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Option Vote% Total Votes
YES
57%
220,182
NO
43%
168,736
2 % Reporting Updated 2008-11-04 23:16:09 EST
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4%
61-39 in favor of ban
fuck fuck fuck
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Down here in florida, they did the same thing. Also in arizona,too. I don't have the %'s yet.
At least Obama aknowleged us in his acceptance speach. "Gay, straight, black,white, disabled...etc"
aqua
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. Washington Irving
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I suppose you need to set this crap against getting the president that is required at present. While it's one hell of a sacrifice to make, with luck it will be worth it. Many of the rights of marriage can be secured with the use of a good lawyer.
[Updated on: Wed, 05 November 2008 09:35]
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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86% as of 5:50 this morning
52 Yea
48 Nea
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I'm sorry, Jordan, but at least the passing of proposition 8 doesn't stop people living together. And I think that the ban on gays adopting children that some states have passed is worse.
Maybe you will gradually get a more liberal supreme court that will decide it is part of the rights of every citizen that they can marry.
And I do think that you may be in for some quite long-needed changes like the closure of Guantanamo and withdrawal from Iraq which may help to start rebuilding the reputation of the USA (which is not any longer thought of as a beacon of justice or truth or democracy) but, of course, the big problem is how to get the economy back in shape and the way Wall St is regulated changed so that meltdown won't happen again.
Love,
Anthony
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Jordon, Curtis tells me you are quit smart and a good man. dont fret to much over the marrage proposition. There are other legal ways to accomplish the same things. Marrage doesnt work for straight people, so why on earth do gays think they can make it work. The first couple to get married on the east coast were also the first to file divorce papers. They were better off just living together. Remember, marrage is whats in your heart and mind, not a peace of paper a state provids.
If you stand for Freedom, but you wont stand for war, then you dont stand for anything worth fighting for.
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My state of Idaho has banned gay marriage. Yet there is a gay couple in my church that have adopted a child of mixed race. They are also foster parents for three young sisters that are soon to be adopted as well.
This may seem to be a Catch-22, gays who can't marry yet adopt children. Yet when you consider the number of children that seem to be un-adoptable (mixed race, infirmities, etc) the state is willing to do what is right for the child. But it needs to stay low key or the evangelicals and fundamentalists will raise their swords and pass more 'anti-gay' laws.
Children grow up and become voters. They also express their opinions to friends and in newspapers. Their friends have seen that this family is just as normal as any straight family. And of course these aren't the only gay foster or adopting parents in this state. I believe there will be a time when they can shame this right wing state with loving stories of their two dads or two moms. It will take time, but I believe time is on our side.
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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Roger wrote:
Marrage doesnt work for straight people, so why on earth do gays think they can make it work.
In support of what Roger wrote:
A man is walking along wearing a T-shirt that has emblazoned on the chest the legend "I am the best husband in the whole world". A friend walks up to him and says, "That's a super T-shirt. Did your wife give it to you?" The proud wearer replies, "No. My next-door neighbours are getting divorced so they're selling everything."
J F R
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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