Great article in the TU today on page D-1, or the link below. 

http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/030208/lif_252535154.shtml [1]

What I can't figure out is why the government is involved in this. It seems pretty straight forward to me. Two people want to get married, they fill out the proper paperwork and a JP says you are married.

Now if a church wants to control it that is their problem. I always thought that discrimination was one of the worst forms of abuse and was pretty much illegal.

I say pretty much because obviously it depends on whose sensibilities you are hurting. I guess this must be another case of 'equal but different'. It is unfortunate that this amendment made the ballot when the HTD amendment didn't.

To me the really unfortunate part is that I give this fiasco a 90% chance of getting passed. I can see the legal wrangling and law suits already.

But then again, it may be a good thing that it did make the ballot. Perhaps the Florida Supreme Court will be smart enough to see this for what is: state sponsored discrimination, declare it unconstitutional and force the state to recognize any marriage.

Mike Heemer