ARIZONA ATTORNEY GENERAL TOM HORNE BACK OFF ON THE BISBEE VOTE FOR SAME SEX CIVIL UNIONS

Bisbee, Arizona- City Council has not defiled the U.S. Constitution by voting for same sex civil unions.

Front Row: Bisbee City Council member Anna Cline, Mayor Adriana Badal

 and Council member Shirley Doughty. Back Row: Council

members David Smith, Ken Budge, Ransom Burke and Eugene Conners. 

(Photo from cityofbisbee.com)

Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne has said the ordinance would be unconstitutional, and has promised to go to court to block it. YOU ARE DEAD WRONG..

MARRIAGE, Civil Union same sex or otherwise IS NOT in the Constitution.

The ordinance said the city of about 5,600 people wants to end “discriminatory practices against members of the lesbian, bisexual, gay and transgender community” so that couples could have lasting and meaningful relationships regardless of sexual orientation.

The measure allows same-sex couples to go to City Hall and pay $76 — the same cost of a marriage license in Cochise County — to enter into a civil union, The Sierra Vista Herald reported. The city clerk would then issue the couple a certificate of the civil union.

Earlier Tuesday, Bisbee City Attorney John MacKinnon said the ordinance’s impact would only apply to things within the city’s control. That includes city personnel policies and the city cemetery, he said. Others will decide how the ordinance might apply to things outside the city’s direct control, such as the hospital, he said.

“We can’t as a small jurisdiction in southeastern Arizona change everything in Arizona,” he said before the meeting.

Marriage

In the absence of an amendment to the Constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman only, marriage is not mentioned in the Constitution at any point. More information is available on the Marriage Topic Page.

Related: Things that are not in the Constitution: Marriage, Immigration, God