The procedural defeat of that horrible constitutional amendment is just the beginning. The religious whack jobs that have been pushing it are digging in for a long fight.
I swear to you, reading about the fundamentalist nutcases who are pushing for this makes me realize that there are powerful people out there who are trying to navigate this country toward a theocratic, Talibanesque government where one groups’ religious beliefs become the law of the land.
In the short term, the amendment’s religious backers said they would turn their sights toward referendums at the state level. At least nine states, and possibly as many as 12, will have state constitutional amendments against same-sex marriage on the ballot in elections this summer and fall.
… “I look at this as a 10-year fight. This is Day One,” said Charles W. Colson, a Nixon White House staff member who was convicted in the Watergate scandal and now heads Prison Fellowship Ministries.
