Maine: confusing wording

[ptyx]

You know I'm not a native English speaker, so you may disagree with me, but frankly, can a question be more confusing than:

Do you want to reject the new law that lets same-sex couples marry and allows individuals and religious groups to refuse to perform these marriages?

????? No, seriously...

Comments

[ptyx]

After reading the sentence thrice and parsing it, I finally understood it. But they surely could have phrased it more clearly.

[birdgirl78]

WTF--I *am* a native speaker and that's still a bizarre construction and a confusing one.

[ptyx]

Yeah, that's what I thought! :)

[sookail]

LOL, it looks like the first part of the sentence is for refusal and the second for approval.
*very much non-native speaker, and also confused*

[ptyx]

Exactly! Very confusing!

[gaycrow]

What stupid wording. I had to read it three or four times and even then I was still confused.

If it had been written in plainer language, who knows what the result would've been.

[ptyx]

Me too, I had to read it thrice, and also to parse the sentence to understand it.

Yes, that's what I wonder, too.

[mysticsong]

Wordings like this is why a lot of Californians said they felt they got seriously tricked into voting the wrong way on Prop 8.

[ptyx]

I totally agree!