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Religious Right Seeks Unprecedented Constitutional Convention To Ban Gay Marriage Without Congress
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jun 15, 2006 05:58pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| News Date | Thursday, June 15, 2006 04:40:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Earlier this month, efforts to ban gay marriage by amending the Constitution failed badly in Senate. Now the religious right is considering appealing to state legislatures to call a Constitutional Convention under an obscure provision of Article 5 that would allow amendments to the Constitution without congressional approval.
Meeting after the big failure at the offices of the social-conservative Family Research Council, the top leaders of the marriage movement — Catholic, Protestant and Mormon leaders among others — discussed the possibility of an unprecedented Constitutional Convention. Two-thirds (34) of the state legislatures would have to call for such a convention — which could be done only with great difficulty. Even then, no one knows what such a convention would look like or what sort of amendments could result from it. |
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