New Hampshire lawmakers reject gay-marriage bill (in State House)

Reuters ^ | 5/20/200 | n/a

[Scarchin]

I think some used it as cover to change their vote.

[Betty Jane]

Homosexuality from a crime against nature to a mental disease to the chic wave of the present. Where are the brave, and eloquent conservative voices to point out the evil in celebrating perversion?

[cradle of freedom]

Love what you said, we should start calling it “sodomite marriage”.

[LayoutGuru2]

We have the third largest deliberative body in the English-speaking world, and that's just how we like it. Our representatives are carpenters, doormen, housewives, retirees, and millionaires. We run into them at the grocery store and talk politics over the corn pops, and pay them exactly the salary they deserve - $150 a year.

Sweet, thanks for the info. Visited NH 5 years ago. Great state - Live Free or Die. Never got a chance to see Old Man of the Mountain. Sad news about the collapse. I did pop over to Maine and enjoyed the best Lobster Roll ever at Bob's Clam Hut in Kittery.

[BlackElk]

Parker can sleep at home more regularly AND be a more proper parent to his kindergartner (KINDERGARTNER being propagandized by the gummint indoctrination center to imagine that Mr. Happy should be going to places unintended and into people unintended!!!) by REMOVING the kindergartner from the gummint indoctrination center. Abolishing gummint skewels should be a top priority of the conservative movement. "Free" babysitting at best and leftist indoctrination almost always.

With a name like McKenna, the judge probably had Catholic ancestors and sexually "straight" Catholic ancestors at that. Maybe they sent the judge to gummint skewels in his youth.

[BlackElk]

Don't knock it. $100 per year per legislator means no incentive to hang out in the state capitol making mischief. I haven't been to New Hampshire in years but they also used to allow the general public to sit in the chairs on the House floor, first come, first served and no preference for legislators. It is not for nothing that New Hampshire has no state sales tax or personal state income tax.

I would bet that Oregon's laws are a LOT more liberal with only 60 state representatives.

Also the joke in New Hampshire is: Be the first in your house to go to the state capitol as a representative!

[MSF BU]

I hope this is the case and I hope it lasts until the next election.

[LayoutGuru2]

I am not knocking it, I was just uninformed. Thanks to the FReepers that educated me. Legislators in Oregon are just part-timers that constantly whine that they don’t get paid enough. Oregon is a lberal enclave dominated by SanFran hippie types for the last 30 some-odd years. As much as I despise the political landscape; I was born and raised here and I will not leave this beautiful state. Just hoping that one day the ‘sheeple’ will open their eyes.

[WilliamPatrick]

Yes you got it right. The only reason the bill did not pass is because it had exclusions to protect religious organizations from having to perform marital ceremonies. Such a bill would clearly be an infringement on the right to practice ones’ religion. It is a chilling reminder of how the left and the homosexual lobby is trying to impose its brand of morality on the rest of society. Its a form of state religion. I swear every New England state must be populated with moral imbeciles.

[BlueStateBlues]

I call it his fake husband, or fake wife, or variants.

[BlueStateBlues]

Pretend wife, pretend husband, in most cases.

[MSF BU]

Not at all; the IRS has regularly limited (until they lost a case recently) tried to pull tax exemptions of churches that were active in educating congregations about moral issues. Also, nothing prevents the cases being brought in the first place, opening up every conservative denomination to possible law suits.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Right, of course. But the 1st amendment couldn’t be any clearer, is the point.

[cradle of freedom]

I know that the Dems put “gay rights” on their party platform one year. Does anyone remember which year it was? Also, didn’t Pat Buchanan criticize this as part of a culture war? This was a long time ago and I am a little fuzzy as to what happened when.

[cradle of freedom]

And to think this is the “big tent” philosophy that some Republicans want. Megan McCain - let’s have you “valley girl” opinion on this.

[reg45]

I swear every New England state must be populated with moral imbeciles.

Constitutional imbeciles, also.

[reg45]

Not HofR, it should be HoR (pronounced like whore).

[VeniVidiVici]

Gay marriage in New Hampshire. Gives a whole new meaning to the word Masshole.

[seamusnh]

Gov. Lynch knows that if this goes into law, the Dems are dead in the water in 2010. They got control in 2008 due to an anti-bush vote. A budget increase of 17.5% over two years, civil unions (no one ever campaigned on that issue; it was stated that NH needed civil unions to avoid gay marriage), etc have been tough for most NH’ites to accept. Gay marriage would be the last straw....