tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post8294341334389045750..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-46807944030885018662007-04-13T10:27:00.000-05:002007-04-13T10:27:00.000-05:00WE need more of those 250,000 companies to step forward, along with the universities to grow up and face these people down. <BR/><BR/>This is round one of the 2007-08 General Assembly, and Brandt and Boz have already shown that they intend to bully even our biggest employers when they dare to disagree with the WingNut agenda. <BR/><BR/>And the worst thing we can have would be a Clark, Smith, Miller klaque who is able to change their words to make them sound less "mean". I'd rather face down a mean loud-mouthed open bigot, than one who sells his snake oil in a suit and a smile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-38670098451692113802007-04-13T09:18:00.000-05:002007-04-13T09:18:00.000-05:00They did, in fact, articulate that they wanted to prevent civil unions. For quite some time, Eric Miller added "and civil unions" when he was speaking or writing about the amendment. He did this every time, without fail.<BR/><BR/>When he realized that saying that was not helping his cause, he stopped. But nothing whatsoever changed in the intent.<BR/><BR/>SJR-7, with its now-infamous "Part B," was intentionally and undeniably crafted to prevent and sort of civil unions, or for that matter, any legal recognition whatsoever of same-sex relationships. It was written to forever tie the hands of the same legislature that Hershman, Turner, and Bosma so poorly serve.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-64465996850574006322007-04-13T08:50:00.000-05:002007-04-13T08:50:00.000-05:00It seems to me that the whole point of the 2nd sentence of SJR7 was to prohibit absolutely any form of civil unions for lesbians or gays that might be devised in the future in Indiana. The proponents of SJR7 were too cowardly to admit their mean-spirited real purpose -- their evasions cost them their prize (if only temporarily).Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-18821414767523025432007-04-13T08:22:00.000-05:002007-04-13T08:22:00.000-05:00Tully correctly describes describes SJR7 as mean-spirited. From all I've read and heard,Turner, Hershman, Miller, Clark, Smith are truly mean people and SJR7 is a reflection of their inherent cruelty. The worst thing is, they are imposing their cruelty and meanness in the name of God. Surely, there is a special Hell for people who harm others in the name of religion but fail to follow the lesson Jesus taught us in his Sermon on the Mount: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-62853660283595147092007-04-13T07:11:00.000-05:002007-04-13T07:11:00.000-05:00One Indiana Eli Lilly plant alone probably has more employees than the entire population of Gas City !Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/14214029150233485312noreply@blogger.com