Tony Perkins hasn't a clue concerning how Indiana courts go about deciding what a constitutional provision means. He says you should talk to the authors of the proposed amendment to find out, and that's what courts typically take into consideration. Maybe in some states as well as the federal government, but there is very strong precedent in Indiana for the proposition that what this or that sponsor or legislator, either pro or con, says about intent is given almost zero weight. It's what the judges believe the words standing my themselves reasonably mean.

Yes, the judges. The very "unelected activist ones", in this case, those clever black-robed devils on the Indiana Supreme Court that Tony and other constantly berating as subverting God, Country, Motherhood, and an occasionall apple pie for good measure. What is wrong with this picture?

I'll give you three guesses and the first two are worth about as much as Tony's in-depth knowledge of Indiana judicial precedents.

Don't be reassured by any comments from the Religious Reich that "it's just like Kentucky's DOMA." Under our DOMA, marriages can be dissolved by county clerks or judges if they appear to be same sex, and the law can be used to abrogate "marriages" created by crossing contractual agreements (crossing wills, living wills, durable powers of attorney, and co-owned corporations, for instance). Until Virginia upped the ante a couple of years ago, we had the worst DOMA in the country. Fortunately, to our knowledge, it has been little enforced, if at all.

By the way, domestic partner bennies are still in place at UL and UK, but we fully expect that they'll be attacked again, although they may not have time in this year's 30 day session. After all, life liberty and property are never safe when our legislature is in session......

Don't let the Reichers win, for goodness' sake!

That crazy guy. The amendments authors have no clue how it's going to be interpreted and they don't care just yet. But if it gets passed, rest assured that they'll be trying to use it to stop gay people from so much as setting foot in indiana.