I spoke too soon. After the measure was first defeated, Arizona’s state senate has approved the anti–same-sex-marriage amendment.
From the Arizona Republic:
In the final hours of one of the longest state legislative sessions on record, state Senators approved a measure sending a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage to the fall ballot.
Some time-consuming politicking appears to have been involved.
The long-anticipated vote on the measure followed hours of angry, raucous debate, in which the legislative rule book was used as a weapon to both stall the vote and cut short debate. Senators on both sides of the aisle and the issue lamented a melt-down in the higher chamber, as most of the day’s work was scrapped so that the marriage amendment could be voted on while key senators were present.
So the Senate spent the last few hours of its session sending something for voter approval that’s already been decided…and even members think the time could have been better spent. Lovely.
Okay, you folks in Arizona, you know what you have to do.
(Via Pandagon.)