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To: Rannug
Then WHY is it voted resoundingly down everywhere We The People are allowed to vote on it?
5 posted on 05/13/2013 12:33:52 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Puppage

RE: Then WHY is it voted resoundingly down everywhere We The People are allowed to vote on it?

I wish I shared your optimism. in November 2012 Maine voted in favor of a law allowing same sex couples to marry.

In California, the percentage of those who are opposed to proposition 8 has been dwindling from a huge majority to a bare majority.


11 posted on 05/13/2013 12:40:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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It used to be. Blue states are now voting for it. Red states like NC are still resoundingly defeating it.

I cannot think of another issue that seen such a sea change in a few short years. Unfortunately, those of us against it stopped fighting about 5 years ago because preserving marriage looked politically settled. The proponents of change went into overdrive starting with the H8 campaign in Califoria and really moved the needle...making it a ‘civil rights’ issue. Our side needs to learn lessons from this situation because I think we laughed off that stupid campaign and didn’t take it seriously.


14 posted on 05/13/2013 12:42:38 PM PDT by ilgipper (The lesson for the GOP is simple - don't let the opposition define you)
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It no longer is.

We are the minority opinion now.


15 posted on 05/13/2013 12:42:51 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by Nature, not Nurture™)
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It’s not. Sadly, the last election showed how very low this country has sunk.


43 posted on 05/13/2013 1:32:17 PM PDT by madprof98
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Actually, 1. We are not a rule by the mob democracy, 2. Three states voted by ballot initiative in three states lastNovember. But hey, the sheeple should rule in place of a representative Republic. /sarc


61 posted on 05/14/2013 8:26:16 AM PDT by Clemenza ("History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil governm)
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