IN Lawmakers to Wait 12 Months to Write Gay Marriage Into Constitution
By: Michael C. Fehn
Updated: February 7, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana's Republican House and Senate leaders will wait a year before they take up an effort to write the state's gay marriage ban into the constitution.
House Speaker Brian Bosma and Senate President Pro Tem David Long said Thursday that their respective caucuses decided the issue should wait until the 2014 session.
Long and Bosma have said they are apprehensive of taking on the issue before the Supreme Court rules on related cases this summer. Social conservatives in the House and Senate had pressed them to tackle the issue this year.
Lawmakers approved the constitutional ban in 2011 but must approve it again before the end of next year in order to amend it into the constitution. The measure would then go on a ballot to give voters final say.
House Speaker Brian Bosma and Senate President Pro Tem David Long said Thursday that their respective caucuses decided the issue should wait until the 2014 session.
Long and Bosma have said they are apprehensive of taking on the issue before the Supreme Court rules on related cases this summer. Social conservatives in the House and Senate had pressed them to tackle the issue this year.
Lawmakers approved the constitutional ban in 2011 but must approve it again before the end of next year in order to amend it into the constitution. The measure would then go on a ballot to give voters final say.
Comments
Can someone tell me why GOVERNMENT, a bumbling, often mean organization that's not always looking out for people (but big money) making such decisions for us?
Brian F.
February 8, 2013 at 4:59 am
