Posted on 05/20/2009 12:39:55 PM PDT by Pyro7480
YEAH! (I like NH, and campaigned there in 2006, espeically yeah for my evangelical friends there ;)!!!
Yep, you understand it correctly. Nope, you’re not missing anything.
What the hell is going on in NH?
I lived there for a few years in the early 90’s.
They will never be equal!!! I think we who are married should then counter by saying we would like to change our status to Covenant relationship anything.....I wrote the Govenor and said how can you change the meaning of marriage when I am already in this contract? I do not want to be in the same type of contract as a homosexual couple. Where is my protection? I have had this contract (lawfully wedded) since 1990?
People are leaving Mass in a Mass Exodus....welcome to New Masshire....something like that......now that Mass just passed nes taxation on the beautiful people.....We will definately gain more ....exodus fallout from Mass....oye boy.....
WOO HOO!!! This gives the new FReeper group time to fight the issue before it comes back. Do not despair...we will be victorious in NH!
A temporary victory but a more permanent one can be achieved. New Hampshire and Maine can be turned back. It is very hard to reverse Vermont and CT though from polling data even in Vermont Gay marriage wouldn’t be a given if the vote was put to the people.
According to the article, you are correct.
So the dems voted it down because of the added wording?
And what’s up with such a small state like NH (pop. 1.3 Million) having 376+ reps in the house?
Oregon (pop. 3.8 Million) has 60 members in the house.
Very troubling possibility:
Opponents of pseudogamy vote against both bills.
Radical proponents of pseudogamy only vote against the bill with religious freedom protections.
The governor then bows to pressure to sign the original bill without the protections.
So sane people take the principled stand but end up with the worst outcome.
We have the third largest deliberative body in the English-speaking world, and that's just how we like it. Our representatives are carpenters, doormen, housewives, retirees, and millionaires. We run into them at the grocery store and talk politics over the corn pops, and pay them exactly the salary they deserve - $150 a year.
Please note, everyone - the conservatives in the House took this procedural opportunity to kill the bill. Most Democrats voted in favor of it because they wanted to get it in front of Lynch, the Governor. This was not a case of pique from culture warriors who didn't get every last scrap of what they wanted, but a narrowly-achieved defeat of a complete upending of the institution of government marriage in New Hampshire.
No - the opportunity for a "religious exclusion" amendment to satisfy a flip-flopping Governor brought the bill back within range of artillery one last time, and it was narrowly clipped on the left wing and spiraled down into the sea.
Wait a minute, you are telling me that NH has 376 members of their HofR?????
Government should not be in the marriage business. Leave it to religious institutions and contracts by the local courts. I doubt anyone cares who chooses whatever living arrangements they want. If the government allows no fault divorce, then protecting the sanctity of marriage is not what they care about.
Courts are a part of government.
I doubt anyone cares who chooses whatever living arrangements they want.
Conservatives DO CARE, it's people like you who don't.
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Even Governor “Do-Nothing” Lynch knows that if he signs this the ‘Rats are done in NH for the forseeable future.
Sign it, sign it!
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