A little silver lining this evening. Florida probably will have a Marriage Protection Act on ballot in 08.
Posted by: Neocon in 2008 Race, Conservatism, Domestic, Republicans(Via Conservative Outpost) Florida will likely have a Marriage Protection Amendment on the ballot in 2008.
The Florida Division of Elections announced over the weekend that it certified 649,346 signatures seeking to place the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment on the state’s Nov. 4 ballot. Conservative activists collected 92,000 signatures in the last two weeks leading up to the Feb. 1 deadline to ensure they exceeded the 611,099 needed to place the measure on the ballot.
If the amendment passes, Florida would recognize marriage as “the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife,” and “no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.” The latter provision would protect Florida from having to recognize out of state same-sex marriage licenses.
There were some roadbumps along the way to getting the required number of signatures, but the sponsor of this effort, , thinks that they’ve got it locked up this time by collecting an extra 90,000 votes. The significance of a Marriage Protection Amendment is that it will give social conservatives an extra kick in the rear to get out to the polls on November 4th. This could be very helpful if the Republican candidate turns out to be someone like -gag- McCain. Florida is always important.
Granted, it will certainly irk the social conservatives to be relegated once again to a ‘we like you when we need you’ caste of voters, but isn’t that every leg of the conservative stool these days? At least McCain has been consistently pro-life insofar as I know.
