Texas became the 19th state to approve a constitutional ban of gay marriage as voters decided nine proposed amendments today.
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Like every other state except Massachusetts, Texas didn't permit same-sex marriages, but the constitutional amendment was touted as an extra guard against future court rulings.With more than 700,000 votes counted, 77 percent favored the ban and 23 percent opposed it.
"I think Texans know that marriage is between a man and a woman, and children deserve both a mom and a dad. They don't need a PhD or a degree in anything else to teach them that," said Kelly Shackelford, a leader of Texans For Marriage, which favored the ban.
The implication being, I guess, that having a PhD or a degree in "anything else" might somehow magically confer an understanding that voting our state back into the 19th century isn't a Good Thing. Makes sense.
And since "the children" deserve both a mother and a father, I expect to see your proposed amendment banning divorce on the ballot in 2006, you slope-browed hypocrite.
Just out of curiosity, is it possible to issue iron-on transfers or armbands to all of you who are in favor of legitimizing bigotry and turning our country into a theocracy so, when I'm out with my daughter, we can cross the street to avoid you? I may have to share the state with you troglodytes, but I also have a parental duty to watch out for my kid until she's old enough to laugh in your faces herself.
That's it. I'm moving to California.
In 1965, 72% of adults were in favor of anti-miscegenation laws. They were struck down by "activist judges" and the world didn't end and marriage wasn't undermined.
I'm not happy about this outcome, but the wrong it represents can be fixed.
Wait--you live in the Lone Steer state, Chimp central, and this surprises you... why, exactly?
Pissed off =/= "surprised."
I'm not happy about this outcome, but the wrong it represents can be fixed.
Yeah, I'm sure the Roberts Court will be getting right on that.
Middle America needs to look past such homo-spawned evils as Jeffrey Dahmer, the Gay AIDS, Mapplethorpe's photos, and Tinky Winky and instead embrace all the good they've done, such as the David statue, Queen's oeuvre, and the comedy stylings of Wayland and Madame.
The Fancy Folk need a charismatic frontman, like a Wilde or a Liberace or a Lynde, to lead them to freedom. What's Rip Taylor doing now, anyway?
This makes me so angry, so ashamed to live in this otherwise fine state.
Yes, the amendment to the Texas Constitution baning at least gay marriage passed, with >70% of the vote. I recommend any married couples in Texas get at least a will and a durable power of attorney for health care [not......
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Wait--you live in the Lone Steer state, Chimp central, and this surprises you... why, exactly? A year ago, Massachusetts would have voted similarly, though, one suspects, with tighter margins. Now, a year after court-ordered same-sex marriage equality, having seen that the world didn't end, and that their own, straight marriages were neither better or worse off than they were before, if put to a vote today, gay marriage would win with a slim majority. That is why Rethuglicans are so adamantly opposed to so-called "activist judges."