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06.02.2009 2:19pm EDT
(Concord, NH) After a crushing two-vote defeat, gay marriage supporters hope to succeed Wednesday when a second vote is taken on expanded religious protections needed to win the New Hampshire governor’s signature.
The vote could be supporters’ last chance this year to make New Hampshire the sixth state to allow gays to marry.The Senate, which takes up the protection bill first, is expected to pass it. But the vote in the 400-member House will depend on attendance. Both sides have been lobbying representatives hard.
Mo Baxley, executive director of the New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Coalition, has planned a rally outside the Statehouse Wednesday morning to urge lawmakers to pass the bill.
I guess tomorrow we will know who really supports us and who was merely pretending.
Seeing that ex-VP Cheeney just came out in support of Same Sex Marriage then Republicans shouldn’t have a problem with voting for it in New Hampshire or any other state. Let’s see just how supportive Republicans are of their own ex-VP.
Best of Luck tomorrow New Hampshire.
Cheney states, ‘Freedom for everyone’, but states that he thinks it should be left to the states to decide if gay marriage is for them. I’m conflicted, doesn’t freedom for all mean exactly what is said, freedom for ALL 50 states? Let’s hope that his half-ass answer to the gay marriage question is enough to water-down the fierce conservative Republicans and get gay marriage passed not only in NH, but throughout the US. Good luck NH!!
I can’t believe that the USA has the states individually legislate marriage.
That is as inbred as a Tennisee republican.
Bruce
“I can’t believe that the USA has the states individually legislate marriage.”
Be glad otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten this far yet. The right wingnuts are a dying breed but they’re not dead yet.
Just in time for the summer, the marriage bill will die for another year due to the rigid and ignorant gays who want everything their way. Good grief New Hampshire! How did all of this get out of control? STUPIDITY is the only way to describe some gays who cannot see beyond to the future. Start with this bill and down the road it can always be amended. As a former New Englander, I can’t understand why common sense is being cast aside. Please don’t argue the point that this is a war against one person. Left-wing gays should be purged from the Democratic Party as they are no better than the extreme right. For those more intelligent politicos, due what you can to save the marriage bill with its amendment just to satisfy the governor and bigoted clergy. Modern religion is all politics in this day and age so who wants to get married in one! I rest my case.
This has been going on and on for long enough now – pass the fucking bill already – NO MORE AMENDMENTS OR DALAYS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!
ugh!
hurry up already!