With the passing of Amendment One, which banned same sex marriage in North Carolina, MissionGathering, as an act of love, bought a billboard (shown above) on Billy Graham Ave.
The passing of Amendment 64 allows you to legally possess and grow up to six marijuana plants in the state of Colorado, making marijuana cultivation a legal, rewarding, and cost effective way of producing marijuana for your own medicinal or recreational uses.
And ultimately, as we have seen with the recent passing of Amendment 1 in North Carolina, policies touted under the banner of assumedly desirable "traditional families" are, and have been for at least five decades, about restricting state support for a range of "deviant" relationships and domesticities from unmarried partnerships to multigenerational and single parent households.
The passing of amendments means that the bill now has to go back to the Commons, which makes the timing extremely tight, and near-impossible if the Commons rejects the amendments and sends it back to their Lordships, and thereby triggers a round of parliamentary ping-pong between the two Houses.
A congressional alliance of libertarians on the right and civil rights advocates on the left came within a whisker – seven votes – of passing an amendment to curb bulk collection of phone records.
The Missouri legislature is, as Ian Urbina reported in The Times on Monday, on the verge of passing an amendment to the State Constitution that would require proof of citizenship from anyone registering to vote.
"If that message reaches the Republican caucus, then I think we have a very, very good chance of passing this amendment.
The passing of the amendment comes amid growing concerns that the center-right government of Mr. Orban, which has a two-thirds majority in Parliament and came to power in 2010, is trying to tighten its grip, including in the judiciary, the media, the central bank, education and even cultural life.
In a television interview shortly after the defeat and the passing of an amendment extending the permitted detention of terrorist suspects to 28 days, he was equally defiant, saying that "the country will think that Parliament has behaved in a deeply irresponsible way".
My colleague Dan Bilefsky, reporting from Budapest, wrote on Monday: The passing of the amendment comes amid growing concerns that the center-right government of Mr. Orban, which has a two-thirds majority in Parliament and came to power in 2010, is trying to tighten its grip, including in the judiciary, the media, the central bank, education and even cultural life.
The mysterious "Don't Share This" button may be in preparation for the passing of this amendment, even though it seems to assert the VPPA more than fight it.
