Watch the new ad, “Emergency” …
This is exactly what voters need to see. This amendment isn’t about “marriage” at all, it’s about making sure that people who have committed to taking care of each other aren’t allowed to do that – just because they don’t conform to the immoral desires of an angry minority.
PM makes a good point, though, wishing that there was an ad addressing child support: “After a couple is divorced, custody and child support remain an issue. It looks like to me that if, say, a deadbeat dad refuses to pay support, and gets a court order, he can tell a Virginia court to stuff it.” Whether or not that is likely to be upheld, the amendment certainly is an invitation to those who have partnership obligations in other jurisdictions to come to Virginia to try to get them dissolved. Given the courts’ ruling in the Miller-Jenkins case, that’s exactly what would happen.
The problem is that there are so many horrible ways that this amendment could be put to use, it’s impossible to pick just one.