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Thread ID: 20956 | Posts: 2 | Started: 2005-11-09
2005-11-09 02:25 | User Profile
As if we thought it would turn out any other way!:cowboy:
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| Texas Voters Approve Ban on Gay Marriage Nov 08 9:02 PM US/Eastern | [IMG]http://img.breitbart.com/images/ap.gif[/IMG] |
By DAVID CRARY
Texas voters Tuesday overwhelming approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making their state the 19th to take that step. In Maine, however, a proposal to repeal a new gay-rights law was trailing in early returns.
In California, voters had a chance to embolden or embarrass Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as they considered four measures he promoted as part of a power struggle with legislators and public-employee unions.
The contest in Texas was decided quickly _ the ban was receiving more than 74 percent of the votes in early returns. Like every other state except Massachusetts, Texas didn't permit same-sex marriages previously, but the constitutional amendment was touted as an extra guard against future court rulings. The campaign had been enlivened over the past week because of a controversial tactic by the amendment's opponents, who argued in recorded phone calls to voters that the measure is so poorly worded that it could jeopardize traditional man-woman marriages. Amendment supporters denounced the effort as misleading. In Maine, early returns indicated voters were spurning a measure placed on the ballot by a church-backed conservative coalition that would repeal a gay-rights law approved by lawmakers earlier this year. The lawmakers expanded the state's human rights act to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, a step already taken by the five other New England states. With about 12 percent of the precincts reporting, 57 percent of the voters were voting against the repeal effort.
2005-11-09 02:37 | User Profile
Never fear, fedgov inc will step in, overrule these redneck, backwater hicks and make Texas a safe place for homos.
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