Ahead of me, a family of Cubans clutched McCain-Palin bumper stickers and made approving noises as someone came down the line passing out "Yes On 2" flyers (in favor of a constitutional amendment outlawing domestic partnership of any kind along with same-sex marriage).
It's time to finish this for all of us who are stuck under the oppressive thumb of civil unions, domestic partnerships, and constitutional amendments that keep us apart from those who are married.
Finally, instead of reading the Constitution in a cramped, legalistic fashion, the justice would "interpret the Constitution to create a partnership between courts and the popular branches," encouraging Congress and the American people to debate and define constitutional values.
Constitutional Commissions, 1987 Constitution.
Gays and lesbians are still persecuted in South Africa, yet it is their constitutional right to marry and form partnerships that are legally bound and recognized.
However, their May 2006 report on the issue, "Equality for All Families" launched by ICCL founder Kader Asmal, called for legislated partnership registration and revisions to the constitutional provisions on civil marriage and the family, to give improved protection to children.
Mr. Fastow, who has invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination, earned $30 million from those partnerships, a fact Mr. Skilling says he did not know.
Obama's support came following Tuesday's passage of a North Carolina constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, civil unions and domestic partnerships, and also Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan signaling support for gay marriage earlier this week.
What is needed is concerted international pressure on Mr Karzai to accede to a constitutional rearrangement that decentralises power away from Kabul.AfPak backtrackThe third element, "partnership with Pakistan", is similarly defective.
First, the agreement clearly envisaged that Northern Ireland's future constitutional arrangements would be worked out in the context of continuing partnership between the north and the south, and between politicians in London and Dublin.
