Posted on 04/05/2005 8:57:52 PM PDT by srm913
Kansas voters gave a resounding yes Tuesday to a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage, providing what supporters hope is momentum for more bans nationwide.
With 133 of 210 precincts reporting statewide, the measure was leading with 70 percent of the vote. In Johnson County, with all precincts counted, the measure passed with 60.14 percent of the vote.
The Rev. Jerry Johnston of Overland Park, who pushed for the ban, said the amendment was not about discrimination, as opponents claimed.
“This was about being pro-family,” he said, as he monitored results with a small group at his First Family Church.
Archbishop Joseph Naumann of the Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas, another supporter, said he believed opponents would have been highly motivated to vote.
“That's why I think these numbers are very good,” Naumann said. “Marriage has always been understood as between a man and a woman and I think people understand that today and feel strongly about it.”
Opponents who gathered near the state Capitol in Topeka were disappointed but not surprised by the outcome.
The vote is not reflective of the typical Kansan, said Steve Brown of Prairie Village, a member of Kansans for Fairness, a group that worked to defeat the amendment.
“Eventually, moderate Kansans are going to stand up and say they've had enough,” Brown said.
With the victory, Kansas becomes the 18th state to incorporate such a ban in its constitution. Thirteen of those states, including Missouri, passed similar amendments just last year. Alabama, South Dakota and Tennessee have votes scheduled for 2006, and legislation has been introduced in 14 other states to put such a measure on the ballot, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
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Hmmm... THAT is why they won't stop shrieking!
In all seriousness though, I'm allergic to birds, but I love watching the cardinals, chickadees and finches at my backyard feeder.
We need to do a KC area Freeper get together. If anyone is interested I might try to arrange it.
I know a great coffee house that is populated by conservatives (and a token liberal, but he's a pretty good guy)
Sounds great! Let me know the whens and wheres.
Are you joking? They're judges, man - - they rule everything.
How about April 30th (Saturday). A little coffee house called Coffee Bay in Lenexa. If we get enough people we can expand to lunch and have pizza at the connected pizzaria.
Oh, BTW everyone, if the KC Star won't grant you access without registering, you can bypass it by going to www.bugmenot.com.
A real treasure, that site.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
One thing that makes little sense in the topic heading: "Red State America". Marriage amendments, if sent to the voters, will pass in every state, and most of the Western World (only one jurisdiction in North America - the province of Quebec - shows a majority in support of gay marriage)
It's a date.
I'll let other KC area Freepers know when I run into them.
209 out of 210 reporting in. Looks like 207 have said YES!
Douglas just reported in and like the commie county they are, they voted it down (looks like the only place in the state). They appear as a little red island in a sea of blue on the KS-SOS site.
Still waiting for that last precinct in Logan.
Okay thanks, that would be 19 states then that have marriage defined in the constitution.
I think, by 2010 at the latest, all 50 states will have it defined.
Coffee Bay is only open till 11 or noon, then Stonewall Pizza opens. It's an easy migration through the ajoining doors.
Great coffee place, and from everything I hear the pizza is great.
How long do you think it will take for Judical Tyranny to overturn the will of the people?
Wednesday the 6th of April around 11 am. The judge needs his morning Starbucks.
That should be a good destination.
I'll certainly never complain about getting pizza!
Unfortunately, the only way out is a United Nations-defined standard saying marriage is globally defined as one man and one woman. Even the Federal Marriage Amendment will not stop gay couples from coming up to Canada (where, BTW, polls show marriage amendments, if put on ballots, would pass in most of the provinces) and returning to the US
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