Posted on 04/07/2009 8:36:25 AM PDT by wk4bush2004
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to do so with a legislature's vote.
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we’re in North east FL a conservative area and I got my wife out of MA as she was from there.
We helped to stop liberals pushing their agenda here and we helped to stop homo’s from getting married
I only wish that every conservative not republican move out of the north east and get south, or midwest.
we then can make our stand against them.
millions of conservatives move out of there then they the north east states will lose money, electoral count , power etc
the new states where these millions of conservatives go to get more conservative and it will be a power base where non liberal can change for generations
The next step, BTW, is a federal lawsuit under the “full faith and credit” clause to require all states to recognize the gay marriages performed in those states where it is legal.
And, IMO, they have a decent case under the Constitution.
That wouldn’t stop the US Supreme Court though...
CT legislature and people don't want it. A one-vote majority on CTSC said you have to do it. Funny though, I can't find where it says that one branch of government is superior to another.
This is all according to the “New England Project” that the gays launched years ago as a springboard to national homo recognition.
Great... now we’re up to FOUR Gay States: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa and now Vermont. *barf*
There is no comparison between Iowa and the other three states. Sixty-two percent of Iowans oppose gay marriage. And, what happened in that state is nothing short of tyrannical.
All the folk in VT that think gay marriage doesnt effect them will learn differently when their kids schoolbooks have to be changed to insure that homo marriage is portrayed identically to real marriage.
>>Vermont....what happened to the farmers and generations of poor rural people? Are they ultra liberal now? I don’t get it
Vermont got invaded by the “back to the landers” big time in the 60s and 70s. Then the flatlander Massholes and New Yorkers started moving in. And there are a bunch of liberal colleges here that attract students that tend not to move back out of the state.
The old-time conservative Vermonters (like my in-laws) are VERY outnumbered.
One interesting thing is that even the conservative ones have a strong libertarian streak in them that sometimes surprises me. They aren’t conservatives like you find in the south, where there is more of a homogenous conservative/Christian/anti-gay/anti-abortion population.
It’s much more varied here - a self-described conservative up here may be fiscal only, or just a few of the above characteristics, or all of them, in varying combinations.
Thankfully they are almost all pro-gun, however (even the lefties here don’t seem to have problems with guns). One bright spot in an otherwise dismal political landscape.
LQ
Yep. Look for Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire to turn soon. New Hampshire is heartbreaking to me... NH was pretty solid a Red State not that long ago, but I think it's gone forever, no turning back. Too many Massachusetts voters migrated to NH (to escape high taxes no less), and have infected the state like a cancer.
It's only a matter of time that hubby and I are outta Connecticut for good. CT going gay was like the final nail in the coffin... the people had no vote over it, one activist judge decided it was "time to get with the times". The high taxes are killing us as well. Just a matter of time...
so why can’t the people in CT,OH over turn this if they do not want it and why are republicans in those states not making a fuss over this?
Thanks for the ping!
I tried for years to get my wife out of MA and then we were driving when we spotted two men pretending they were getting married and all these other men throwing confetti at them.
My turned to me and said I love mystae but you know how you have been bugging me for years to move south to FL
I said yea why
she replied well lets do it, this state is not what I grew up in
we now moved 5 years ago and I am so happy I got her out of that state along with my kids.
We now know that our vote is something, our tax money does not go to liberal agenda’s in the state and we helped to stop homo’s from getting married here in FL
Please all conservative who are against this get out of New England, it is not the place where you grew up
years later my wife thanks me for getting her out and said it was the best move she ever made
The veto was poofterridden.
—The next step, BTW, is a federal lawsuit under the “full faith and credit” clause to require all states to recognize the gay marriages performed in those states where it is legal.—
And that’s why we need a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex “marriage.” Personally, I’d be willing to make a deal with the ‘rats in congress to the effect “we’ll let you put FOCA in the constitution if you give us a “one man/one woman marriage amendment”. I think the ‘rats would be happy to throw the pooves under the bus for a deal like that. Sure, it sucks having FOCA enshrined in the Constitution, but abortion is a fait accomplit—even if Roe v. Wade went the other way it still would be (with just a few more limitations). Same-sex “marriage” is far more corrosive to the cohesivenss of the family structure than anything else imaginable.
NOW can we clearly state the Federal Marriage Amendment is required.
Full Faith and Credit attacks are now a certaintly and it only takes ONE kook judge to force this on the whole country.
You are wrong. The Full Faith and Credit Clause has never permitted one state to extend it's laws to the rest of the nation (See Nevada v. Hall.) Moreover, the Constitution specifically gives CONGRESS the right regulate under the Clause (which it has done so with the Defense of Marriage Act.)
Finally, there is a longstanding recognized public policy exception to the Full Faith and Credit Clause. There is a reason that the homosexual activists have desperately kept their cases out of Federal Court. They know that they will lose.
Not quite. District Court opinions are not binding precedent. Circuit Court Decisions are binding only in the Circuit in which they are issued. It will take a decision of the Supreme Court to have the effect that you state.
You say we need an amendment.
I need a billion dollar bailout.
My wish is just about as likely to be fulfilled as yours.
When we can’t even elect a majority in Congress, how in the h*ll are we going to get an amendment passed, something at least 10x more difficult?
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