Not as much as this guy does.
Ammon J. Taylor of San Antonio is so vehemently opposed to same-sex marriage that he took the unusual step of forming a federal super PAC to fight it.
The 27-year-old salesman is taking a seldom-tried — some would say improbable — approach. He wants to muster a convention of states to amend the Constitution to enable states to quash the Supreme Court’s June ruling that legalized same-sex marriage.
On July 16, Taylor registered the Restore Marriage PAC with the Federal Election Commission, naming himself president and treasurer. Moving methodically, he opened a bank account, issued a news release, created an Internet presence, and began seeking volunteers and support among fellow conservatives of all creeds.
“Most Americans think that since the Supreme Court decision allowing same-sex marriage, the issue is settled. It is not,” Taylor said when he announced the PAC.
With Congress not acting against same-sex unions, a convention of states “is our only constitutional recourse to save marriage,” he said.
For Taylor, the effort is part of living his Mormon faith. As a boy, he watched his father lead Nebraska’s initiative to define marriage as being between a man and a woman, which passed overwhelmingly in 2000 but was nullified by the court decision.
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Taylor concedes it’s unlikely that enough states could be persuaded to “pass an amendment that would protect and restore marriage nationwide. We do believe we can get 34 states to come together to hold a convention to propose an amendment that allows each state to define for itself.”
With most states under Republican control, he said, “now is the best time ever to return to the states the right to determine key social and economic events that Washington has allowed to run out of control — like balancing the budget, stopping abortion and protecting traditional marriage,” Taylor said.
“How do we put the pressure on Congress to call for an amendment now? The answer is we hold a mock convention,” he said. Taylor hopes to conduct the “People’s Convention” around a July 2016 meeting of lawmakers at the American Legislative Exchange Council in Indianapolis.
A key motivation for Taylor was a Mormon leader’s prophesy that those outside Washington, D.C., would someday save the Constitution.
I’m not going to waste any time on Amman Taylor’s hateful nonsense, which he of course denies is motivated by hate because how could legally classifying millions of people as second-class citizens be anything but loving? The fact that he hopes to put his grand plan in motion at an ALEC conference is…I can’t even. Seriously. What I will do is go off on a brief rant about the difference between prophecy and prophesy, which are not only two different words that have two different pronunciations, they’re even two different kinds of words. Prophecy is a noun. It is the work product of a prophet. Prophesy is a verb. It is the action taken by a prophet to produce a prophecy. I don’t know if I blame the reporter or the copy editor (if they still have them at newspapers these days) more for this annoying and annoyingly common error, but either way, please get this right. It makes me twitch like Herbert Lom in the Pink Panther movies when I see “prophesy” used as a noun. You don’t want to do that to me, do you? Thanks.