Federal anti-marriage amendment, cont'd.

[mmcirvin]

The sloppiness of the proposed Federal Marriage Amendment, which I have mocked previously, is explained in this Washington Post article (pity about the newly onerous site registration; Jack Balkin gives a pithy summary). It seems that the people who drafted it (a group that included Robert Bork) really weren't trying very hard to write something that made sense.

I'm also opposed to all of the various proposed constitutional amendments that came up in the Massachusetts convention on the subject (well, except for the Barrios one, which is merely superfluous, or ought to be). But all of them, even Finneran's, were better than the draft FMA. Meanwhile, Governor Romney is still trying to square the circle.

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[cheryln.livejournal.com]

The Post online is an example of many, many worst practices: detailed required registration [I gave them an address that was in fact mine once, albeit ten years ago]; ubiquitous pop-ups; breaking not-very-long stories into multiple pages so as to include more ads; use of ads with animations, sounds, scrolling, etc.

It's almost too bad that their content is, y'know, almost worth it.

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[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Pop-ups are, at least, manageable by a good browser. Also, many sites that require registration work with cipher/cipher, i've been told. Breaking stories into multiple pages is retarded, though.