[Arkinsaw]

"We can't let that happen again."

I'm amazed at their naivete. This will happen EVERY time it comes up and no amount of organization and no amount of huge funding will change it.

[Arkinsaw]

Some opponents of the amendments accused Republicans of using gay marriage as a tool to draw out large numbers of conservative voters in November.

Who started banging the drum on this issue this year? Bangind, and banging, and banging? Well, its all that banging that irritated people and energized opposition. Duh.

[AD from SpringBay]

The spending had been lopsided here, with supporters of gay marriage spending $450,000 to fight the measure with television advertising and polling, compared with $19,000 spent by opponents.

Gotta love it when the sodomites waste a cool half-mil!

[ottothedog]

Great post! It just goes to show that the libs have to resort to anti-democratic means (i.e. judges) to get their agenda through anymore. When it is put to a vote, it goes down flaming.

[jocon307]

"Opponents...said that they were distressed, even hurt...but that they planned to study exactly what had happened...to learn which strategies had worked and which failed."

Let me help them, no charge! Marriage between a man and a woman (no matter how screwy they or it is) works, "marriage" between two men or two women (or whatever!) fails as a concept.

What part of biological reproduction and its cosmic importance do these people refuse to grasp?

[Dont Mention the War]

Supporters of amendments to ban gay marriage in state like Ohio pointed to Missouri's record election turnout - 41 percent in a primary election that in most years draws 15 percent to 25 percent - as a clear and exhilarating sign that the issue will lure their voters to the polls in November. ...... "This is what the Democrats biggest fear was - that something would energize the people of faith. And it has."

And how many of those are going to vote for Kerry? Two percent? Ha ha ha haaaaa!

[Always Right]

"This is a deliberate effort to energize the right-wing base," said Ron Schlittler, the executive director of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

LOL, that is the whole point of campaigns, to energize your base. The left is just pissed the right found a nuclear bomb to use for this November....

[steplock]

BAN HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGES

- they are NOT gay people!

[Always Right]

The left is gonna accuse the right of politicing elections....

[MarkL]

Few had anticipated the scale of the turnout either. In state records kept since 1980, there had never been comparable participation in an August primary.

Which is exactly why the supporters wanted it on the primary ballot, rather than the general election ballot, when (they thought) there would be a higher turn-out.

The supporters say that they're shocked by the results. That makes sense, since the only people that they tend to "hang out with" are others of their type. They simply don't understand that there IS a "silent majority" who believes in more traditional values.

Mark

[TXBlair]

Huh. You mean the entire country ISN'T swept up in the stench of gay mania that has enveloped New England and the west coast? Surely you're not suggesting that the same-sex marriage pushers are out of touch with mainstream America?! You, sir, can shove it!

[michealschultz14527]

let them get marreid

[day10]

Good - maybe now they'll go away and keep to themselves.

[TXBlair]

I question the timing of this vote.....

[Conservababe]

I am a resident of Missouri and I have a different take on this assumption that voter turn out was high due to the marriage amendment.

I am in Cape Girardeau, and there was no furor to get the vote out to pass this amendment. I think that the gay and lesbian organizations just miscalculated by putting it in the primary instead of general election, thinking that it would be a low vote turnout and that it would squeak pass. But, interest in statewide offices was high, most of all getting rid of Governor Holden. And just think that if they had waited for the general election, the percentage would be even higher due to larger turnout.

[sweetliberty]

"Still, we were just a little bit out-organized," said Seth Kilbourn, national field director for the Human Rights Campaign, a Washington group that helped pay for the Missouri opposition. "We can't let that happen again."

Hey, morons! Could it be that the people have told you sicko queers loud and clear that they want no part of your perversion, and they certainly don't want to legitimize it? Why not just get over it and slither back into the closet where you belong?

[sweetliberty]

"This is what the Democrats biggest fear was - that something would energize the people of faith. And it has."

Yeah, the devil always hates it when people of faith get shaken from their complacency and take a stand.

[Prime Choice]

Opponents of the amendments said that they were distressed, even hurt, by the outcome in Missouri...

Heaven forfend that the homosexual lobby have its feelings hurt.

Give it up, gays. You can still write your Living and Last Wills to designate anyone you like as your durable power of attorney and beneficiary. Stop trying to horn in on the sanctity of marriage under the guise that you don't already have those very basic legal rights.

[EdReform]

Ping

[ez]

Take note, Karl Rove. Nothing like gay marriage to bring out the religious vote.