Will Texas ban marriage?

Proposition 2, maybe you've heard of it, will be voted on Nov. 8th, and if ratified by the citizens of Texas, there will be a new Texas Constitutional Amendment concerning the definition of marriage.

"The constitutional amendment providing that marriage in this state consists only of the union of one man and one woman and prohibiting this state or a political subdivision of this state from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage."

There are two issues raised by this. For starters there is the phrase "consists only of the union of one man and one woman," this is troublesome for the obvious civil rights violation, as well, it is a violation of the "anti-establishment clause" of the US constitution. But, I'll put those easily made arguments on hold for now, because the other interesting thing about the wording of the proposed amendment is "prohibiting this state... from creating or recognizing any legal status identical or similar to marriage."

So this amendment defines what a marriage is, between a man and woman, and then goes on to say that a marriage will have no legal status. Truly unprecedented. So the real question here is, was this an accident on the part of state legislators? Surely someone would have noticed that marriages, including their own marriages would no longer hold any legal standing. Or was this on purpose? Perhaps, Texas legislators are ingenious. They have tried to create an amendment that would make all things equal concerning marriage, and knowing that Texas is mostly made up of redneck morons, who only read the paper if its talking about NASCAR or high school football, and would therefore support the new amendment because, on the surface it appeared to be "anti-homo."

So are Texas Legislators geniuses or idiots? Will the people of Texas vote to make marriage obsolete? Tune in Nov. 8th to find out who the real idiots are.