In 2004, the Kentucky state senate leadership pushed through the so-called defense of marriage amendment to be on the ballot. Incredibly, state house leadership let it be approved. The result was a tidal wave of voters from the right going to the ballot to vote against gays. Several house seats were lost, and wide Republican margins were rolled up.
For 2010, it’s God and guns, but no gays. It would appear the Kentucky state senate’s Republican leadership has been feeling the heat of losing two out of the last three seats it tried to defend. Surely such a blatantly pandering and unconstitutional proposal is dead on arrival in the state house.
FRANKFORT — A Senate panel split on party lines Wednesday in approving a constitutional amendment that backers called “the 21st Century Bill of Rights.”
Senate Bill 3, sponsored by Sen. Brandon Smith, R-Hazard, would create a new section of the Kentucky Constitution that would say no law could force Kentuckians to participate in health insurance systems, provide abortion services or surrender their firearms. It also would ban laws that prevent posting the Ten Commandments and coal mining.
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Senate President David Williams, R-Burkesville, denied charges by some Democrats that the measure’s true purpose is to attract more evangelical conservatives to the polls this fall in hopes they would support Republican nominees for the U.S. Senate and state legislature.
Why stop there with so many other legal precedents, laws and regulations to be shredded on the way to Sen. Smith’s “New World Order”. Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em anywhere you want; don’t need no stinkin’ drivers license; repeal all that protective order nonsense and bring back the good ole days of the broad form deed.
Sarcasm intended.
The only purposes of the republican party I’ve seen are obsene profits at any expense, debilitation of social values that don’t reflect their ‘norms’ and shifting all social costs to the consumers of the social services.
Now that fellons and corporations are on the same footing with respect to the First Amendment and expressing their collective & individual political will … how long will it be before extortion will be legal, as long as it’s application is restricted to voting.