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Marriage in Maine
In Maine, supporters of same-sex marriage are looking for their side's first honest statewide popular-vote victory (they prevailed narrowly in Arizona in 2006 by raising fears about elderly couples' joint checking accounts and then lost two years later when a the traditional marriage ballot initiative was revised to eliminate this red herring). Early returns -- just 70 of 608 precincts reporting -- show the "people's veto" of same-sex marriage failing 53 percent to 47 percent, which would mean that voters approve the legislature's redefinition of marriage in their state.
UPDATE: With a little less than a quarter of the vote in, the referendum is running 50-50 right now. This is shaping up to be a close one, as expected.
UPDATE II: With 76 percent of the vote in, Maine is now voting 52 percent in favor of a referendum that would veto legislation creating same-sex marriage. That's the same percentage by which California approved Proposition 8 last year.
UPDATE III: The people's veto appears to have passed.
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Nate| 11.3.09 @ 11:23PM
Gays are already authorized to marry in every state.
Male gays can marry females---straight or gay.
Female gays can marry males---gay or straight.
"Gay" is NOT a third sex.
If rear-ending or Lewinskying consummates a marriage for gays, you can bet the courts will eventually rule straight girls will have to put up with those activities on their wedding nights, just like gays. (14th Amend. "equal protection and all that.")
Most Americans say they've never considered this implication of gay "marriage," but it's coming.
Gay spokesmen won't discuss this problem with gay "marriage," instead using put-downs & intimidation to shut down the discussion of it.
Pingback| 11.3.09 @ 11:56PM
All In One Information » The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Marriage in Maine links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:
Jim Hlavac| 11.4.09 @ 12:11AM
The basic problem with the debate about gays is that no one knows, truly, why people are gay. You're kidding yourself if you claim you do, Biblically or Scientifically. If it is natural -- then it will remain the same percentage it's always been -- and nothing will ever change that, as nothing as ever changed that so far.
If being gay is a choice, then gays are exercising liberty by living together and wanting the same legal regime as any other couple. If a church, preacher, or official is willing to perform the ceremony, then no law should prohibit that, just because you don't like it.
Frankly, it smacks of the Christian laws against Jews for nearly two millennia in Europe. After all, in many jurisdictions only the oldest son of Jewish families were allowed to marry. The remainder were not allowed to marry, boy and girl, and their kids were legal bastards. That's the Christian kindness that shines so bright today against gays. It has merely morphed from a formerly hated and despised group to the latest fad bunch, gays.
Amazing. And Republicans and Conservatives want gay votes, too. Equally amazing. All over a piece of legal paper.
Or are we to argue for breaking down the doors of the sodomists and incarcerating them?
Amazing.
victor| 11.4.09 @ 12:44AM
You need to read the Bible and see what God says about homosexuality. He says it is sin and those practicing it will never get to Heaven.
You can rationalize that behavior any way you wish, but it is still sin and it is chosen by those who practice it.
God made you to be a man who is to marry a woman and have children. It is a case of mistaken identity to think that you are a woman or should choose a man.
Nick| 11.4.09 @ 1:24AM
I see you got your history degree from inside a Cracker-Jack box.
Anti-Christian bigot.