Action Wisconsin: Blasts Assembly Vote to Write Discrimination into State Constitution
3/5/2004
Statement by Action Wisconsin Executive Director, Christopher Ott
For Immediate Release:
Contact: Joshua Freker, 608.441.0143
Madison – “Today, a majority of the Wisconsin Assembly voted to approve one of the harshest antigay measures in the country. AJR 66 would ban marriage, civil unions, or any other comprehensive legal rights for lesbian and gay couples. Effectively, it would write a group of citizens out of the Wisconsin Constitution.
“The amendment would prevent future legislators from extending any measure of equal treatment to lesbian and gay couples and their children. It could only be overturned by a federal court or by another state constitutional amendment.