# Ohio's homophobic bastard Secretary of State

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohios-homophobic-bastard-secretary-of-state/270708>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 23, 2004, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohios-homophobic-bastard-secretary-of-state/270708 "2004-10-23T00:58:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohios-homophobic-bastard-secretary-of-state/270708/61 "2004-10-24T14:56:29Z")

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> [@This Year's Model](#):
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> Vote Salazar. 🙂

Slytherin?

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**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohios-homophobic-bastard-secretary-of-state/270708/62 "2004-10-24T20:35:09Z")

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I’m glad Issue 1 is on the ballot. It will give the voters a chance to tell the Secretary of State just how we feel about gay marriages. I am a moderate Republican and it’s my belief and hope that this Issue will fail so convincingly that our esteemed representatives will get the message loudly and clearly that they need to move onto real problems. How they can justify spending all their energy on this when we’ve lost countless jobs in this state, when thousands of Ohioans don’t have health care, and when the cost of education keeps rising is beyond me.

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2004, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohios-homophobic-bastard-secretary-of-state/270708/63 "2004-10-24T21:18:31Z")

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> Originally Posted by samclem  
> And, since this is the Pit, Blackwell is an Uncle Tom. And I mean that in the most derogatory sense of the term, not in the sense as it was first used. (You’d have to read threads about that. )

> [@Bricker](#):
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> How so? Perhaps he simply believes in the correctness of the approach he’s urging.

Rick, I understand where you’re coming from.

While it’s possible that he truly believes what he says, he’s a likely candidate for governor in a few years. [http://www.coshoctontribune.com/news/stories/20041024/localnews/1471684.html](http://www.coshoctontribune.com/news/stories/20041024/localnews/1471684.html)  
My link pretty well sums up the situation about the issue in Ohio.

Most of the Ohio Republican establishment, who have nothing to gain/lose, are against the ammendment. They know it possibly/probably won’t withstand a court challenge, and almost certainly isn’t good for the image of the state.

But Blackwell, and others who have future political ambitions, appear to take the position that it will help their future chances by supporting the ammendment.

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**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Girl)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2004, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ohios-homophobic-bastard-secretary-of-state/270708/64 "2004-10-25T02:29:15Z")

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I must sadly report that two signs imploring us to Vote Yes on Issue 1 have popped up in my neighborhood within a few houses of one another. I have yet to see a Vote NO on Issue 1. ☹ Where do I get one of those?

I can only surmise that these asswipes must fear that same-sex couples will prove better at this marriage thing than heteros. Fucktards. :mad:

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