No ball room.
Posted on 11/04/2009 6:34:26 AM PST by Phlap
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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Lost in every state? Is there a message there?
So what’s the opposite of “They’ll have a gay old time??
The title alone was worth reading...
It's not fear, honey. It's loathing.
It isn’t fear. It is the fact that most people reject the notion of same sex marriage because it is a perversion.
Another graduate of the “Freudian School of Headline Writing.”
Ugh!
On first glance, I misread it as "Dejection fills bathroom after gay marriage vote".
That is a hilarious headline.
LOL...
Indeed...
Ha ha ha ha ha ha
I’m glad that Mainers had the common sense to reject homo marriage, but they have to recognize that these fools will NEVER go away. They will continue to chip away at the cornerstone of civilization until they finally destroy it.
Ballroom, bathroom, I am sure one can find both at a queer hang out...
Probably several of each...
I wonder if they lost their deposit? Cleaning up all that dejection that filled the ballroom.
I don't care about your relationship, I don't want to know about your relationship, and I don't want the state, which represents me, endorsing it.
The voters are uninformed dontcha know..it’s why they legislate stuff into law, throwing aside the will of the people in a popular vote, all in the name of enlightenment..
“It’s a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don’t understand what the fear is.”
That’s the core problem in her lack of understanding.
It’s not fear.
Poor things. I guess they went home to lay their heads on their carpets and cry.
What’s the fear? Well, for starters, the fear is that you can lose your job if you disagree with a coworker about gay marriage because gay marriage is legal (MA), and that your kids are going to be inundated with all manner of homosexual indoctrination in the public schools and there is no opt out provision for parents who disagree with the lifestyle (MA and CA) because it’s now legal and the schools are “obligated” to incorporate it into their life curricula.
“Lost in every state? Is there a message there?”
I believe the message is that these 31 states simply represent the views of voters who bitterly cling to their guns and religion. So until the issue is put to vote in the other 29 states where REAL Americans live (the ones who put Barack Obama in the White House), we can’t be certain where the American public stands on this issue...
ummmm...didja go to the BO school of state counting?? 31 turned it down and the other 29 (total 60) haven’t voted yet?? I’m sure you meant 26 (total 57)...:)
I thought for a minute it read "bath house".
Why can’t they be satisified to being perverted behind closed doors why is it so important that their mental disease be on public display? well this will take a few months and then it’s off to the ‘Court’ system. Honest to God, are we ever going to have a civil society again? (rhetorical)
Domestic partnerships are the compromise...
I swear I first read this as "Dejection fills bathroom after gay marriage vote". Ha ha.
"It's a personal rejection of us and our relationship"
That explains a lot. They say it's about having the same rights as married couples. The truth is it's about public acceptance of their perversion.
homosexual have the same right as anyone else to marry a member of the opposit sex.
THERE IS NO LOVE TEST IN LAW.
THERE IS NO ORGAMS TEST IN LAW.
Homosexuality contributes NOTHING to the future of society and should and must be rejected any special rights.
No one is afraid of you. Just go home.
It's not fear, it is morals. It was Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, not Adam and Steve.
Its not a rejection of your relationship, its stating that the government has no business in it, which up until recently was what all you folks said you wanted.
There is absolutely no moral or secular reason that the government should have any involvement in a gay relationship. Hell, the ONLY justification for government involvement in a MARRIAGE is that heterosexual couples produce OFFSPRING, and the government clearly has a vested interest in the next generation of citizens. Sorry but homosexuals can do whatever they want with each other and they don’t produce offspring while doing it.
Homosexuals truly are mentally ill people. I attended a gay “marriage” out in cali, and it was a laughable experience. They actually had a license and everything since they did it during that period where it hadn’t been banned. So, they have their “marriage” license framed in the entryway of their home, they had a blow up of it on display at their “reception” as well. The “ceremony” itself was also a political event, not a solumn one.
I cannot think of a time in my entire life, where I have seen anyones marriage certificate framed and on display. Its always either tucked away with other legal papers, or at best put in a photo albumn.
Homosexuals just don’t get it, the governmental “sanctioning” of my marriage means nothing to me, its a beaurocratic piece of paper that once every few decades has to be pulled out for some other beaurocrat to do something. My marriage isn’t a marriage because the state says so, they could abolish it tommorrow and I’d still be married. I am married, I married my wife, she married me, the certificate from the state didn’t make it so.. the day I stood before our family and friends, my wife to me and the Lord above and said I DO, I became married, no government paper or sanction had or has anything to do with it, and never will.
Homosexuals are free to have whatever relationships they want, just to think they are only valid if the government gets involved in them is pitiably sick.
NONSENSE.
Domestic partnerships are just marriage.
ANYONE can UNDER CURRENT LAW go and buy a cohabitation agreement at the local supply store. for $29.95 it is a contract enforceable in court.
There is no need for a compromise that is defacto homosexual based marriage.
“ummmm...didja go to the BO school of state counting?? 31 turned it down and the other 29 (total 60) haven’t voted yet?? I’m sure you meant 26 (total 57)...:)”
I’m not sure why you want to let facts get in the way of a good argument (especially given that Pelosi-types never do). For anyone who has deluded themselves into thinking that the debate on global warming is settled or that a government-run health plan will be “better, faster, cheaper” than private health insurance, my argument is completely valid, whether we’re talking about 19 states or 29 states that have not yet had up-or-down votes on this issue.
You bet it is.
Crazy people don't know they're crazy. Homosexuals really do think they're normal, or "just like everyone else."
They don't know they're sick. Because of their political money, the politicians aren't going to tell them, either.
It’s just impossible to read these stories without tickling the 5th Grader in me. The other story about the “great blow” to the movement, this one with the “ballroom”. My inner-Beavis still laughs.
When the yahoo message boards were active,
this fact was brought up to the gay “marriage” advocates -
you can get a full legally binding contract between two people that gives all the same rights as marriage.
The answer was “NO, it MUST be called MARRIAGE.”
They aren’t seeking legality, they’re seeking acceptance, for the most part. And some are intentionally seeking the destruction of the institution as a whole.
LOL, seems I wasn’t the only one...
I'm stealing the term "inner-Beavis", just so you know.
I’m not for gay marriage, nor do I like gays in general, but I have met few and have some idea of what’s behind this (insert rim-shot here).
Do those agreements allow gay parters to claim each other as “next of kin” in hospitals, or in other legal situations? Just a thought.
MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! Meeee!!!!! It's ALL ABOUT MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!
As far as I know, homosexual couples can make legal agreements that join them as bindingly as heterosexual marriage. I do not fear that—I have no interest in it, but if that floats their boat, hey no problem.
Where I have a problem is the DEMAND for APPROVAL and the DEMAND that we all be educated about their sex practices. Ewww! I don’t even want to know all about every heterosexual sex practice. I have a problem with forcing churches to “sanctify” their union. I have a problem with forcing schools to teach little children what physical acts they perform to get off. For the love of Pete, WHY???
I don’t approve of it for mental and physical health reasons, I don’t want to know about it, I don’t want my grandchildren to learn that stuff, I don’t want my church to tell me it’s okay, I don’t want to know who they are, I want everybody to keep their sex business private. Completely.
PRIVATE!!!
I’m not discounting the validity of your argument, you and I agree completely..it’s just your math I was being /s about..
But...but....they said all they wanted was "tolerance" when all this crap started. They didn't say they wanted to destroy marriage and indoctrinate everyone elses children.
Thanks for saying that. That’s exactly what I saw the first time I read it.
from the article: “I don’t understand what the fear is, why people are so afraid of this change.”
It is not fear of change nor even hatred of homosexuals. It is the refusal to permit social engineers to redefine the meaning of marriage and family. It is a refusal based in the reality that marriage and family are the bedrock of all advanced human societies.
The socializing benefits of heterosexual marriage for men and women and the advantages afforded to children raised by a mother and father can not be denied. It is a lynchpin to economic and social independence from the government.
We need to make marriage and family stronger and give it more support in society; not permit social engineers to redefine it out of existence. The changes social engineers have made to marriage and family so far have had the effect of weakening it through dividing and hurting men, women and children. It does not uplift homosexuals to tear down the institution of marriage and family in their name.
cold day in hell
That photo can’t be real. But, it sure is funny.
Some of them (and the left) truly do not understand the ramifications of their childish “gimme my rights” tantrums.
See tagline for said “ramifications”.
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