Another thing about a Marriage Amendment

I mentioned before "separate but equal," and how in my opinion that's exactly what civil unions are. There's something else i wanted to mention.

the Religious-Right in CA is attempting to gather signatures to put a measure on the November ballot. The measure would be to amend the CA state constitution to forbid gay marriage. Bush, Rove, et. al. tried to do similar things last election cycle, and succeeded in several states, though not the US Constitution itself.

Discrimination exists in our founding documents, that can't be denied. But most of it has been fixed.

Whats that you say? Discrimination in the Constitution? noooo!

Article 1, Section 2:
"...according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons." (bolding mine)

This, of course, was changed by the 14th amendment, but that took the civil war to happen. It was ratified in 1868.

I'm not sure exactly what my point is there, but i know i have one. Discrimination has no place in the laws of any society, and it certainly shouldn't be enshrined in any Constitution, be they Sate or Federal.