Arizona Puts Anti-Gay Agenda on Ballot…Again

An anti-gay marriage initiative was passed in the Republican controlled Arizona state senate earlier this month by a very small margin. The initiative would place a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. “Arizona voters rejected a similar measure in 2006,” the Human Rights Campaign noted in a recent press statement, “making Arizona the only state where voters have defeated a marriage amendment at the polls. Arizona statutory law already prohibits marriage by same-sex couples.”

“It is sad and it is disappointing that the Arizona legislature used the final moments of its session to send a divisive, discriminatory measure back to voters this fall,” said Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese.

Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano (D) described the Republican-backed measure as a “prophylactic” amendment that isn’t needed. Napolitano said. “I don’t think the constitutional amendment is necessary. The voters of Arizona will have a chance to decide this. Personally, I’m going to oppose it.”

Read more on this at political affairs.net.

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