Bad Amendment
Oct. 6th, 2006 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
margoeveQuestion #1 on the VA ballot in November:
Why you should vote NO:
This steps way over the line and discriminates against ANYONE who is not married. The wording is so vague that it goes far beyond prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and intrudes upon the rights of opposite-sex unmarried couples, housemates, or platonic friends.
As someone who has been in a long term, unmarried, opposite sex relationship, the wording of this terrifies me. Our Wills could be nullified by this. Property agreements voided. Any legal agreement we have that would give anything that the state would grant through marriage could be considered null and void in Virginia.
More information: here.
"That only a union between one man and one woman may be a marriage valid in or recognized by this Commonwealth and its political subdivisions.
This Commonwealth and its political subdivisions shall not create or recognize a legal status for relationships of unmarried individuals that intends to approximate the design, qualities, significance, or effects of marriage. Nor shall this Commonwealth or its political subdivisions create or recognize another union, partnership, or other legal status to which is assigned the rights, benefits, obligations, qualities, or effects of marriage."
Why you should vote NO:
This steps way over the line and discriminates against ANYONE who is not married. The wording is so vague that it goes far beyond prohibiting same-sex couples from marrying and intrudes upon the rights of opposite-sex unmarried couples, housemates, or platonic friends.
As someone who has been in a long term, unmarried, opposite sex relationship, the wording of this terrifies me. Our Wills could be nullified by this. Property agreements voided. Any legal agreement we have that would give anything that the state would grant through marriage could be considered null and void in Virginia.
More information: here.
