Nevada governor vetoes domestic partner bill: claims equal rights are subject to majority rule.

CARSON CITY — As he promised, Gov. Jim Gibbons today vetoed the bill to allow same- and opposite-sex couples to become legal domestic partners with almost all the rights and privileges of married couples.

In his veto message, Gibbons said he rejected Senate Bill 283 because it is contrary to the wishes of Nevada voters who in 2002 approved the Protection of Marriage constitutional amendment. That amendment stipulates a marriage may be between only a man and a woman.

Sen. David Parks, D-Las Vegas, the bill’s sponsor, now will try to muster enough votes in the Legislature to override the veto. The bill passed the Senate 12-9 and the Assembly 26-14, two votes short of the two-thirds needed to override a veto.

Under the bill, a couple would pay a fee to the secretary of state to secure a domestic partnership contract entitling them to make will, inheritance, health care, funeral and other decisions now made by spouses in marriages. But the bill specifies that a domestic partnership is not a marriage as defined by the Protection of Marriage amendment passed by more than two-thirds of voters in 2002.

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send the Governor an e-mail telling him that we won't be attending the wedding (one of my sons is gay)
because obviously they don't want to extend the same consideration to my son that they would extend to my nephew.

Some people say.

Say it isn't so.

If 'majority rule' was the law of the land, there would still be vast swaths of this country still subject to Jim Crow - where the minority would be disenfranchised of even the right to vote.

When minority views are ignored at the expense of the majority view, our system becomes a tyranny of the majority. The interests of the majority are placed so far above those of minorities that it may as well be a dictatorship. He's ignoring a tenet of law that's been around at least since Plato's Republic.

No, that's religion. You know, something you choose, not something you're born.

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