08-24-2004, 05:33 AM
Laws and rights, aye, tender issues. "Rites" which marriage started as: do they need a Prohibition like ammendment? Is marriage a right or a rite? Or both? Or a convention? Pete's link to the law tangle shows the answer is "yes" and "sort of" and "gawd what a mess we have made of this!"
The Equal Rights Amendment (which if passed would have required young ladies as well as young men to register for selective service . . .) ran up the flag pole and failed under a very long and hard fought process as a referendum.
I do not believe that the Constitutional Amendment approach to "solving" the current disagreemtns would, or will, succeed. Why? See a few of my comments to Pete farther up, but societal norms and attitudes are changing. While there certainly is a loud reaction contra in some quarters, I am willing to gamble that when put to the test, a ban amendment would not get the referendum it needs.
I'd bet a quart of Oban scotch and a case of Guinness. Puttin' my money where my mouth is.
Your citing the Prohibition as an example of a bad idea in progress is a most apropos.
Occhi
The Equal Rights Amendment (which if passed would have required young ladies as well as young men to register for selective service . . .) ran up the flag pole and failed under a very long and hard fought process as a referendum.
I do not believe that the Constitutional Amendment approach to "solving" the current disagreemtns would, or will, succeed. Why? See a few of my comments to Pete farther up, but societal norms and attitudes are changing. While there certainly is a loud reaction contra in some quarters, I am willing to gamble that when put to the test, a ban amendment would not get the referendum it needs.
I'd bet a quart of Oban scotch and a case of Guinness. Puttin' my money where my mouth is.
Your citing the Prohibition as an example of a bad idea in progress is a most apropos.
Occhi
Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the Men 'O War!
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete
In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete