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Gay Marriage Close to Legal in Maryland

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Gay marriage is all but legalized in Maryland with the legislature giving its final OK Thursday to the law that is awaiting the expected signature of the governor.

The state Senate voted 25-22 for the law. The vote comes less than a week after the House of Delegates barely passed the measure.

Maryland will become the eighth state to allow gay marriage when Gov. Martin O’Malley – who sponsored the bill – signs the legislation.

Opponents, though, have vowed to bring the measure to referendum in November. They will need to gather at least 55,726 valid signatures of Maryland voters to put it on the ballot and can begin collecting names now that the bill has passed both chambers.

Senators rejected some amendments to the legislation Thursday. Proponents warned that amending the bill could kill it because gathering enough support for altered legislation in the House would be difficult.

Last year senators passed a similar measure by 25-21, but the bill died in the House after delegates rescinded their initial support citing concerns that it could violate religious liberties of churches and business owners who do not support same-sex unions.

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  • MAC12ME
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:09am

    The fact that the Constitution says nothing about marriage; says not a word of definition only leads me to believe that the Founders were all in agreement that marriage was indeed the legal union of one man and one woman. Think about it. Does anyone think they had one conversation or debate about the definition of marriage? Don’t mess with universal institutions please. I’m not anti-gay. Far from it. I believe that marriage means something. And if you change it for some, you change it for all.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 9:56am

      I’v traced my family back 5 generations to 1792 and my dad was the last born in Maryland in 1919. They were all conservatives, so I assume for my dad to move to Texas, it went nuts about 1940. Maryland the home of all before me is now on my No Fly List. I won’t go there are take my grand kids there. If a vender on e-bay , Amazon, or from a cataloge has my needs I will do with out or buy elsewhere.

       
    • B_rad
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:29pm

      Marriage is not mentioned in the constitution because it is none of the government’s business who enters into a legal contract with another. Yes, marriage has a religious definition, and I certainly don’t want to force any religion to accept something against their teachings. But marriage is also the merger of two equals. It is a secular, civil legal contract that conveys rights of a familial relationship to the betrothed. How can freedom and liberty be preserved when the government gets to tell us who can and cannot enter into a legal agreement? (Obviously, age and mental state aside.)

      Nearly all the legal benefits of marriage can be obtained through other contracts that convey those rights. And since the gov. cannot prevent two people of the same sex from coupling, there is NO benefit to the country or to traditional marriage and families to prevent SS couples from enjoying the same rights and privileges as any hetero union. Call it merger or civil unions instead of marriage, but provide EQUAL protection under the law.

      Be anti-gay all you want, but there is no justification for the gov having any say in who marries whom. Conversely, there is absolutely no justification for the gay left to use the marital rights argument to force churches or church-run orgs into doing anything against their beliefs. The point of gov is to preserve the rights of the individual, not impose one set of values upon those who disagree. That goes both ways, people.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 3:32pm

      @B_RAD
      Right on point. The only thing I would add is keep it private and out of my face! I don‘t care who you choose to live with or what you do sexually just don’t indoctranate my children.

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    • tarm778
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 5:24pm

      @ Cuinsong

      You don’t get it tho. Indoctrination is what this is all about.
      Read and look for yourself.
      http://massresistance.org/

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    • B_rad
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:32pm

      I certainly don’t want to indoctrinate children with anything about homosexuality, tho the progressive agenda certainly uses it in conjunction with all their nonsense. We don’t need to be teaching homosexuality OR heterosexuality to kids in schools, they will figure it out for themselves. Parents need to be teaching their children from young ages (age appropriate language and context, of course) about what sex is and what the consequences are, in accordance to their own values. The progressives use the schools to push their agenda and that includes indoctrination about sexuality – both orientations. Planned Parenthood and their ilk have convinced enough people to let schools push their agendas on our kids, and parents have gladly abdicated their responsibility. Parents, take the responsibility yourselves and tell the schools to shove it, regardless if they are teaching homosexuality or not. The only thing that should be taught is tolerance of others. Teach your kids your values, but stop teaching them to hate others for their differences. I don’t expect you to condone my behavior or my lifestyle, but I do expect tolerance and I have every right to demand it. I don’t condone straight people shacking up or making babies without an intact home with a mom and a dad, but I tolerate the people who do it and don’t treat them poorly. I have every right to expect the same.

      Kids ARE being indoctrinated in 1000 ways by progressives. Gays aren’t the prob, progressives are.

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  • MAC12ME
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:03am

    You can believe in same sex marriage or you can believe that children need both a mother and a father. You cannot believe both.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 11:19am

      It‘s a shame all these Queers and Lizzies parents wern’t fagg_ts!

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    • B_rad
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:41pm

      @Mac, you’re wrong here too. I believe in SS unions AND I believe that children should be raised in an intact home by a married mom and dad. There can be no doubt that the BEST possible scenario for children is to be raised with the juxtaposition of the male and female interaction. I find it reprehensible when anyone, gay OR straight, intentionally creates a child without first making a nest that is the best possible scenario for that child. Got news for you, my friend, a lot more straight people (by percentage, as well as real numbers) are creating children w/o the ideal than gays. That being said, it is also reprehensible that good people, whether single or in a commited gay relationship should be prevented from rescuing children that were tragically left w/o good parents to care for them. It is a blessing when anyone who cares can rescue a child from a broken, failing foster care system. I have no problem with adoption law that gives preference to a qualified straight couple over single people and commited gays, but DO NOT prevent children from being rescued because someone is gay.

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  • MAC12ME
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:01am

    The biggest problem with legalizing same sex marriage (there really is no such thing… no phrase in the law) is that if I believe that marriage is between a man and a woman only, and homosexual couples can legally marry, then I will be seen as a bigot. And I’m not a bigot. That’s a problem.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 10:57am

      No ypou are a bigot still in the closet.

      You have tortured logic to come to these various “points” you have attempted to make. The Founders were silent, so unless we can read the minds of people dead for over two hundred years they have no opinion on the matter. Marriage is a matter for state law to define, if state law defines marraige inclusively, than it includes same sex mariage.

      The ultimately, there is nothing in the Constitution that prevents consenting adults from entering into committed relationships and the 14th Amendment demands that the states treat their citizens equally. Also the case law, such as the Supreme Court case Loving v. Va. also supports same se x marriage. History is moving towards all citizens being treated equally under the law, bigots like you and other Conservative Christians are nothing more than pebbles in the road and history marches forward.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 3:14pm

      @Encinom
      It’s people like you who are the real bigots! you go around putting people down and disagreeing with their post by hurling the bigot mantra that you so proudly covet as cover for your own bigotry toward others. If any body disagrees with the gay agenda its bigot time.
      I really don’t think you know what a bigot is!
      The definition of a bigot is intolerance of other opinions especially political opinions! You seem to fit that definition rather well, don’t you?
      The definition points out the difference between an opinion about a subject v’s an intolerance to the opinion‘s of others!
      You gay’s have always been intolerant of other opinions contrary to yours and try to shut people down by calling them names because you can’t win any other way!
      No! Mac is not the bigot you and your kind are full of bigotry to the top!

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 3:18pm

      @Encinom
      By the way bigot this song is for you!
      “Their Wrong” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_12090926

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  • Tankertony
    Posted on February 24, 2012 at 12:08am

    In the end, us bible-wielding religious ‘nuts’ will prevail over this abomination. Hell, even the majority of californians know the truth and are on our side.

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  • RedSoloCup
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:53pm

    I see they busted Encinom the Not-So-Magnificent’s girlfriend:
    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/radical-animal-rights-activist-arrested-for-soliciting-undercover-hitman-willing-to-kill-someone-wearing-fur/#comments

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  • Git-R-Done
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:18pm

    Don‘t believe these liars of same sex marriage who claim that they won’t go after religious institutions and private businesses who disagree with same sex marriage. They will eventually go after them when they have enough political momentum.

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    • Smokey_Bojangles
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 5:16am

      Shame of it is,I am not against same sex marriage,but I agree wit you.Hopefully our First Amendment is strong enough to stand against this expected onslaught from the militant gays and the Communist president.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:50pm

      You have a valid point, and that is the real problem with this whole debate. The BIG gay left is pushing their master’s (progressivism) agenda while asking for something reasonable. The entire point of government, or even law, is to protect the rights of the individual. While the left is overstepping by trying to force private institutions and citizens to embrace SSM, the right is equally overstepping by attempting to prevent individuals from enjoying the benefits of a legal contract. I’m not usually a centrist, but on this issue I’m pretty much in the middle. Allow SS couples to share in equal protection under the law, and prevent the gov from imposing any restrictions or demands upon the church. Protect rights, don’t impose values.

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  • RightThinking1
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:15pm

    The decay of civilization continues.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:50pm

      No, the promises of Jefferson words about all men being equal with certain unalienable rights has come one step closer to being a truth.

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    • thefnshow
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:03am

      encinom,you do understand the purpose of marriage right ?

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    • RedSoloCup
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:47am

      Encinom wouldn’t know even if it bit him/her/it right on the ass.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 10:21am

      thefnshow
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:03am
      encinom,you do understand the purpose of marriage right ?
      ______________________
      Two consenting adults entering into a committed relationship, with certain rights and obligations.

      If you mean to give birth to children are you proposing fertility tests for heterosexual couples prior to them entering into a marriage, automatic divorices if the couple can no longer produce children.

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    • Locked
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:15pm

      “you do understand the purpose of marriage right ?”

      Oh, I know this one. To settle inheritance and property rights!

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  • The Jewish Avenger
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:08pm

    55,726 valid signatures? Bet they can do it in 6 days.

    25-22… figures…

    Let the people speak so we know how the voters feel before they get a slimeball to say its unconstitutional and reverse the peoples vote.
    Comnig in November, Maines 4th! Gay marriage vote. Shot it down three times, legislature made it law anyways, went to peoples vote, Gays spent 5 million, private contributions totaled 1.5 million vote 53% said FOR THE FOURTH TIME IN TEN YEARS!!!! NO GAY MARRIAGE IN MAINE! Coming in November 2012… Gay marriage vote again… This time watch… 425,000 for gay marraige, 275,000 against, total registered voters in Maine? about 400,000. Pingrees sugar daddy and soreass should be dumping their lifesavings this time to lie their way for a win… again watch and see.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:48pm

      Human rights should never be subject to a popular vote.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 11:41pm

      So RedCup do you actually have a valid point or the extent of your debating skills is to hurl childish insults?

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 3:40am

      Encinom – You do nothing but spew out insults, hypocrite.

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    • Smokey_Bojangles
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 5:17am

      We are a Republic.NOTHING should be decided by popular vote.

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    • Zenzazin
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:04pm

      maybe we should take another vote to see if we should reinstate slavery? following the logic of blaze readers, if there is a majority of people who want to subjugate and treat a different group of citizens as less-than (especially as long as that majority follows christian dogma), it is ok? the constitution exists so that people like you can’t force your bigoted views on the rest of us. If you really don’t like gay marriage, then don’t get one.

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  • republic2011
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:51pm

    Legalize this tomorrow and get rid of the argument. We have not business regulating marriage at the Federal Level. This is fodder for the left and social conservatives are taking the bait. Stop bastardizing our constitution to legislate morality at the Federal level. The definition of Marriage is not in our constitution and either is it a power entrusted to the Federal government to regulate. What you think of gay marriage has nothing to do with it. It is about personal liberty. When the conservatives trample all over the constitution, they give the left all the fire power they need to keep re-electing the progressive trash that got us here.

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  • Chet Hempstead
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:53pm

    Hooray, the good guys win another one. Get used to it. Ten years from now same sex marriage will be legal in an overwhelming majority of the states. It will be a source of humiliation for decent people to have to admit that they come from a home state so bigoted and backward that they haven’t been able to legalize it yet.

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:16pm

      @Chet Hemp instead
      Howdy p*t smoking, p**p shooting, p**p smoocher. I guess you read the Communist Manifesto and just fell in love with it. The reason your mind is so taken over by sickness is the guilt you feel for abandining your fellow Human Beings and doing the most perverted things to your Brother that is One with you. Your self imposed guilt will give you aids and hiv. Enjoy your own self imposed sickness.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:19pm

      Except what you consider to be good isn’t based on anything.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 12:53am

      The-Monk
      Sorry, dude I’m not even gay, I just hate bigots. The only way I’m going to catch AIDS from doing perverted things is if your mom slips me a roofy.

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  • JJBlazeReader
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:49pm

    ..

    Not surprised – they always voted for Senator Barbara Mikulski ;-)

    ..

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  • NC
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:08pm

    I’ve been crunching numbers since reading this article.

    Total population in Maryland 5.5 million

    Maryland has 10% of it’s residence as federal employees or 550,000.

    The ballot referendum needs 55,726 signatures or one percent of the population.

    Mary;and has 56% registered Democrats, 35% registered Republicans, and 9% independents/not allifialted.

    One percent of the population or 25% of the registered Republicans can put a stop to this in November.

    It’s late in the evening for this old man and my numbers may not match up, but hopefully my research will not fall on deaf ears.

    NC (bidding a gay [old school gay] evening to all)

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    • HorseCrazy
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:15pm

      yes I miss the proper use of the word gay myself

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:29pm

      No, if anything the putting on the ballot ensure a higher number of Democrates coming to the polls to defeat the bigots in the GOP.

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    • The Jewish Avenger
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 10:24pm

      As Maine goes so does the country. For the last 10 years… Gays have pelted Mainers to vote for gay marriage and each time have shot it down. Gays have the liberal endless money pit and they dumped MILLIONS in campaigns and smear tactics. Did I also mention the death threats and vandalism on anyone or any place that speaks out against it? And boy oh boy when they do, the newspaper and right behind them smearing whoever said it. But if a gay does that… the crickets are chirping and if anyone points it out… they’re HOMOPHOBIC *GASP*!!!!

      Trust me, no one is scared of the gays… just don’t bleed on them.

      And yet… for 10 years we have stayed the course and told them NO…. They made legislation pass a bill…Won. We got the signatures and at 53% we said no… where are the other 47%? In District one… Portland south… city welfare reliant collective thinking zombieville.

      So.. think they’d take a hint?.. nope…

      So what happens? Strategic surgery…
      We just passed a law saying we cant ask for proof that you live in Maine so guess what came in one month after that? Over 100,000 signatures to make gay marriage legal in Maine… how about that!!!!

      So if cheating lying stealing a states honor is your idea of how to win, then you lost before the vote was even cast… Gay marriage will pass this time. Too much money and too much people in power in the right spots to trick the numbers. But we will remember it was all done through smoke mirrors money a

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:06pm

    I’m about as conservative as they come but found myself duped awhile back. I voted for my state to legalize same sex unions giving couples all of the benefits provided to married couples. Silly me when the governor of my state of WA decides she is going to take up a vote about gay marraige even though we already have civil unions for the gay couples, because now the republican gov candidate and current ag of my state is high in the polls and most likely going to win. She used the gays to make the election about a “social” issue. I was naive and stupid to think that same sex unions would be the end of this. It never has been about gay marraige. they just want the dems to stay in office and make this all about social issues. If I was gay I would be disgusted that I was being used as a political tool.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:03pm

    MARY-LAND… will be home to the Tutu Parade!

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  • cuinsong
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:58pm

    The problem with gay marriage is simple, you can’t have two men/women procreate. As long as I can remember they have been trying to force their life style down our throat’s even though their sexual practices are repugnant to heterosexuals.
    All the discussions about gay relationships center around the rights of people to form relations like married people have but they leave out the details of what that involves. The sex act as performed by gays is anything but normal. I’m sorry but that is the truth.
    Bottom line is that gay’s are all about sexual gratification not family and rearing children for the furtherance of the species. So the next time someone ask you if you approve of gay rights stop and think about what they are really asking you to approve of.
    They are asking you to approve of, and accept the way they have sex as normal not just the appearance of living like married couples!
    I am not unsympathetic to the importance of a loving relationship but gay’s are not the only people who are searching for love others have needs they keep to their self and do not push it on society. This song is for them. http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_11192493

    equal does not mean special rights for gays so they can put it in your face and then if you do not agree Hassel you with a hate crime charge. Give me a break as long as people want to have special rights to practice some deviate behavior in public our society will suffer moral decay. We need to have standards

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    • The-Monk
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:16pm

      @cuinsong
      A Monks view:

      A Man and a Woman can have sex, procreate and it does not kill them.
      A Woman and a Woman can have sex, they can‘t procreate and it doesn’t kill them.
      A Man and a Man can have sex, cannot procreate and it can (and does) kill them.

      The Natural Laws of Nature will “straighten” these thing out.

      “Just because Rainbows are curved; doesn’t mean they are not straight”
      “Free the Rainbows!”

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    • smartass
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:20pm

      Your argument is so full of uninformed assumptions. For example:

      Give me a break as long as people want to have special rights to practice some deviate behavior in public our society will suffer moral decay. We need to have standards

      I believe it’s against the law for anyone, hetersexual or homosexual, to practice deviate behavior in public.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:34pm

      @SMARTASS
      I would refer you to the Gay pride parades these deviates put on all over the U.S. where their atrocious behavior is on display for the world (and children) to see but no law enforcement is to be seen you idiot!
      Yes they do things in public! Don’t make me get graphic

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 9:26pm

      Lots of married couples can’t have a baby of their own, but they are still considered to have valid and meaningful marriages. Lots of married couples who can’t have their own children are raising families, and so can same sex couples. But for some reason whenever this subject comes up, people suddenly decide that procreation is not only the main purpose of marriage but also the most important part of parenthood. It’s not, it’s the least important. Half the problems we have in this country are caused by people who realized that too late.

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 11:22pm

      Chet,

      You are a conundrum. (Which is typical of most liberals, so no offense intended).

      How do you justify these comments, when compared to your usual “Hooray – abortion is the best thing since sliced bread” posts?

      ???????????

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 12:02am

      @CHET
      Its not about having children as much as its about what they do in the bedroom. They want their sexual activities to be excepted as normal. Then they want to indoctrinate our children so they will also think it is ok to have this kind of sex even if it is life threatening! I’m sorry that you do not have the ability to understand the reasons I feel like I do but This has been a long time battle with gays about acceptance of their life style and it has always been about what they do in the bedroom not whether they can raise a child.
      It is not OK with me to teach children that sodomy is normal or that sticking some ones penis in your mouth is a normal activity and if you don’t understand that I feel sorry for you.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:05am

      Therightsofbilly
      It’s very simple. I’m for abortion because I think that there are too damn many people, but I’m also for having children in reasonable numbers because I want to see our species continue. Right now, there are enough children being conceived by people who are unable to care for them that we could abort most of them and still have some left for the people who are unable to have children but fit to raise them. What part of that do you find so complicated?

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:08am

      cuinsong
      I was responding to the cuinsong who wrote “The problem with gay marriage is simple, you can’t have two men/women procreate.” I don’t usually bother wasting my time arguing with people like the cuinsong who wrote “Its not about having children as much as its about what they do in the bedroom.”

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    • Therightsofbilly
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:30am

      Ahh, you got me there Chet,

      I guess what I find so complicated is how one mind can be so disturbed and totally devoid of any morals whatsoever.

      Are you an environmentalist Chet?

      To me you seem like you could be that woman in yesterdays stories that would pay a hit man $85.00 to kill a 12 year old child for wearing fur.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 1:54am

      @CHET
      Well chet I guess when you get down to the nuts and bolts, the truth is undeniably hard to defend against!
      You do not want to talk about the real disgusting part only the PC part. Clean it up and sanitize it for public consumption but don’t get into the sex act’s that are most repugnant to normal people RIGHT chet?
      Do you really think your superior attitude completes your argument?
      How stupid and closed minded you must be! Your tiny brain must be lonely!
      I don’t care what standard you think is worthy of your comments but from this exchange you must feel somewhat enlighten I would think!

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 2:11am

      Therightsofbilly
      I figure about half the people in this country are pro-choice and have the same views as I do about gay rights. But say it’s less. Maybe you’re only saying that about 30% of your fellow citizens are disturbed and totally devoid of any morals. Is that what you’re saying? As far as I can tell the only reason that you would have for getting your panties in a twist about me in particular is that I’m blunt-spoken. I will say abortion is good, I’m for it instead of hemming and hawing and saying that it’s a regrettable necessity and pretending to believe in a utopian vision of a world where people will behave so responsibly that it will no longer be necessary. So what? That’s what blogs and fake names are for, everybody is blunt-spoken here. I doubt that all of the people here on your side stand around the water cooler raving about murder and genocide and claiming that America is bringing down the judgment of wrathful God on our heads. I suspect that you would probably be embarrassed to hang out with them if they did and would try to gently disassociate yourself from their outspoken fanaticism.

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    • Chet Hempstead
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 2:16am

      cuinsong
      I don’t talk about what you call the disgusting part because I don’t regard it as any of my business or yours. Your repugnance at what gives pleasure to other people is your problem, not mine or theirs.

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    • Godfather.1
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 3:46am

      @cuinsong

      If gay marriage is legalized, there is nothing that will stop you from being disgusted by the homosexual lifestyle and there is nothing that will stop you from teaching your kids to be intolerant bigots. When slavery and segregation ended did that stop some people from being racist? No, it did not. You can still believe whatever you like and press your children to have any of the same prejudices you do. Legalizing same sex marriage will not prevent you from being a bigot as that cannot be outlawed.

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    • cuinsong
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 12:41pm

      @CHET & GODFATHER
      What goes on in the bedroom between two people is their own business. I have never said they do not have the right to do what ever they want their. Just keep it in the bedroom and not in my face! Gay people can’t stand the fact that they should be private about their sexual preferences and have a need to show off in public! I do not need to publicly show off my sexual preference or demonstrate what I do & nether should you. As to the bigot part I just consider the source to be proudest.
      This is a fight about acceptance and will always be. That is the real agenda!

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    • tmarends
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 3:05pm

      ” I do not need to publicly show off my sexual preference or demonstrate what I do & nether should you”

      If you, as a straight person, has ever held your spouses (or gf/bf) hand in publc… if you have ever kissed them in public, then you are demonstrating and publicly showing off your sexual preference.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on February 24, 2012 at 8:54pm

      Cuinsong, you don’t seem to understand that you have no choice but to accept homosexuality as a reality. You can’t ban it, and even if you could, it’s not going away. I don’t ask you, or anyone else to CONDONE it, only TOLERATE it. You don’t have to be tolerant, but if you take action against someone simply because they’re gay, YOU are the one committing the offense. If I’m in public and hold hands, hug, or give a peck on the cheek to another man, I have done nothing offensive – is that “shoving it in your face?” There are plenty of straight people who act in a far more lude fashion in public. You can hate gays or be anti-gay all you like, you can’t do anything about it. NOTHING. The issue in this article is gay marriage, which doesn’t affect you in the slightest. How could you know, and why would you care, if the gay couple walking down the street is legally united? You can take no action against them regardless, so stop making out that gays are the worst thing ever. Don’t condone it if you wish, but if you don’t tolerate it and act against someone gay, you are the one in the wrong.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:58pm

    Well I guess once all gays can get married in all states, and they get married leaving behind a paper trail, and all kinds of gay people come out of the closet. I guess there will be no question about who the gay people are.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:07pm

      And when there is cameras up everywhere with the ability to identify who people are, I guess it will see gay couples together, and when they use their credit cards in gay bars, they will know who went to a gay bar.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:10pm

      And I guess when all illegal immigrants get drivers licenses and amnesty and leave behind a paper trail, there won’t be any question about who they are and where they live.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:14pm

      And after all that I’m sure they will want to make pedophilia legal, and maybe they will give a pedophile their own I.D card, and then I guess there will be no question about who the pedophiles are either.

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    • Itsjusttim
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:17pm

      I’m sure that all you special groups of people have absolutely no issues with these things.

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  • Mrs. Bowers
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:53pm

    Keep tempting God. They’re not going to be satisfied until he totally lifts His hand of mercy off of our nation.

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:57pm

      As if a make believe god can extend mercy. He is no different tha Oden, Zeus or the host of other historical myths.

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    • smartass
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:02pm

      Love that “good ole fashion religion.” Pass the snake and I will speak in tougues, @^*&*$#@^%##&^.

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  • Chuck Stein
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:46pm

    So, does the Maryland law allow for the protection of churches, etc. (like the New York law did NOT do)?

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  • nighttrainno9
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:44pm

    Another state gone from the union, I still think this country
    needs to be three different countries. Northeast, westcoast
    and the rest of the sane states will live under the constitution.
    The south and the midwest have no common ground with
    the other two. Lets make St.louis or witchita the capital. I’m
    sick of supporting these crazy liberal states with all their wacky ideas.

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  • Bro Geo Too
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:42pm

    `
    It matters not if all of Obama’s 57 states legalize homosexual marriage–it will still be wrong–it will still be perverted–it will still be a democrat stunt to garner votes.

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    • smartass
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:50pm

      You don’t believe in the Constitution then?

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    • encinom
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:55pm

      and the Bigots in the Tea Party are still proving that their quet for a less intrusive government is a hoax.

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  • omgfolks
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:39pm

    Who cares

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  • smartass
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:38pm

    OMG, my marriage, my family, my job, my safety and the dollar are all in jeopardy. now.

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:00pm

      Your but may be in jeopardy if you go to Marryyourhandland.

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    • smartass
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:07pm

      I’ll leave the hand thingy to you, pal.

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:27pm

      Are you afraid they’ll take your JOB away ?
      The alley isn‘t much of a workplace but you’ve got to do something I suppose.

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  • shards of narsil
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:37pm

    good. “it neither breaks my leg, nor picks my pocket”.

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  • hatchetjob
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:33pm

    As our country is being flushed down the commode.

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  • encinom
    Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:33pm

    Another win for liberty and freedom. Also Va just table their unconstitutional, anti-women’s bill becasue of the out cry from the citizens of the State. A banner day for the cause of liberty in the face of religious tyranny.

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    • hatchetjob
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:44pm

      Encinom, Don’t forget to buy a flame retardant suit.

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    • 4truth2all
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 7:47pm

      And they sing their songs and clap their hands in the day of celebration on the escalator to hell.

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on February 23, 2012 at 8:10pm

      Another win for Vaseline and AIDS.

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