Project Overview

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3)   Create new Law:

The third piece of this action plan is to do an end-run on the fundamentalist Christians by creating a completely new and separate set of secular laws.   The plan is to create  a separate, independent  law for each right being demanded.   

We are not talking about a rehash of an old, obsolete, one-size-fits-all,  take-all-or-nothing,  set of marriage and family rules set up by lawyers and for lawyers.   The "Legal Human Rights Package."  is  designed to be quite different.   The process is outlined below:  

a)    Examine the marriage and family laws by which heterosexuals agree to be bound when they sign a marriage license.   (The signers are agreeing to be bound by a huge set of government/lawyer-created laws -- laws about which they know nothing.)  

b)    Take all the desirable aspects from existing marriage codes and put them one by one  into a separate packages.   Create each piece as a separate and distinct law that stands by itself.   For convenience, these laws will ( in this proposal and for the present cycle) be collectively called the "Legal Human Rights Package."

c)     Because marriage and family laws were written by lawyers, to the advantage of lawyers, and to serve lawyers, and to make money for lawyers, carefully examine the laws you want and leave out anything that does not serve the partners, themselves.

d)    Now that we have at lease a partial  list of clear specific, tangible, doable objectives, decide which specific, proposed law to start with.

d)   Look for the opposition's weakest point.   Find something: 1) that will trigger strong emotional support, 2) that will generate strong support and/or participation from the heterosexual community, and 3)  something that will not cost anybody any money.   

Hospital visitation rights are probably the best place to start.   Why?   Because millions of heterosexual couples who are living together but are not legally married would also like to have this right.

e)    Draft legislation granting this right to all who choose to sign up for it,  and then go all out to get the law passed in every local, state and federal legislature.   Write the law in simple, direct, straight forward, easy-to-read, and easy-to-understand understand language.  Use short sentences.  Write the entire law with as few words as possible.   AVOID LEGALESE!  

Intention is another important factor that is absent in the present laws.   Each law shall have  two equally powerful parts  --  the letter of those rules and the intention behind that stated rules.   A violation of a rule's intention shall be equal to a violation of the letter of that rule.   

Avoid allowing anything that is not directly related to the letter and intention of a particular law to be attached to it.   As part of the law add a sentence that says, any amendment attached to this bill that is not germane (directly related)  to the letter and intention of this legislation shall cause the proposed amendment to the bill to become null and void.  

This proposed law gives everybody, gays, lesbians, heterosexual, the young, the old, including the widowed elderly, a common ground to stand on.   Who in their right mind is going to oppose a secular law allowing your widowed  grandmother to determine who has the right to visit her in the hospital?

f)    Once hospital visitation rights become law, then select the next easiest-to-pass aspect and repeat the process.   Propose laws that make no reference to the word marriage.   Propose laws that in essence say that what two people do in their private lives is their own business.   Address only the legal rights issues.

Present-day marriage contracts are all-or-nothing packages.  The are written in legalese by lawyers and for lawyers.   This is a major down-side for many people.   On the other hand, our new approach will allow people the option of choosing which aspects of the Legal Human Rights Package  that they want to have for themselves and it will allow them to reject all the parts that they don't want.