Posted on 10/25/2008 3:03:04 PM PDT by flattorney
TALLAHASSEE - Love it or hate it, most Florida voters have made up their minds about a ballot amendment to ban same-sex marriage. And most likely, a new poll shows, they'll vote to insert a definition of marriage into the state's constitution. An Orlando Sentinel poll released Thursday found Amendment 2 -- which defines marriage as "only one man and one woman" -- had support from 56 percent of likely voters, while 37 percent opposed it. That's barely changed from a 55-to-34 margin in a similar survey two weeks ago. The remaining 7 percent of undecided voters will determine whether it reaches the 60 percent approval threshold required to amend Florida's Constitution. History suggests it will pass because undecided voters have tended to break in favor of gay-marriage bans in other states, said Brad Coker, polling director for Mason-Dixon Polling & Research. The firm surveyed 625 registered voters Monday and Tuesday; the poll has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
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10.24.08 Miami Herald: Poll: Gay-marriage ban just short of passing
- - A majority of Florida voters back a state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, though the level of support is just shy of the 60 percent required for approval, according to a Mason-Dixon poll released Thursday. The survey found 56 percent favor Amendment 2, while 37 percent oppose it and 7 percent are undecided. The Oct. 20-21 survey of 625 likely voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percent. ''While the current support level remains below the 60 percent threshold, it still has a good shot at voter ratification,'' said Mason-Dixon pollster Brad Coker. ``In other ballot amendment and initiative votes in other states, undecided voters have generally broken strongly in support of gay marriage bans.''
There has not been one poll that gives us the 60% minimum vote required to pass Amendment 2. Please Vote Yes on November 4th and do an aggressive door-to-door campaign in your area. Florida Amendment 2 is a major Democrats-Soros Shadow Party defeat initiative. They are spreading substantial misinformation in the media to defeat this constitutional amendment. Nationally noted financial guru (and gay) Suze Orman has been spreading the same pack of lies about Amendment 2 in the National media. - FlAttorney
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Attorney Matthew Staver, the author of the Florida Marriage Protection Amendment (2)
Amendment: “Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.”
The Text of Florida Marriage Protection Amendment:
“Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.”
I. The Purpose of the Amendment.
A. The Amendment defines and preserves marriage as the union of one man and one woman as husband and wife.
B. The Amendment prohibits any other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof from being valid or recognized as marriage.
II. The Amendment, Domestic Partnerships and Civil Unions.
A. The Amendment does not prohibit the state or local government from passing laws which confer rights to unmarried persons as long as the laws are not designed to treat unmarried relationships as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof.
B. The Amendment does not affect benefits offered or contracted in the private sector.
MAR
Why the heck can’t Florida just do it like everybody else 50.1% for a majority.
Another “sign of the times.” We are returning to the days of Sodom & Ghormorha. Perhaps the coming Democrat rule will bring God’s judgment on the nation with it?
How the hell can anyone think of ANYTHING BUT a man and woman. The whole thing should not be happening and the only reason it is happening is to get away with indoctrinating our kids and obtaining “financial” benefits paid for my you and me.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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This is what a Lawyer told me anyway.
When we threw God’s law out of churches, we opened up our whole society to this stuff. You cannot obtain salvation through the law, only through grace! However, you can’t live among the heathen without the law. You can’t run an orderly society without it!
Donate to the Florida Marriage Protection group and California as well, they need all the money they can get to get these passed.
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