Reply #66: For those not famliar with the OR battle, it went down like this:

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1. Measure 36 was put on the ballot, denying gay marriage. It passed.
2. The legislature looked at this, and said to themselves "Huh, that's weird... they *must* have meant that religious marriage can't be forced into churches that don't believe in it, so we need civil laws to protect such contracts between couples."
3. The fundies went batshit, because they thought they could ban all civil contracts they didn't like, and sued.
4. The fundies lost their suit, because the state constitutional amendment only defined *marriage*, not *contracts*.

I love living here.