Ok, I want ya'll to look at this amendment and forget your preconceived notions about it. Just read the language of the amendment.

Sec. 32. (a) Marriage in this state shall consist only of the union of one man and one woman.
(b) This state or a political subdivision of this state may not create or recognize any legal status identical or similar to marriage.

What does this amendment to the state constitution say?

Did you answer the above?

We're not voting on the analysis. We're not voting on the rhetoric. We're voting on the above language.

And I think that there's a strong, strong argument that the legislature in one fell swoop defined marriage in section (a) and then eliminated marriage in section (b).

Do you, reading the language above, come to the same conclusion?

Do you, reading the language above, come away with a strong desire to strangle the legislature that can draft so poorly?

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