tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8177497989327496861..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-64648051400758497892008-05-08T07:56:00.000-05:002008-05-08T07:56:00.000-05:00As Doug Masson and others have pointed out, Indiana courts give little, in any weight, to what proponents of measures claimed before enactment, when interpreting them afterwards. So the possibility of successful "bait and switch" by Clark, Miller, Smith et al remains very much alive in the future. Lawmakers considering such proposals need to be constantly reminded of this, and if they intend that whatever they may have before them in the future is to mean what proponents say it means, they should find a way to say that in the text of an amendment itself. Then the courts would have to take them at their word.Don Sherfickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15239859126284734712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-72626735588238577642008-05-07T22:41:00.000-05:002008-05-07T22:41:00.000-05:00All of them - Micah Clark, Eric Miller, and the rest of their evangelical jihadists knew it would have these consequences. This is one of the best political tactics a faction can employ - to mask the effect of what they are passing until it is firmly embedding in the Constitution.POPAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00558836541249077077noreply@blogger.com