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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Marriage is between a man and a woman...period.
You cannot minimize the national importance of the passage of Prop 2 here:
the queers pulled out all the stops, had people and money here from all over the nation, since in this election, this was the only place where DOM was on the ballot, and they thought they had a chance of defeating it.
WRONGO!
Doesn't make me wonder - I figured it out a long time ago!
Reminds me of what an old codger said at the Denton GOP meeting the other night:
he said "We don't need to redefine what marriage is, but we dang sure need to redefine what a "man" is!"
Perhaps now the politicians will see and know how much NON-clout the homosexuals have.
Politicans were courting the homosexual vote thinking they get their money or votes. It seems obvious now that homosexuals are pure poison in politics. A road to powerless.
Not long, although it will come from Texas, and other states, not recognizing same sex marriages performed in some liberal hellhole, like the state that continues to send the likes of Ted Kennedy and John Kerry to the US Senate. The one is drunken killer, the other a traitor.
Not sure why I haven't moved there yet
Ah, well, it's getting really crowded here... and the price of land is going so high you wouldn't believe it... and taxes! Why they keep talking about taxing income! and...
You're sure you'd vote conservative, and wouldn't keep telling us how you used to do things up north?
LOL!
And to all you Republicans out there who insist that we're better off 'playing not to lose', instead of standing up for conservatism, this is the very kind of result that makes a mockery of your convoluted 'logic'.
Conservative - true conservative - issues, and candidates, can and will win. But there can be not a trace of ambiguity when presenting the case. Stand tall and speak loud and clear that this great nation, founded on the principles of Judeo-Christianity, can only prosper and be truly free when it's citizens are motivated to rise against the moral and economic depravity of our opponent's agenda, indeed their benighted, socialistic passion.
The 'R' gubernatorial candidate lost in my state of Virginia tonight. A good man, and probably a good conservative at heart, but his failure to present himself as an unabashed conservative, resolutely and unambiguously stating his advocacy of true conservative positions, cost him this election.
I did my small part! :)
Correctomundo!... :)).... there was a lot at stake in this election and they did everything and they could to confuse the issue.
Ah, but the queers are so much more 'stylish' doncha know; it's just so fashionable to have them around once you're comfortably ensconced in one of those sinecures in Austin or Wahsington...
IN FAVOR 26,206 39.82%
AGAINST 39,601 60.17%
"Texas Voters Approve Ban on Gay Marriage"
Why yes I did!
"With a big population in Dallas County you'd have thought the gays would have turned out en mass to pass 'their' amendment....:-)"
Why go to the bother - I'm sure they figure the courts will give them what they want anyway.
LOL!
Good job, Bill. (I think we may have met at one of the state Executive Committee meetings in Austin?
I was standing in for Shirley Spellerberg.
If God decided to give Texas an Enema, which County do you suppose He would choose to put the hose in?
Excellant!
Well done !
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