Dejection fills Maine ballroom after marriage vote

Associated Press ^ | 11/04/2009 | John Curran

[GoldStandard]

PORTLAND, Maine — Cecelia Burnett and Ann Swanson had already set their wedding date. When they joined about 1,000 other gay marriage supporters for an election night party in a Holiday Inn ballroom, they hoped to celebrate the vote that would make it possible.

Instead, they went home at midnight, dejected and near tears after a failed bid to make Maine the first state to approve same-sex marriage at the ballot box.

"I'm ready to start crying," said Burnett, a 58-year-old massage therapist, walking out of the ballroom with Swanson at her side. "I don't understand what the fear is, why people are so afraid of this change.

"It hurts. It hurts personally," she said. "It's a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don't understand what the fear is."

[GoldStandard]

[Berlin_Freeper]

See my new tagline.

[Brytani]

Tis nothing that gay marriage loses whenever Ameican’s are forced to vote on it - just find an activist judge and votes mean nothing.

[rae4palin]

More pictures, please. They bring a smile to my face.

[iowamark]

One man and one woman marriage is now 31 and O?

Do you think the Left will take the hints?

[lafroste]

It is not fear. It is acknowledgment of the purpose of marriage, and the laws of God. No one says you can't live together and do what you want, but marriage is a Sacrament, not a way of getting health insurance.

It seems to me that nearly every issue faced by homosexuals is solvable using other existing methods: wills, living trusts, etc. Marriage is a covenant sanctioned by God. Deal with it.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“I don’t understand what the fear is, why people are so afraid of this change. It hurts. It hurts personally. It’s a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don’t understand what the fear is.”

It’s not fear it’s DISGUST!

[This_far]

"It hurts. It hurts personally," she said. "It's a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don't understand what the fear is."

You perceive it as fear. That's your problem.

Where's your acceptance of the traditional (f/m) marriage vow?

[Berlin_Freeper]

I think like Brytani says they will try any way possible.

People rooted in such filth are never going to suddenly do the decent thing.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

Marriage is between a man and a woman.

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

Romans 1:26-27

[Landru]

"'It's a personal rejection of us and our relationship...'"

Yea, it 'tis.

[Rummyfan]

"It's a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don't understand what the fear is."

It's not fear you stupid bee-otch!

[ElPatriota]

CONGRATULATION MAINE!!!!!!!

[momincombatboots]

Everyone is thinking the same thing here. I would like to add... be very glad it isn’t fear, things we fear tend to um disappear. It is disgust & acknowledgment that it is exceedingly unnatural.

[csense]

"I'm ready to start crying," said Burnett, a 58-year-old massage therapist, walking out of the ballroom with Swanson at her side. "I don't understand what the fear is, why people are so afraid of this change."

Because it necessarily creates children who are severed from their biological heritage, and it does this by design.

To deliberately create children who are denied an intimate relationship with one or more of their parents, is simply unconscionable, and it shouldn't be condoned

It is wrong and it is immoral, therefore, any relationship that necessitates this system as one of it's principles of marriage, is also wrong and immoral.

Cry for the children. They are the one's being denied their inalienable, God given rights, even as you beat it out of them with your own selfish tears.

[DontTreadOnMe2009]

Please, no more photos.

[Talisker]

"I'm ready to start crying," said Burnett, a 58-year-old massage therapist, walking out of the ballroom with Swanson at her side. "I don't understand what the fear is, why people are so afraid of this change."

Yes you do - but you don't give a damn.

So give-a-damn punched back.

Better put some ice on that, hypocrite.

[Ronin]

Nope.

[Louis Foxwell]

You said it as plainly as it can be said. “It is not fear. It is disgust.”

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

This is simple. Even my closest lesbian relative has no answer...

Marriage BENEFITS, which are SUBSIDIZED BY SINGLE PEOPLE, are
FOR THE CHILDREN,
not for two fat old women to do the double scissors!!!