[Luis Gonzalez]

"Missouri voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment Tuesday to ban gay marriage"

Way to go Missouri.

[Paleo Conservative]

Can we put Missouri in to the Bush column rather than the leans Bush column now?

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Damn...and I just invested 50K on a gerbil ranch outside of St Louis.

[goldstategop]

"Ultimately we're right and they're simply wrong."

Liberal arrogance. To them the folks in flyover country are dumb hicks who don't bow to their special brand of wisdom. And they wonder why they keep having their rear ends handed to them. Its statements like this that reveal how out of touch they are with mainstream American values.

[thegreatbeast]

Way to go, MO!

[NormsRevenge]

About the Constitution Defense League

The Constitution Defense League is a coalition of statewide groups that incorporated in March of this year to defeat the Amendment. The coalition includes a number of organizations that work for equality before the law for all Missourians:

PROMO, Missouri's statewide advocacy group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender equality

The American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri

The Four Freedom's Democratic Club

Columbia/ Mid-MO LGBT Coalition

Our strategy is one of aggressive voter identification, education, mobilization, and fundraising throughout the state. We are also coordinating a massive volunteer recruitment and organization effort from our offices in St. Louis and Kansas City.

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Let's hope they're this successful in November. ;-)

[Charles Henrickson]

In the spirit of the famous Variety headline, "HIX NIX STIX PIX," I offer the following:

MO 'NO GO' HOMO BLO

[aodell]

Just wait until this is taken to court. Some judges bent on legislating from the bench will overturn it faster than you can say "real justice is dead."

[conshack]

Although the ban was widely expected to pass in conservative Missouri

If Missouri is so conservative, how come the pubbles always consider it a "swing state"?

[concerned about politics]

The amendment had garnered 70 percent of the vote

About the same % as the whole country.
Too bad the people of Massachusetts didn't get their right to speak. They were simply ordered to obey. I feel sorry for the normal people stuck in Gomorrah.

[longtermmemmory]

Typical AP spin. This also bans polygamy marriage. This also ban animal marriage with humans.

This is not a ban as much as a codifying common law definitions.

[lstanle]

" Then Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Oklahoma, Oregon and Utah are to vote on the issue Nov. 2. "

I think this would help conservative voter turnout in these states which should help GW.

[surelyclintonsbaddream]

The great thing about this is;

Matt Blunt fought for this election to be held in Nov when more people turned out, to help the Conservatives. He obviously lost and it was held yesterday.
The paper today said the turnout was higher Democrat because of the Holden/McC... race. So, even with higher Democratic turn out, just looking at the #'s last night, it seems only Columbia, St Louis City, & KC were under 50% and they were around 46%. This means even the demo's voted conservative on this.

[kt56]

HOW DOES THE PRO MARRAIGE VOTE, THE CARCATERS NOW INVOLVED IN THE GENERAL ELECTION AND CCW IN MISSOURI HAVE ANY CONNECTION? READ ON.

We had a very interesting election here in the big MO. It didn't surprise me that the amendment to ban gay marriage passed with 70% of the vote. Only the "alternate life styles" advocates in St Louis and Kansas Cities would have voted against it.

On the other hand, it was those same areas where the vote for Prop B, for CCW, was defeated some years ago. Makes you wonder were the rest of "us" were on that one.

I'll get to that issue shortly as all of this ties in.

Allow me to comment on the gubernatorial primary. With the help of PRO-gun voters, Governor Holden was defeated by Claire McCaskill, current State Auditor. THAT'S RIGHT WITH PRO GUN HELP!! Why on earth would we want to do that? The results speak for themselves. If Holden had won the primary it was calculated that his defeat in the general election was certain. Apparently the demo-rats were of the same mind.

And here's the CCW tie in. To make matters even more interesting, Becky Cook, current Secretary of State defeated Ken Jacob, Dem Lt Governor candidate, who we believed would be just as venerable as Holden, and consequently was the benificiay of our "help" as well. Becky Cooks' legacy in the struggle for freedom and upholding ALL of the Constitution is best described by one of Missiouri's favorite Pro Constitution sons, Mr. Tim Oliver. I post his pre-election comments, with his website for reference, below.

"Becky Cook was the Secretary of State, appointed by Gov. Carnahan, who, in my humble opinion, screwed our wheels off twice on LTC, first on changing the wording of the ballot language and later in the vote count. There was massive voter fraud in St. Louis City and County, and we filed the appropriate forms to have the voter fraud investigated. Her office "investigated" for approximately 24 hours. She then announced that there had been some voter fraud, but not enough to affect the outcome of the Prop. B Debacle election.
The Russians have a saying that applies to Becky Cook's counting of the Prop B vote:"
"We don't care who votes, we care who counts the votes!"
Tim Olivers Learn To Carry News

For my fellow Missourians and other interested parties, the crux of the matter is....we still have a long way to go. The passing of the ban on gay marriage is a tremendous victory, but.....
complacency could result in another administration that will do everything it can to roll back and usurp the Constitution, and the principles upon whicn it was founded, including our 2nd Amendment rights.

From what I've heard about Matt Blunt, Republican winner for Governor, he is with us. I'm not to sure about Peter Kinder, Republican winner for Lt. Governor, but I intend to find out.