Same-Sex Marriage on Ballot in Four States
Same-Sex Marriage on Ballot in Four States
(first of a two column series)
By Mike McManus
September 13, 2012
In May President Obama told ABC "I think that same-sex couples should be able to get married." I stuck my neck out and predicted, "Barack Obama made himself a one-term president" by taking that stand. The day before he spoke, North Carolina became the 32nd consecutive state to vote down same-sex marriage, and it did so by a thumping 22 percent, partly due to strong black opposition.
Every state allowing men to marry men, or women, women - did so as a result of a law passed by the legislature or by court decision. Whenever the public could vote on the issue, same-sex marriage was defeated - even in liberal California where Prop 8 limiting marriage to a man and a woman passed 53-47 in 2008 when Obama defeated McCain overwhelmingly. Maine's Legislature voted for same-sex marriage in 2009, but it was overturned in a referendum in 2010.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
(first of a two column series)
By Mike McManus
September 13, 2012
In May President Obama told ABC "I think that same-sex couples should be able to get married." I stuck my neck out and predicted, "Barack Obama made himself a one-term president" by taking that stand. The day before he spoke, North Carolina became the 32nd consecutive state to vote down same-sex marriage, and it did so by a thumping 22 percent, partly due to strong black opposition.
Every state allowing men to marry men, or women, women - did so as a result of a law passed by the legislature or by court decision. Whenever the public could vote on the issue, same-sex marriage was defeated - even in liberal California where Prop 8 limiting marriage to a man and a woman passed 53-47 in 2008 when Obama defeated McCain overwhelmingly. Maine's Legislature voted for same-sex marriage in 2009, but it was overturned in a referendum in 2010.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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