[Pyro7480]

This will unfortunately be a temporary victory...

[frogjerk]

LIBS: "Quick, get a judge..."

[Pyro7480]

Catholic ping!

[cranked]

You net it will be only temporary, especially given as many homosexuals that appear during the summer around Portsmouth, etc. and right across the line into Maine...

[massmike]

Will the New Hampshire state reps now be charged with a hate crime?

[itsinthebag]

What’s with calling this the “gay-marriage” bill? There is nothing gay about this lifestyle. If they are going to call this disgusting piece of legislation anything, it should be called “homosexual-marriage” bill or even better yet, “sodomite-marriage” bill.

[Ben Mugged]

Homosexuals want the title “marriage” so they can declare moral equivalency. Something “civil union” doesn't do.

[Deb]

Nice work Gov. Lynch! The old poison pill. Way to go.

[Tennessee Nana]

New Hampshire lawmakers unexpectedly rejected a bill on Wednesday that would have made the state the sixth in the United States to authorize gay marriage.
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

NH doesnt want MASS taxes...

Or the MASS “social reforms”...

[BlueStateBlues]

Let’s have hope, I have hope, that this will stand. Hope like wishing on a star, probably, but if some of the reps hold and don’t compromise, and the opposition can filibuster or do some procedural moves, maybe. . .maybe. . .

[JSDude1]

YEAH! (I like NH, and campaigned there in 2006, espeically yeah for my evangelical friends there ;)!!!

[angkor]

What the hell is going on in NH?

I lived there for a few years in the early 90’s.

[FreepShop1]

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!

[Maelstorm]

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.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

"language that would give religious institutions opposed to gay marriage legal protections"

not neccesary. Already taken care of.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

[LayoutGuru2]

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.

[RetiredArmy]

The Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted down the bill in a 188-186 vote

Wait a minute, you are telling me that NH has 376 members of their HofR?????

[Birch T. Barlow]

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.

[Betty Jane]

Homosexuality from a crime against nature to a mental disease to the chic wave of the present. Where are the brave, and eloquent conservative voices to point out the evil in celebrating perversion?

[cradle of freedom]

I know that the Dems put “gay rights” on their party platform one year. Does anyone remember which year it was? Also, didn’t Pat Buchanan criticize this as part of a culture war? This was a long time ago and I am a little fuzzy as to what happened when.

[VeniVidiVici]

Gay marriage in New Hampshire. Gives a whole new meaning to the word Masshole.