Endorsement: No on 2
Progressive Pensacola urges voters to vote NO on Amendment 2, also known as the “Florida Marriage Protection Amendment”, on the general election ballot.
The text of the proposed amendment:
Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.
I’m going to cut through all the BS. Same-sex marriage is already prohibited in Florida by F.S. 741.212 and F.S. 741.04. This amendment was engineered by the Republican Party to drive conservative turnout to the polls. This measure is, very simply, legislative bigotry.
The actual effects of this amendment are unclear, but similar amendments passed in other states have been used to deprive both heterosexual and homosexual couples of domestic partnership benefits, and rights such as hospital visitation.
The League of Women Voters also opposes this amendment.
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Don’t expect to get the marriage tax penalty either. That has surely encouraged two singles living together to marry.