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In a 5-4 decision, the United States Supreme Court has ruled that states can not prevent same-sex couples from marrying and must recognize their marriages from other states. In the majority opinion by Justice Kennedy it is stated:
The Court, in this decision, holds same-sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all States. It follows that the Court also must hold—and it now does hold—that there is no lawful basis for a State to refuse to recognize a lawful same-sex marriage performed in another State on the ground of its same-sex character.
...and:
It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves. Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization's oldest institutions. They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed. It is so ordered.
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(Score: 2) by jmorris on Friday June 26 2015, @11:17PM
They can not be hijacked.
And the Articles of Confederation were perpetual... right up until they weren't. In point of fact a Convention can do whatever it likes. The protection is that all they can do is produce proposed Amendments which still require the same supermajority of the States to ratify. And really, it takes a really large majority; if any proposal passes that muster it probably should become law even if it is replacing the whole thing with a dictator for life or outright Communism. If you can get that many State legislatures to sign off (and not get strung up by outraged Citizens) then just do it and be damned by the consequences. Stupidity needs to hurt and if We the People are really hellbent on being stupid we should get it, good and hard.
So I'm all in favor of a Convention. We are already on the Highway to Hell and Washington just keeps stomping the accelerator harder so it is time to try things even if they are risky.