Name the Amendment - Voting Time - LAST CALL
By: Eric
Published On: 7/28/2006 10:25:07 AM
Last Friday I called for suggestions of a proper name for the Marshall/Newman Amendment. Many fine suggestions were made, as well as a reference to the Blogging the Amendment site which had even more ideas.
I counted 58 suggestions in all. Well, that's a bit much for a vote, so I chopped it down to six. Plus I left in the option of Marshall/Newman for those who don't think it needs a new name. Sorry for all those great suggestions that were left out, but it had to be cut down. Otherwise we'd have one of those California Recall Election style ballots.
But for everyone's viewing pleasure, here is the full list:
- Bob Marshall Knows More About Who You Should Marry Than You Do Amendment
- Pro Domestic Abuse Amendment
- The Anti-Marriage Amendment
- Marriage Amendment That Keeps on Growing and Growing and Growing Amendment
- After the Segregationists Lost the Civil Rights Movement in the 60s We in the South Need Someone New To Oppress Amendment
- Return Of Pink Triangles Amendment
- God Hates Fags Amendment
- The Hate Amendment
- Second-Class Citizenship Amendment
- Anti-Marriage Plus So Much More Amendment
- Against Marriage Amendment
- wife beaters' Amendment
- We're hiding the real issues Amendment
- we're protecting your children from the real world Amendment
- hey-it's an election year Amendment
- Pat Robertson paid us off Amendment
- Listen, we can't win the war on terror with gays getting married Amendment
- Nothing to see here...move along Amendment
- Pro-AIDS Amendment
- Let Them Die For Their Sins Amendment
- Civil Rights Ain't For Everyone Amendment
- I Support Oppression Amendment
- Taxation without Equality Amendment
- The Anti-Single People Amendment
- The Special Rights for Heterosexuals Amendment
- The We Want to be Alabama Amendment
- The My Family is Better Than Your Family Amendment
- The Undo the Enlightenment Amendment
- Complementary Parts of the Whole Human Organism Amendment
- Anti-homosexual Amendment
- The Unequal Rights Amendment
- Gay-bashing Amendment
- Marriage prohibition Amendment
- First they came for the unmarried Amendment
- Victorian prudence Amendment
- Some families deserve special rights Amendment
- Some families are better than others Amendment
- My family is better than yours Amendment
- Ten accidental babies are better than one intentional baby Amendment
- The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it Amendment
- It+óGé¼Gäós the Bill of Prohibitions, not rights Amendment
- Dr. Dobson stamp of approval Amendment
- No promo homo Amendment
- Sex makes babies Amendment
- Heterosexual sex is sacred Amendment
- God+óGé¼Gäós design Amendment
- Inalienable right? What+óGé¼Gäós that? Amendment
- Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Just kidding Amendment
- Ban on unmarried relationships Amendment
- Ban on ALL legal recognition of unmarried relationships Amendment
- The Family Discrimination Amendment
- Scriptural Slippery Slope Amendment
- The Amendment to Punish the Unmarried Amendment
- Hetero-Challenged Atonement Amendment
- Hetero-Challenged Relationship Limitation Amendment
- Love has nothing to do with Marriage Amendment
- Unmarried Oppression Amendment
Comments
My personal fave: (phriendlyjaime - 7/28/2006 10:58:27 AM)
The Bible says it, I believe it, that settles it Amendment
Yep. Unfortunately, as we can see with the Israel/Lebanon situation-that is America's problem.
"But, but...JESUS is coming, Jesus is coming, and he wants a pick up truck, a confederate flag, and dinner at the Olive Garden!!!! He loves those breadsticks, and they're FREE!"
Or even further... (seveneasypeaces - 7/28/2006 11:44:06 AM)
The Bible Told Me NOT To Amendment
I particularly like
Love has nothing to do with Marriage Amendment!!
Please re-elect absentee Senator Allen amendment (snolan - 7/28/2006 5:26:52 PM)
We missed the opportunity to call this what it really is, a thinly veiled attempt to drum up support for the outgoing loser we have as a senator right now!
Happy dance!
Wrong-wing Procreation Nation Amendment (KathyinBlacksburg - 8/2/2006 10:13:33 AM)
If you can stand another recommendation, here's mine: The Wrong-wing Procreation Nation Amendment: If you can't procreate, you can't mate.
Note: I got this idea from a newsletter from NOW, in which Kim Gandy makes the case that this is becoming a "Procreation Nation." It seems one line of argument is that the courts have ruled that lawmakers can involve themselves in procreation-controlling legislation. This, of course, Conservative GOPhers interpret as making it right to intrude, thus making them the WRONG-wing.
Naming the Amendment (VoteNOVa - 8/2/2006 10:24:54 AM)
The Pandora's Box Amendment
The Read it ALL Before You Vote Amendment
The Unintended Consequences Amendment
The Let the Government into Our Homes and Private Lives Amendment
It's "hate" pure and simple (beachydem - 8/2/2006 11:25:53 AM)
Hate Ammendment works for me :)
Soft Sell might work better. (loboforestal - 8/2/2006 11:40:29 AM)
The over the top rhetoric in the proposed amendment labels and many of the posts here will backfire. The marginal voter is a middle class, hardworking heterosexual that does see something special in traditional marriage and personally knows that "sex does make babies" as one proposed label espouses. Making fun of the bible and heterosexuality is likely not going to bring out the massive hoards of suburban nuclear families that determine elections. Waving gay flags with bathroom characters holding hands (as seen on the lead image for this story) is not going to win for the "no" vote.
A better tack might be this : "Look, society is changing, one day there might be a majority of people that's willing to give this 'partnership' thing a try and preventing the majority from legislating such possible reform is shortsighted".
Name the amendment (hereinva - 8/2/2006 1:21:26 PM)
Sorry I picked this up late...kudos to all the suggested name entries..heres one more (based on the recently released poll)
The "We Hope You Don't Read the Second Paragraph" Amendment..
How about (Newport News Dem - 8/2/2006 1:41:35 PM)
a little word play and juxtaposition
The Marshall/Newman becomes the
“The no man “Shallmar/Newman†amendmentâ€Â!
Majority Approve the Amendment (Teddy - 8/2/2006 4:14:17 PM)
It is stunning and discouraging to read that recent polls show the majority of Virginia voters actually approve of the so-called "marriage amendment." We have a pretty heavy task in explaining that it is NOT an amendment that will "save" traditional he-plus-she wedded bliss, but an amendment with terrible unintended consequences. Not to mention the bizzarre insertion into a fundamental document like the Constitution of what is essentially an attempt to limit rights, which goes against Virginia's long history of protecting and advancing personal liberties.
Most voters appear to believe the amendment is necessary because some awful "liberal activist" judge some time in the indefinite future will rule against the already existing law defining marriage as being solely between 1 man and 1 woman. Talk about scare tactics. Well, they have to be dis-abused of that conviction. Good luck.
Mason-Dixon poll is flawed (Vivian J. Paige - 8/2/2006 9:51:15 PM)
I assume you are referring to the Mason-Dixon poll. They only polled on the first part of the amendment, not the entire thing. The Commonwealth Coalition released its poll numbers last week - and they did poll on the entire amendment.
That poll shows support at under 50%.
But we still have a lot of work to do. We need to make sure that everybody reads the entire amendment and then VoteNo!
Between the poles (seveneasypeaces - 8/3/2006 12:48:40 AM)
That's the thing about polls. They should also show the exact question people answered. For a poll to carry any weight it should always tell you what people were asked, i.e.,what they understood.
The only poll that is without subjectivity is the exit poll but bush has pretty much done away with that one (too accurate for his world). However, it is a clear cut poll, what you just DID, not what you might do.
Maybe we need to soundbyte the amendment.
What's love got to do, got to do with it
RE: Vote time. (JPTERP - 8/2/2006 4:27:54 PM)
I vote for the "Gay Bashing Ammendment" -- b/c that's exactly what the Marshall/Newman ammendment is.
Btw, I know of quite a few people who support the first sentence of the ammendment. They have no problem with giving a symbolic nod to the traditional view of marriage.
However, they also don't like to see any minority group being targetted for a "beat down" and they favor civil unions for gay couples.
This ammendment is pure idiocy; and the intent is clearly malicious. There's no reason to get too cute with this. Let's call things by their proper name.
Reading is Fundamental (GinterParked - 8/2/2006 10:30:51 PM)
The CC poll showed that support for the amendment dropped precipitously when it was simply read to respondents. At five points down with no spin attached, based on a simple exercise in second-grade erudition, I'm optimistic.
Naming is important, but I think it's more important to avoid our opponents' name than it is to find one that we'll stick to.
This *is not* a marriage amendment. Call it what you will - and perhaps it's best to call it many things - but don't call it that.
I'll certainly never advocate a scheme to deliberately confuse voters, but a multitude of names perhaps will generate curiosity, which will cause more voters to read. And, each read brings us closer to success.