Posted on 11/04/2009 12:52:15 AM PST by GoldStandard
PORTLAND, Maine — Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party in a Holiday Inn ballroom, they hoped to celebrate the vote that would make it possible.
Instead, they went home at midnight, dejected and near tears after a failed bid to make Maine the first state to approve same-sex marriage at the ballot box.
"I'm ready to start crying," said Burnett, a 58-year-old massage therapist, walking out of the ballroom with Swanson at her side. "I don't understand what the fear is, why people are so afraid of this change.
"It hurts. It hurts personally," she said. "It's a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don't understand what the fear is."
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See my new tagline.
Tis nothing that gay marriage loses whenever Ameican’s are forced to vote on it - just find an activist judge and votes mean nothing.
More pictures, please. They bring a smile to my face.
One man and one woman marriage is now 31 and O?
Do you think the Left will take the hints?
It seems to me that nearly every issue faced by homosexuals is solvable using other existing methods: wills, living trusts, etc. Marriage is a covenant sanctioned by God. Deal with it.
“I don’t understand what the fear is, why people are so afraid of this change. It hurts. It hurts personally. It’s a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don’t understand what the fear is.”
It’s not fear it’s DISGUST!
You perceive it as fear. That's your problem.
Where's your acceptance of the traditional (f/m) marriage vow?
I think like Brytani says they will try any way possible.
People rooted in such filth are never going to suddenly do the decent thing.
Yea, it 'tis.
It's not fear you stupid bee-otch!
Everyone is thinking the same thing here. I would like to add... be very glad it isn’t fear, things we fear tend to um disappear. It is disgust & acknowledgment that it is exceedingly unnatural.
Because it necessarily creates children who are severed from their biological heritage, and it does this by design.
To deliberately create children who are denied an intimate relationship with one or more of their parents, is simply unconscionable, and it shouldn't be condoned
It is wrong and it is immoral, therefore, any relationship that necessitates this system as one of it's principles of marriage, is also wrong and immoral.
Cry for the children. They are the one's being denied their inalienable, God given rights, even as you beat it out of them with your own selfish tears.
Please, no more photos.
Yes you do - but you don't give a damn.
So give-a-damn punched back.
Better put some ice on that, hypocrite.
Nope.
You said it as plainly as it can be said. “It is not fear. It is disgust.”
Correct.
Glad (no pun intended) Maine saw the light and voted for “tradional” marriage which in reality shouldn’t have to be called “traditional” marriage, just marriage.
Now, if the Republicans were smart thay would introduce a “Civil Union” bill. It would pass, as it should and this issue would be DEAD or at least put to rest for years.
butchcide
It’s more like 95 to 5 (gays make up about 5% - 7% of the populace). So you get the 5% gay vote and 30% sympathetic libs - total 35% - 37% is all the votes they can muster...
All perfectly said. I would add that since the end of the Mann Act and other enforcements, marriage is dead as a legal entity. People are allowed to "just live together", and people "just living together" are allowed to call it whatever they want. And five minutes of legal paperwork will make that relationship legally identical to being married. Thus, homosexuals are completely tolerated. By demanding a recognized legal status, homosexuals go beyond asking for tolerance to demanding acceptance.
With marriage under attack by the state through higher taxation-restrictions and non-legal recognition of the Sacrament, I will be surprised if the religious to not cease getting a marriage license; instead choosing to get married in the church alone.
All perfectly said. I would add that since the end of the Mann Act and other enforcements, marriage is dead as a legal entity. People are allowed to "just live together", and people "just living together" are allowed to call it whatever they want. And five minutes of legal paperwork will make that relationship legally identical to being married. Thus, homosexuals are completely tolerated. By demanding a recognized legal status, homosexuals go beyond asking for tolerance to demanding acceptance.
With marriage under attack by the state through higher taxation-restrictions and non-legal recognition of the Sacrament, I will be surprised if the religious to not cease getting a marriage license; instead choosing to get married in the church alone.
>> Now, if the Republicans were smart thay would introduce a “Civil Union” bill
And what exactly would a “civil union” bill do for us?
Allow taxpayers to graciously fund government benefits for sodomites?
Legitimize faggots adopting children? REQUIRE adoption agencies to hand precious little children to be raised by queers and screwed up for life?
What? What would it accomplish?
And — it would be the camel’s nose under the wall of the tent. Faggot activists will NEVER stop until they have put their filthy choke hold on ALL of American life - including marriage, and indoctrination in public schools of faggotry as an “alternative lifestyle”, not the sexual perversion that it IS.
The LORD knew what He was doing. Fire and brimstone for Sodomites.
On to the pusuit!
Fire all the Legislators
Who voted for this...
If we accept their contention that opposition to gay marriage is based on fear, we have given away the game.
It is not fear to oppose that which is bad. Rather, those who are too timid to stand up for what they know is right are the ones who are fearful.
Thankfully, there are still 52% of the people brave enough to pull a lever in a private voting booth. The gays need to set up Card Check for gay marriage. That way they can intimidate people in person.
Awwww.
“and I don’t understand what the fear is”
Its not “fear”. Its simply wrong and wrong headed.
Not so gay today.
Perhaps now they can focus on a cure.
Yes. Yes, it is.
No.
The Supreme Court will impose homosexual "marriages" within two years by overturning DOMA and nationalizing the Massachusetts model through full faith and credit, using Romer, Lawrence and Casey's "mystery passage" as precedents.
These votes have no significance whatsoever. It's a done deal.
Maybe one answer would be to separate the two parts of marriage, the law and the Bible. Leave the Bible part to be called marriage, but find a new term for the civil part. It could be the best of both worlds. Same sex couples would have all the benefits, sans the religious part. The state would issue a certificate called something like a Certificate of Union. Both same sex couples and a man and woman couple would get that document, just like marriage licenses are issued now. That would be it for the same sex couple unless they opt for some sort of ceremony of their own. The mixed couple would get the same certificate and the church would issue the marriage certificate based on the civil document.
Ladies....I have news for you:
You have every right in the world to get married-—to a MAN!
Equal rights-no problemo!
Nope,
The fags will just go shopping for a sympathetic judge who agrees with their sordid lifestyle
I have a book to recommend, Cecilia and Ann. You’d get a lot out of it. Get the King James Version.
Apparently you need a new tagline.
“Fear” has nothing to do with it.
And some say the Bible is irrelevant. That whole Romans text was written for this time.
nonsense.
civil unions are nothing but a back door to de facto homosexual based marriage.
We ALREADY have cohabitation contracts available at your local office supply store. ($29.95) Enforcable in court under contract law.
Society rewards the institution not the individual.
Homosexuals want the individual’s mating habits rewarded.
Today was a GOOD DAY for America.
:-)
“Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date.”
Well, now they can un-set it ;-)
Sumo wrestlers?
Not sure what you mean by that. Just curious. The ONLY person I have any control over in this world is ME. Others are free to do as they please and take it up with whatever they face in the next life. God has made it clear that we are to state our stand and then let those who choose to take another stand let them do so. Do you disagree?
Unfortunately opponents of so-called gay marriage are, despite electoral wins, allowing the other side to control the debate.
Defining marriage is the key item. It is not ‘discrimination’ to call a whale a mammal and a cardinal a bird while NOT calling a cardinal a mammal. It is taxonomy.
By the same token if we define marriage as man+woman then all the arguments referring to love, respect, etc. are null and void since it is a scientific classification not a value judgment.
It may be a long wait but eventually someone from the gay marriage crowd will be honest enough to admit that it’s all a strategy to subvert societal norms and to ‘get even.’
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