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It won’t fly

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It won’t fly
: Daniel Drezner shows why a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage won’t get off the ground. Thank goodness, a constitutional amendment is extremely difficult to enact. Threatening one is usually the last, desperate act of a hopeless movement.

: Update: Chris Geidner fisks the NY Times story that says a poll finds “strong support” for a gay marriage ban. [via Atrios]

2 responses to “It won’t fly”

  1. ....a moment with Easycure Avatar
    ….a moment with Easycure

    You are right of course…..but that doesn’t mean some of the far right won’t continue to try.
    Which gives some of us VRWC members a bad name.
    …..oh, and I started my own blog today and linked to you, since I read you every day. I figured I couldn’t mobblog unless I had a place to mob to.

  2. Thom Avatar
    Thom

    There are three ways to amend the Constitution, 2 of which are extremely difficult, the other much less so. Rather than convening a Constitutional Convention, or having 3/4 of the states and 2/3 of both houses of Congress approve a proposed amendment, proponents of a constitutional amendment need only get 5 justices of the Supreme Court to agree with their position.
    That, in a nutshell, is why the courts are, and always will be, highly politicized.