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Dejection fills ballroom after gay marriage vote
AP ^ | 11/04/2009 | JOHN CURRAN

Posted on 11/04/2009 6:34:26 AM PST by Phlap

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."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; me2009; perverts
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For the gay rights movement, which has gained a foothold in New England, it was a stinging defeat. Gay marriage has now lost in every state - 31 in all - in which it has been put to a popular vote.

Lost in every state? Is there a message there?

1 posted on 11/04/2009 6:34:26 AM PST by Phlap
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To: Phlap

So what’s the opposite of “They’ll have a gay old time??


2 posted on 11/04/2009 6:36:52 AM PST by charles1252
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To: Phlap

The title alone was worth reading...


3 posted on 11/04/2009 6:37:17 AM PST by ejonesie22
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To: Phlap
"It's a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don't understand what the fear is."

It's not fear, honey. It's loathing.

4 posted on 11/04/2009 6:38:18 AM PST by Juan Medén
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To: Phlap

It isn’t fear. It is the fact that most people reject the notion of same sex marriage because it is a perversion.


5 posted on 11/04/2009 6:39:10 AM PST by Leg Olam (Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ejonesie22

Another graduate of the “Freudian School of Headline Writing.”


6 posted on 11/04/2009 6:39:10 AM PST by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself)
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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.

Ugh!

7 posted on 11/04/2009 6:39:30 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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The title alone was worth reading...

On first glance, I misread it as "Dejection fills bathroom after gay marriage vote".

8 posted on 11/04/2009 6:40:01 AM PST by kevkrom (Obama's Waterloo: a "hockey mom" with a laptop and a Facebook account)
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To: Phlap

That is a hilarious headline.


9 posted on 11/04/2009 6:40:17 AM PST by Sloth (For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of the International Olympic Committee.)
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To: Iron Munro

LOL...

Indeed...


10 posted on 11/04/2009 6:40:32 AM PST by ejonesie22
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To: Phlap

Ha ha ha ha ha ha


11 posted on 11/04/2009 6:41:19 AM PST by petercooper (GOP: Big Tent Party??? Not if you are a CONSERVATIVE.)
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To: Phlap

I’m glad that Mainers had the common sense to reject homo marriage, but they have to recognize that these fools will NEVER go away. They will continue to chip away at the cornerstone of civilization until they finally destroy it.


12 posted on 11/04/2009 6:41:59 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: kevkrom

Ballroom, bathroom, I am sure one can find both at a queer hang out...

Probably several of each...


13 posted on 11/04/2009 6:42:05 AM PST by ejonesie22
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To: Sloth

I wonder if they lost their deposit? Cleaning up all that dejection that filled the ballroom.


14 posted on 11/04/2009 6:42:09 AM PST by listenhillary (A "cult of personality" arises when a leader uses mass media creating idealized/heroic public image)
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It's a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don't understand what the fear is."

I don't care about your relationship, I don't want to know about your relationship, and I don't want the state, which represents me, endorsing it.

15 posted on 11/04/2009 6:42:28 AM PST by La Lydia
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To: Phlap

The voters are uninformed dontcha know..it’s why they legislate stuff into law, throwing aside the will of the people in a popular vote, all in the name of enlightenment..


16 posted on 11/04/2009 6:42:50 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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“It’s a personal rejection of us and our relationship, and I don’t understand what the fear is.”

That’s the core problem in her lack of understanding.

It’s not fear.


17 posted on 11/04/2009 6:43:07 AM PST by RobRoy (The US today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: Phlap

Poor things. I guess they went home to lay their heads on their carpets and cry.


18 posted on 11/04/2009 6:46:53 AM PST by reagan_fanatic (Hope....Change...Food Stamps!)
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To: Sloth

No ball room.
19 posted on 11/04/2009 6:47:00 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
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