Some good news from Indianapolis this evening:
A proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriages in Indiana likely was dealt a fatal blow today when a key lawmaker said he would not give the issue a hearing.
Rep. Scott Pelath, D-Michigan City, who is chairman of the House Rules and Legislative Procedure Committee, said today that the most urgent issue facing the state is property taxes, not same-sex marriage, which already is banned by Indiana law.
So in other words, Pelath doesn't think it's a good use of resources for the state legislature to spend time and money worrying about a constitutional amendment to ban something that is already illegal.
It's pathetic that something so commonsensical is controversial.
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