- published: 11 Nov 2013
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Question 6 (colloquially called the Maryland same-sex marriage referendum) is a referendum that appeared on the general election ballot for the U.S. state of Maryland to allow voters to approve or reject the Civil Marriage Protection Act—a bill legalizing same-sex marriage passed by the General Assembly in 2012. The referendum was approved by 52.4% of voters on November 6, 2012 and thereafter went into effect on January 1, 2013.
The ballot measure read as follows:
The choices read as follows:
The Civil Marriage Protection Act was passed by the Maryland General Assembly in February 2012 and signed on March 1, 2012, by Governor Martin O'Malley. The Maryland House of Delegates approved the bill by a 72–67 vote, and the Maryland Senate approved the bill by a vote of 25–22. Sections 2, 3 and 4 of the bill were included to ensure that religious leaders, religiously-controlled institutions, and their programs are legally protected from being required to officiate or provide facilities for a same-sex marriage or couple if they refuse.
A question is a linguistic expression used to make a request for information, or the request made using such an expression. The information requested should be provided in the form of an answer.
Questions have developed a range of uses that go beyond the simple eliciting of information from another party. Rhetorical questions, for example, are used to make a point, and are not expected to be answered. Many languages have special grammatical forms for questions (for example, in the English sentence "Are you happy?", the inversion of the subject you and the verb are shows it to be a question rather than a statement). However questions can also be asked without using these interrogative grammatical structures – for example one may use an imperative, as in "Tell me your name".
The principal use of questions is to elicit information from the person being addressed, by indicating, more or less precisely, the information which the speaker (or writer) desires. However questions can also be used for a number of other purposes. Questions may be asked for the purpose of testing someone's knowledge, as in a quiz or examination. Raising a question may guide the questioner along an avenue of research (see Socratic method).
Forse é così, io vivo fuori tempo;
é vero ciò che sento sotto pelle,
é come una costante sensazione di
mancata appartenenza
che suona e vedo le tue mani
allontanarsi alla deriva delle
cose che non ho,
cose che non avrei potuto avere mai,
e cose che non so,
le cose che non ho
sono ciò che sono e non chiedono scusa.
(Guardale a fondo non cerco una scusa).
Forse é perché sorrido fuori tempo,
non riesco ad adattarmi e galleggiare,
perso dentro guai di cui non
provo neanche più a trovare un senso,
ti cerco e vedo le tue mani
allontanarsi alla deriva delle
RIT.
Ma non rinuncerò ai miei relitti, alle mie cose che non ho
e non le tradirò - cose che so
Non dimenticherò la nostra strada e ciò che siamo,
questo no non credo cambierò - cose che so -