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One year ago, religious and civic organizations in California worked laboriously to overturn a Supreme Court decision to allow gay marriages in the state. Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment defining marriage as being between a man and a woman, passed by more than 52% of the vote. Fifty two percent of Latinos voted “yes” on Proposition 8.
On May of this year John Baldacci, Governor of Maine, signed a legislation that allows homosexual couples to wed. On September 2 opposition groups lead by the organization Stand for Marriage, delivered the 55,087 signatures necessary to put the legislation to a vote. Question 1 on the November 3 ballot would decide to repeal or uphold the legislation signed by the governor. A “yes” vote meant to repeal the legislation and ban gay marriage and a “no” vote would uphold such legislation.
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Frank Schubert, campaign organizer of Question 1, claimed victory with 52 percent of the votes and more than 84 percent of the precincts reporting.
Maine became the 31st state to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman by popular vote. The campaign against Question 1, Protect Maine Equality, 1 raised $4 million compared with $2.5 million raised by Stand for Marriage Maine that lead the “yes on 1” campaign.
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Barack Obama is a bigot. He supports civil unions for gays but does not support gay marriage. Gays must call him a bigot, too.
Gay and straight liberals want to redefine the institution of marriage for gays but not for polygamists. That makes them bigots and hypocrites. They won't join in solidarity with the pro-polygamy groups and organizations that are working to overturn anti-polygamy laws, nor will they join in solidarity with the estimated 30,000-100,000 polygamists in America.
Then again, if gay and straight liberals did join forces with them in solidarity, that would show just how radical they truly are, and just how radically they want to redfine the institution of marriage.
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