Posted on 11/08/2005 6:16:27 PM PST by AlaninSA
Texas voters Tuesday overwhelming approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making their state the 19th to take that step. In Maine, however, a proposal to repeal a new gay-rights law was trailing in early returns.
The contest in Texas was decided quickly _ the ban was receiving more than 74 percent of the votes in early returns. Like every other state except Massachusetts, Texas didn't permit same-sex marriages previously, but the constitutional amendment was touted as an extra guard against future court rulings.
The campaign had been enlivened over the past week because of a controversial tactic by the amendment's opponents, who argued in recorded phone calls to voters that the measure is so poorly worded that it could jeopardize traditional man-woman marriages. Amendment supporters denounced the effort as misleading.
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Which Supreme Court? I doubt our state court would do that...
Well, this Texan is proud to know that we won Prop 2! All the news kept saying this was close, but it wasn't even close. I'm in Dallas County and it is obvious we won hands down!
Nice going, Lone Star staters!!
The libs on MySpace were staking out ground on this issue. Plenty of heterosexuals urging Texans to vote as they were voting.
The left has not been having a good season. If you had a fantasy political league, you'd lose.
Thank God they're not representative of the state as a whole.
It's funny because the libs actually thought it had a chance of losing.
5.2%
Brrrrp. The same media said that John Kerry would win.
I suspect that the Republicans DID NOT run a candidate for mayor in Houston deliberately to NOT draw Democrats to the polls.
I went and voted for this ONE amendment. Actually there were nine amendments on the ballot.
And they believe that George Bush is Hitler and that Saddam was a sovereign leader elected by popular vote who was unjustly deposed.
I heard about it on 950 AM in Houston. But, being a Louisiana domiciliary, I was unable to vote on it.
I could have called that race 30 seconds after the polls opened.
====Which Supreme Court? I doubt our state court would do that...====
Oh, no. I was talking about the same Supreme Court that ruled on Lawrence vs Texas.
Depending on Roberts, and whether Alito gets confirmed, I am not convinced that the Supreme Court of the US would not overturn that law.
For some reason in Lawrence, they determined that homosexuals, a group of people who are self-defined by their behavior, have a set of civil rights assigned to them as if they were born that way... which has never been proven.
Maybe in Travis County.
Good point.
What is to prevent two same gender heterosexuals from getting married for benefits? I know of a few "married" people who didn't finalize their divorce solely for the perks of staying on the company health plan. Of course, they have not lived together in years and in fact live with new mates.
how many states have officially banned this now?
Yes, as a non-native Texan I really was puzzled by the presence of an item related to Smith County. As if I, a Bexar County resident, really should be determining how the people of Smith County (I don't even know where it is!) should spend their money.
Yeah,But...that is only 1 Precinct of 262 that has reported so far..not that I am defending the nuts in Houston
Just about every election with a constitutional amendment on it has one or more that has to do with land in some obscure county or reorganizing the Constable office in another obscure county.
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