Some googling of recent polling shows Mainers to be more or less split down the middle for support of gay marriage, so I guess it will be a function of who shows up to vote on the referendum and how much public opinion moves in the next few months.
it boggles my mind how, in today’s world, discrimination of any sort, against anyone, can be championed and considered justifiable in any way. It actually makes me sick.
In this case it comes down to definining it as a choice, specifically an evil choice. There’s nothing wrong with trying to prevent people from choosing to do evil, right? And there’s nothing wrong with discriminating against evil people, right?
Right.
As a journalist in Seattle wrote today:
Yes, there is, because the definition is subjective. Your evil doer may be my Gay brother, one of the most kind, caring, and empathetic people I know, living his life, not bothering anyone.
That’s the entire point.
How dare you lock up child molesters? They’re only loving each other, how can you discriminate against them?
Discrimination isn’t a bad thing by itself.
Sure! Get married, have some kids, buy a house together, then have this God person handle the divorce too!
What’s that you say? Now it’s a weeeeee bit more complicated and the courts don’t give a rat’s ass what God’s eyes think?
Which is why those people who made the evil choice of rejecting Jesus and not being Christian can be discriminated against.
I predict that Alabama will be #6. Either that or Utah.
Would you be willing to put money on that?
The DC city council vote says that they’ll recognize same sex marriage performed elsewhere, but DC won’t do it there.
Nah, Wyoming and Idaho will marry each other.
I dunno, Wyoming and Colorado have much more in common.
State marriage was intended to be between states of different shapes! Same-shaped-state marriage is an abomination!
(Congratulations, people of Maine.)
I don’t know what NY is waiting for. We should really be hanging out with the cool kids in Maine, but we’re stuck behind enemy lines.
Crap, missed the editing window. Holy crap, I was wrong. So our governor proves he can do something right after all. Yay! Let’s see how it goes.
CNN’s latest update is that the New Hampshire lege has sent a bill to Governor Lynch.
Agreed. To this day I can only shake my head that Prop 8 wasn’t voted against by at least 80%. Looks like the CA liberals moved to ME. :rolleyes:
Interesting note in the article about New York:
Wow - I’d be interested to see that list in full. I had no idea - and I bet most people don’t either - that there were that many issues at stake.
Well I did, anyway. Maybe they all followed me and I didn’t notice.