New Hampshire House Approves Gay Marriage Bill
“The state House on Thursday voted narrowly to make New Hampshire” the third state to recgonize same-sex marriages.
Instead of hyperventilating like HRC, I’ll just echo what I said two days ago when the Senate in the Granite State’s New England neighbor passed a similar measure:Â “This is how states should address the issue, through the elected legislature, on the initiative of its members.“
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And if it were overturned by a ballot initiative? What then?
Comment by Levi — March 26, 2009 @ 5:43 pm - March 26, 2009
Won’t have to worry about most of that. The governor’s going to veto it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26vermont.html?ref=us
Comment by ColoradoPatriot — March 26, 2009 @ 5:59 pm - March 26, 2009
Ahhh… the legislative process. So smooth… so satisfying… so much more gosh-darned Constitutional than legislating from the bench.
Comment by Jamie — March 26, 2009 @ 6:26 pm - March 26, 2009
Jamie, ditto that.
Comment by GayPatriotWest — March 26, 2009 @ 6:50 pm - March 26, 2009
Norma Love of the AP in the linked article informs us:
The succinct description of the philosophy behind opposing gay marriage is provocative, at least.
I wonder if Norma Love is some sort of pseudonym.
Comment by heliotrope — March 26, 2009 @ 7:03 pm - March 26, 2009
NH Senator Judd Gregg — I’m starting to like the cut of his job.
Comment by V the K — March 26, 2009 @ 11:20 pm - March 26, 2009
or jib even.
Comment by V the K — March 26, 2009 @ 11:21 pm - March 26, 2009
5: I happened to be passing through the TV channels the other night and stopped for a couple of minutes on the movie “what happens in Vegas”. Ashton Kutchner and Cameron Diaz get married on a drunken binge, then attempt a quickie divorce. The judge (played by Dennis Miller) announces “gays aren’t a threat to marriage, people like you are”. Soooooo true.
and my usual favorite “marriage is sacred bond between 2 unwilling teenagers” – Sarah Palin (as played by Tina Fey).
If marriage is so sacred, then why is it all these people who support it aren’t screaming for a tightening of divorce laws? The sacredness of marriage has become the lamest of excuses to deny equal rights to all citizens. I still find it very funny that people are out there telling us what our morals and values should be, but they can’t follow those tenets themselves. (ie Newt “married 3 times, carried on an affair with number 3 while still married to number 2 and condemning Clinton at the same time” Gingrich)
Comment by Kevin — March 27, 2009 @ 10:36 pm - March 27, 2009
#8 – Yeah, marriage is a “sacred bond” all right. Tell that to JFK, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Antonio Villaragosa, Eliot Spitzer, James McGreavy, Teddy Kennedy, Gavin Newsome etc.
Checkmate.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — March 28, 2009 @ 12:14 am - March 28, 2009
Kevin’s argument boils down to “marriage doesn’t mean anything, so why are you defending it.” It’s a very constructive insight into how gay activists really feel about the institution they’re storming.
Comment by V the K — March 28, 2009 @ 10:08 am - March 28, 2009
#8 – Yeah, marriage is a “sacred bond†all right. Tell that to JFK, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Antonio Villaragosa, Eliot Spitzer, James McGreavy, Teddy Kennedy, Gavin Newsome etc.
Checkmate.
More like a draw or stalement, Peter, when you throw in Henry Hyde, Bob Livingston, Larry Craig, David Vitter, and Neil Bush. But your examples bolsters Kevin’s point about straight people who find marriage sacred. Well, except McGreevey and Craig, I suppose.
V the K, the point I got from Kevin’s post is that for people who find marriage sacred and want to improve it, instead of concentrating on same sex marriage, perhaps they should look to themselves and change divorce laws.
Heck, if one doesn’t believe marriage means anything, why fight for it?
Comment by Pat — March 28, 2009 @ 10:20 am - March 28, 2009
1. Then it’s the same as if they don’t. The system of government we live under worked.
Comment by The_Livewire — March 28, 2009 @ 1:04 pm - March 28, 2009