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The Spectacle Blog
At the same time California’s Proposition 8 appears headed to the Supreme Court, there has been legislative progress in three states for supporters of same-sex marriage. Bills that would redefine marriage to include same-sex couples have passed in Washington and New Jersey while advancing in Maryland. Washington’s Democratic governor signed the bill into law to take effect June 7; Maryland’s governor will follow suit. Chris Christie vetoed the New Jersey bill.
Christie is calling for a referendum on marriage. Similar ballot initiatives are possible in Washington, where an effort is already underway to overturn the new law, and Maryland, where the same-sex marriage bill has been amended to leave time for a referendum on the issue. When Maine’s legislature passed and the governor signed such legislation, the voters overturned it. Same-sex marriage has yet to prevail on a statewide ballot.
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Oldefarte| 2.20.12 @ 2:55PM
Any judge that votes to establish the sacrament of marriage for homosexuals should be impeached, legally tried and convicted, since the NATURAL LAW [forbidding same] is the basis for and takes presidence over MAN'S LAW!!!!!!!!!
JJ| 2.20.12 @ 3:36PM
Please do not even use the term "same sex marriage". It is an oxy-moron. Its not marriage. What gives a government the right to redefine anything? Can it now decide to redefine religion, citizen, state, president? Why have a constitution if it can easily be altered just be re-defining words.
Oldefarte| 2.20.12 @ 4:25PM
And while we're on the subject, let me make this perfectly clear: I'm not gay -- I just like having sex with other men. We must all stay in the closet so our wives don't find out.
Fiscal| 2.20.12 @ 4:49PM
I've never understood why so many want government to codify their religion in the name of "natural law". Once we ask government to intervene, it is a slippery slope to limit our personal rights elsewhere. Also, when the government intervenes, our government gets larger, not smaller as we then have administrative offices and enforcement. There has not been a same sex couple alive that threatens my marriage. I wonder how it threatens yours.
Voting on an issue like this makes absolutely no sense as we end up with the tyranny of the majority. This is a religious issue -- let's get the government out of the "marriage" business then we will just have civil unions for all. Even Chris Christie support civil unions for same sex couples.
JJ| 2.20.12 @ 10:49PM
If marriage is a religious issue why does the Obama definition of rich contain a marriage penalty? Why must we pay for benefits for married government employees? Marriage is a social institution. If the government completely ignored it, that would be fine, but that is not what happens.
Drek| 2.20.12 @ 5:08PM
The conservative response, since we're going to lose on this front as well, since even in our own ranks there are many who no longer see any problem with homosexualism, our response should be to get the government out of marriage altogether.
We should be pushing laws prohibiting states, all states, all municipalities, all ship Captains, everybody from conducting marriages.
The only ones left who would be conducting marriages would be religious organizations. And those marriages would have no legal impact whatsoever.
No tax advantages, nothing.
Better to strip marriage of any legal basis whatsoever than to cave to the degenerates pushing homosexualism.
And that is what's at stake here.
This hasn't nothing to do with marriage.
This has EVERYTHING to do with ramming home the normalization and the mainstreaming of freakshow conceptions of sexuality.
There's not a single whit difference between letting two flamers marry and letting a nutjob marry his two dogs and a cat. Nothing.
NADA!
Once marriage becomes the plaything of the subjective, once marriage becomes nothing but the empty slate freakshows get to write their personal dramas upon, once it loses whatever objectivity and tradition it ever had, then it becomes an utter joke.
This is what you get by the way, once you let society's complete understanding of sexuality devolve into personal expression.
Good God Almighty!
It's like our whole damn society is embracing, gleefully and joyfully embracing the credo of some damn idiot and degenerate like madonna .............
It's a sign of the times.
Nothing less than a sign of the times........
Art| 2.20.12 @ 6:53PM
Rino's here in NY helped Gov.Cuomo pass same sex marriage.
PCP Smoker| 2.20.12 @ 7:22PM
Thank God for the Founding Fathers. This issue is now being resolved in the right manner: Fifty little laboratories experimenting with a particular odious and perverse form of liberalism. We'll see.
Drek| 2.20.12 @ 7:45PM
This isn't merely some milestone on the road to decadence.
This is the end terminus thereof.
God I feel for those trying to raise boys and girls into decent men and women today.
Seems just about everything is stacked against 'em, and you can't even turn on a ball game without endless ads of women as minks or teases, scantily clad, whose sole purpose in existence is to act as some sperm spittoon for young "men," who can't stand up straight, can't speak the King's English, can't even be bothered to tuck in their shirts, can't be bothered to wear anything other than flips or sandals, can't make much of an effort to inform themselves of much and only CAN be relied upon to vote for that out-and-out jerk obama!
FeFe| 2.22.12 @ 5:48PM
For the love of mercy, please stop giving states money! MD Gov. O'Malley forced state workers to pay union dues (with a savings of $5 a moth if you don't actually join the union) by the stroke of a pen, and now he takes all the action for the militant GLBT bundling community so that Obama can keep his hands lily white and sharia compliant. But, GOP leadership loves baseline budgeting, too! One must learn to be prudent, as Mr. Barone says. Submit.