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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?
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posted on
11/04/2009 6:34:26 AM PST
by
Phlap
To: Phlap
So what’s the opposite of “They’ll have a gay old time??
To: Phlap
The title alone was worth reading...
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.
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.
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posted on
11/04/2009 6:39:10 AM PST
by
Leg Olam
(Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you. - Benjamin Franklin)
To: ejonesie22
Another graduate of the “Freudian School of Headline Writing.”
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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)
To: 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.Ugh!
To: ejonesie22
The title alone was worth reading... On first glance, I misread it as "Dejection fills bathroom after gay marriage vote".
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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)
To: Phlap
That is a hilarious headline.
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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.)
To: Iron Munro
To: Phlap
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posted on
11/04/2009 6:41:19 AM PST
by
petercooper
(GOP: Big Tent Party??? Not if you are a CONSERVATIVE.)
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.
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posted on
11/04/2009 6:41:59 AM PST
by
rockrr
(Everything is different now...)
To: kevkrom
Ballroom, bathroom, I am sure one can find both at a queer hang out...
Probably several of each...
To: Sloth
I wonder if they lost their deposit? Cleaning up all that dejection that filled the ballroom.
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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)
To: Phlap
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.
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posted on
11/04/2009 6:42:28 AM PST
by
La Lydia
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..
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posted on
11/04/2009 6:42:50 AM PST
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
To: Phlap
“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.
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posted on
11/04/2009 6:43:07 AM PST
by
RobRoy
(The US today: Revelation 18:4)
To: Phlap
Poor things. I guess they went home to lay their heads on their carpets and cry.
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posted on
11/04/2009 6:46:53 AM PST
by
reagan_fanatic
(Hope....Change...Food Stamps!)
To: Sloth
No ball room.
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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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