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Maryland Governor Signs Bill Legalizing Gay Marriage

Maryland Governor Martin OMalley Legalizes Gay MarriageMaryland Governor Martin O’Malley has signed a measure legalizing gay marriage, joining seven other states and the District of Columbia.

The Maryland Democrat signed the bill Thursday, a week after its final passage in the Legislature. According to the Associated Press, the new law is set to take effect in January 2013.

Opponents, however, are expected to petition the law to a referendum on the November ballot.

“More so than equal rights, more so than fairness, more so than justice or injustice, the word that allowed us to move forward was really dignity: The dignity of every home, the dignity of a job, the dignity of work, the dignity of every family, the dignity of every individual,” O’Malley was quoted as saying. “When we succeed, if this goes to a referendum, I believe it will be because of that evolution of the public discourse.”

AP reports referendum organizers will need to collect almost 56,000 signatures to put the measure before voters and are expected to rely heavily on churchgoers to achieve that goal. Some pastors in predominantly black churches have begun using their sermons to push the referendum.

 

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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  • TexBork
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:23pm

    Good for Marry-Land! I bet they find that it doesn’t actually destroy traditional marriage. Now the homosexuals can also participate in divorce as well. It’ll be in interesting to see if the divorce rate is any different.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:46pm

      Not sure, I think more of their marriages will be open marriages judging from their own comments.

      They argue with a 50% divorce rate that they couldn’t ruin the institution of marriage by being able to marry. If their divorce rate is 55% they will say it is in the margin of error & there is no problem.

      It is like there was an embargo against a nation, which failed to do other countries breaking it. The ‘embargo’ against gay marriage is failing & will fail. Once gays get married I suspect they won’t like it. After a while enough stats will be collected & we will see that it is wrong.

      I kind of think after 3 or so generation of gay marriage, the whole gay thing will go away.

      It will take academia longer than the LGBT population to figure out. they will have to repair the standing of their professions.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 11:26pm

      Walkabout, to address the harm-to-marriage issue, how can gays possibly harm the institution of marriage more than straight people have? Let’s look at all the ways straight people harm marriage and families daily. They shack up and expect the world to treat them as if they’ve made a commitment, they intentionally create babies without an intact, married mom and dad, they marry frivolously with no concept of the commitment they are entering into, they treat their spouses horribly, utterly ignoring the vows they took, they cheat on their spouses, they get bored and move on to find their happiness, usually after creating children, they shack up or remarry with no thought to the devastating effects on their children. I’m sure I could come up with several more, but you get the point. Marriage as been horribly mistreated by the whole of the populace for generations. You could argue the origins of the attacks on marriages as being the progressive movement, feminism, the welfare state, or all of the above, but it’s been going on a long, long time.
      I’m a gay man, and I’d be willing to bet I hold marriage in far higher regard than the majority of posters here or of people in this country. I have longed to be married and have a big family since I was a kid. I planned for it and did everything I could to deny the feelings I had It irritates me to no end to see so many people disrespecting what I so long for.
      SSM is not the danger to marriage so many make it out to be.

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    • Wolf
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 11:58pm

      “…The dignity of every home, the dignity of a job, the dignity of work, the dignity of every family, the dignity of every individual…”
      And where is there diginity in being a queer?

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    • Rayblue
      Posted on March 2, 2012 at 1:12am

      It’s time to dress up and play house.
      Still getting the roles wrong just like misguided kids would.

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    • Locked
      Posted on March 2, 2012 at 7:03am

      I also never understood the fury over gays getting married. Marriage in the US is secular in nature, not religious. People can be “married” in their church and the government won’t give a hoot unless they get a license as well; it’s up to the states to decide what constitutes marriage.

      As for what other people do, I don‘t much care if it doesn’t affect me or mine. Gays want to get married and stay committed to their partner for their entire lives? Fine; nothing wrong with a healthy, consensual, monogamous relationship; it builds economic security, helps mental well-being, and cuts down on the risk of disease transmission. I might not find it in the Bible, but then again the Bible was built on polygamy, not monogamy, so marriage was obviously a fluid concept over the course of its history.

      But I scratch my head when people say “Gay marriage is against my religion, so no gays should be married!” It’s like saying “I’m on a diet, so no one else should be eating donuts either!” Live and let live.

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    • db321
      Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:23pm

      God just wrote in his book the deed of the Governor – his administration, his supporters, his voters and everyone that lives in that State. God did not take this action lightly when Sodom and Gomorrah did – he destroyed the entire city and all in it.

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    • colt1860
      Posted on March 2, 2012 at 4:10pm

      @B_rad Homosexuals harm the institution of marriage by perverting its natural, historical and only purpose and definition, irregardless of what heterosexuals have done within marriage. Marriage is a lifelong covenant and exclusive union between one man and one woman. Granted, marriages today are failing mostly because heterosexuals are en-mass breaking the rules and laws intended for the purpose of marriage. However, most couples that get divorced, are those same individuals who lived a sexually immoral lifestyle before getting married, and those couples who save themselves for marriage, and follow very traditional lifestyles before marriage, have a much higher rate of staying together. I, for the most part, count homesexuality in the same boat with adultery, fornication, incest, beastiality, lewdness, and polygamy. They’re all breaking the natural laws of order established by our Creator. I was born with a quick temper, but as I grew up I learned patience, humility, peace and to get along with people. I’m a man, and I have always desired to have a relationship with every pretty woman I see, but I have learned to not have sex with every woman, to respect women, to save myself for marriage and to treat women with dignity. Just because I was born wanting to have sex with every beautiful women I see, doesn’t mean I have to. There are rules, laws and customs to follow, for very reasonable and necessary reasons. One can‘t let blind love guide one’s actions.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:07pm

      Colt, I have no wish to redefine the term marriage in regards to the religious meaning. Further, since it is a sticking point, I’d be thrilled to refer to them as Civil Unions, or love mergers, or whatever, so long as equal rights and privileges are afforded to all. There are larger definitions of marriage than the strictly religious ones, and that is what I’m saying we must not prevent everyone from enjoying. Marriage, as far as the church is concerned, is up to the respective churches, but the secular legal contract that is marriage must be available to any couple who wishes to knowingly enter into it.

      Insofar as the harm done to the institution of marriage, any two people who love one another and enter into a commitment to care for each other for the rest of their days on this Earth do absolutely no harm to the concept or the institution. It bears no effect upon your marriage, and does nothing to discourage the practice, it promotes it.

      Colt, I completely understand your stance that you refrain from engaging in sex with every attractive woman you see in favor of the one woman you’ve committed to, and I applaud you. I feel the same way, but I want you to try to understand things from my perspective. Imagine you had no attraction for any woman. NONE. Would it be right to deceive a woman, marry her and never desire her? Would you choose celibacy? Or would you attempt to live as normal a life as possible with someone who shares your feelings?

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    • rossi_thomas
      Posted on March 19, 2012 at 11:52pm

      @B_RAD – You’re lying. You’re engaging in NewSpeak where “marriage” means anything you want it to mean. Why should anyone care if the English language is destroyed? Guilty now means you were not found responsible for committing the offense and are able to walk free of charges. I’m not trying to “redefine” what “guilty” means.

      Seriously, STFU.

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  • HorseCrazy
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:20pm

    I find it strange the use of the word “dignity” when we are talking about sodomy.

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:24pm

      Liberals see dignity in immorality, if they didn‘t they would have a lot of unpleasant reflecting that they’d have to do on their lives.

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    • SoNick
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 8:10pm

      @horsecrazy
      What a nonsensical comment. You are aware that sodomy is a practice many straight couples enjoy? Do you also realize that homosexual couples are sometimes comprised of two women?

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    • satman40
      Posted on March 2, 2012 at 3:19am

      Damn Straight

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  • Jenny Lind
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:15pm

    Any government can pass any law they choose, if they go against God’s law it is on them. It makes me sad for my country when the minority over rules the majority. Reading all the awfull blogs here this evening will change nothing, just makes it very clear there are two sides. I have picked my side, I will stand-and keep God’s laws. Eveyrone else will have to choose their own, so many new people on this blog, so many ugly things said, seems we have a new stream of religion haters.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 10:22pm

      Everyone needs to remember that we are not a theocracy, we are a constitutional republic with freedom and liberty given to us by God. The Law is not designed to prevent people from sinning, it is designed to protect the individual from infringement upon those God-given rights from other individuals and the govt. While I am certainly no religion basher, and I recognize that our govt is based on Judeo-Christian values, you must recognize that the law is not to impose values, religious or otherwise, upon the populace.

      The govt has no business preventing anyone from entering into a legal contract with anyone else, with the exception of age restriction or mental state. While marriage certainly has its religious definition, it is also a secular legal contract that carries with it certain benefits and protections.

      Just as the govt is to protect the rights of individuals to practice their own values, it MUST protect the right of other individuals and the organizations they belong to (IE.the church) to practice their values. We must not permit the inclusion of SSM to allow the progressives to force others to go against their beliefs, as in forcing churches to accept or perform SSM. While the progressive left is certainly trying to use gay marriage as a crow bar to infringe upon the rights of the church, the right is overstepping by trying to prevent two people from forming a legal contract.

      It works both ways, people. Protect rights, don’t impose values.

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  • phillips1990702
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:13pm

    Gay marriage should be the law of the land.

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    • OklahomaBound
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:30pm

      Yeah next on the lefts list would be to make peda.phillia the law of the land too considering they are immoral deviant birds of a feather.

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    • SoNick
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 8:13pm

      why do you automatically equate gays with liberals? You don’t think there are gay conservatives?

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    • B_rad
      Posted on March 3, 2012 at 3:28pm

      I am NOT a Republican, I am a constitutional conservative independent who believes a free and just government has no place telling it’s citizens who can and cannot enter into a legal contract with one another. While I’m 100% for state’s rights, I cannot wrap my head around the argument that the government has some right to tell me that I can’t enter into a legal contract with another consenting adult. I’m a gay man who believes that small, limited, constitutional government is what made this country great, and will make it greater still, should we pull our collective head from our butt and get back to that. A small, limited government that cannot force values upon its citizens. Government is to protect the rights of the individual, not force values upon him.

      So, there you go, a gay conservative who believes in gay unions (marriage, unions, whatever). If your definition of conservative means a large governmental apparatus that tells its people how to live, than you are just as big a progressive as Obama. The only difference is your values may be better for the country, but freedom means you don’t get to impose your values any more than Obama gets to impose his.

      Remember what Jefferson said about imposing values. To paraphrase, if it neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg, it’s none of my damn business.

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  • GUYFROMMAINE
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:01pm

    @ Vox_Populi
    Please refrain from misrepresenting God. He is not a cosmic killjoy, nor blood thirsty. I can’t change the fact that you hate Him, though I can pray that He would open your eyes. You are simply being rebellious and deny the obvious which is all around you.

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  • SurfinRallylizard
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:56pm

    So can polygamists marry too?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:09pm

      Sure, polygamy creates gays. Actually, polygamist patriarchs created beta males >>> gays.

      That’s the way it works in the animal world & the human one.

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    • Nick84
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:11pm

      Honestly, why shouldn’t they be able to marry? If they are all consenting adults of sound mind, why shouldn’t they be able to live the lifestyle they want?

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    • SurfinRallylizard
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 8:42pm

      @Nick, that is sorta where I was going… you either have two choices: 1. Get the gov’t out of it completely and treat everyone for tax and legal purposes as individuals, or 2. Allow consenting adults to be “happy” in whatever relationship they deem appropriate. Good luck writing the tax law to incorporate a 50 person relationship… and I am sure 10 business people would love to get together to exclude $2.5 million in capital gains for selling real estate… all conversations that wouldn‘t be necessary if we got the gov’t out of it.

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  • jnobfan
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:46pm

    Although I do not agree with gay marraige I strongly support states rights. If Maryland wants gay marraige or prayer in school (I don’t like that either) or drinking at 18 or weed or abortion (oh oh)whatever its fine with me.
    Its called diversity and states rights. Don’t like it? Get involved and change it or move just leave the rest of us out of it.

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  • Lumbar Spine
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:38pm

    I have a suggestion for all people whose lives are inspired by the Bible…don’t get married to someone of the same sex. Even if you live in Maryland where they want you to marry someone of your sex, just say “No!” to gay marriage.

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    • DoseofReality
      Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:57pm

      Its amazing these people dont understand that. If you dont agree with gay marriage…..then dont get married to someone of the same sex, simple as that. I wonder if the folks on this site realize that they are extremists

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  • marcus_arealius
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:35pm

    Ouch, I don‘t think it’s dignified to punch a fist or smother small furry animals into exit ports.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:16pm

      Reading a gay site a while back & the gays were endless comment about a supposed closeted gay person’s package. Then in the last several months I learn there are tops & bottoms. I really think gays are psychologically damaged by society at an early age. They are beta males. The buff ones were late bloomers or went into over drive after being put down & went from scrawny 90 lb weaklings to buff. I don’t believe in the genetic or epi-genetic conjecture; it is all in their mind.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 10:38pm

      @Marcus, you don’t think there are straight people just as perverted? Really? Watch Jersey Shore once. Visit any number of straight dating sites, or porn.
      As to the origin of homosexuality in individuals, I really don’t know. But I can tell you that I personally was attracted to members of the same sex at a very early age, long before I even understood what sexual attraction was. I had a completely normal childhood with no trauma, no gay influences, and no sexual abuse of any kind. Think what you wish, but most of us with those feelings have no say in the matter. While actions are always a choice, the feelings are certainly not. Trust me, I fought it for two decades (from adolescence) before I finally accepted that they weren’t going away. I would never have chosen this for myself, ever, but I must do the best I can with the hand I was dealt.

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  • little big man
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:28pm

    Great now it’s legal to pack fudge in Maryland

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  • Arndt08
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:23pm

    This is such a tough issue because what is right in someones eyes is wrong to someone else. From a Christian perspective, we need to love these people and show them how Jesus loves them. It does say in the bible that marriage is between a man and women. God created marriage in his image and the fact that people are making it into something that is between the same sex is just not right. Men and women are created differently but in marriage are meant to be one, having same sex marriage just doesn’t work. As soon as a country starts making decisions such as this , the society will more than likely take a down turn for the worst. It is just something that really needs to be prayed about.

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  • Mrs. Bowers
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:20pm

    God is not mocked. When He’s had enough trust me…. we will know! God have mercy on us.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:27pm

      I voted for a state constitutional amendment keeping marriage for one man and one woman. You are right about God not being mocked. I will say this in defense of Maryland, though: at least they didn’t mock the republican form of government. Unlike state supreme courts in Mass., California, and Iowa — in Maryland they passed a law. They kept to the rule of law as opposed to the rule of men.

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  • vox_populi
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:19pm

    Another victory for equality under the law. Seven down, forty-three to go.

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    • islamhater
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:34pm

      Ya equality forget morals and values. It‘s not like be’ing gay goes against nature itself. It’s a perveted way of life where do you think child molesters come from. DNA has nothing to do with it. It is a choice. Don’t believe that jean crapp thats an excuse. Gay people are very very sick people and should be shunned back into the closet. Yep all you people go ahead attack me but thats the truth…

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:40pm

      ISLAMHATER…I pity you.

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    • islamhater
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:57pm

      @lumbar: don‘t pitty me i don’t need it nor do i want it you believe what you want and i’ll believe the truth. Gay is inmoral and a perversion plain and simple. No don’t pitty me pitty those children all those GAY people have molested…

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 11:15pm

      islamhater
      Most of the child molesting going on is by ‘men of the cloth’.

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    • DoseofReality
      Posted on March 2, 2012 at 2:56pm

      Islamhater…..seriously man, what rock do you live under? In all seriousness, where are you from? Do you have ANY exposure to people who are different from you? You have created all thee boogeymen who seem to be ruinging your life and making you very fearful. You obvioulsy have some sort of self hatred….there is no other reason for such abhorrent and ridiculous language and thoughts. Somethings not right in your mond, and you probably need some help.

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  • NewLife56
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:11pm

    Does anyone have any doubts? it’s close everyone, very close, He isn’t going to sit around much longer. he is slow to anger, but sure in his judgement.

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    • turkey13
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:19pm

      I have traced my family back to 1782 in Maryland and my dad born in1919 was the last and moved to Texas and met my mom and lived there. I guess he saw his homeland going down the tubes back then. Maryland is now on my No Fly List. this will be the 3rd year that myself and wife haven’t gone up there in the fall. If everyone stopped spending money up there the folks would make drastic changes.If I see any of those on my list on Amazon or E-bay I buy elsewhere.

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    • vox_populi
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:28pm

      “If God really did exist, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
      -Mikhail Bakunin

      The God of Abraham is a bloodthirsty tyrant who has made no visible actions on this planet in centuries. His insolent cult will continue to dwindle as the years go by and humanity looks beyond such arbitrary and meaningless edicts as his.

      No shell-fish indeed.

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:35pm

      TURKEY…I have refused to set foot in the state of Texas for years.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:19pm

      @Spiney
      Nver saw much use for Merry Land anyhooo!

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  • hesfinallydead
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:11pm

    You can call it what you want but marriage for for everyone who wants it. Let the church of your choice continue to hate. But pretending that banning marriage for one group is still unconstitutional. Besides, this is a great day: AB is dead.

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  • One Man Progressive Wrecking Crew
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:03pm

    Oh Boy, another indoctro‘ ’mo factory. Just what America needs. @eyesroll@ Any bets less than a couple hundred if that even show up? Happens every time, but strangely the Media ignores it!!

    Imagine that.. keeping something so pertinent to everyday God fearing Americans’ lives such as this, as changing a 5000 year world or even universe-wide institution for a couple thousand of these ‘unions’ nationwide. That’s it!!

    Yea that makes sense, in Seinfeld’s freaking Bizzarro world.

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:49pm

      How are you harmed by gay marriage. Want to know what makes a mockery of the institution of marriage? Divorce…heterosexual kind.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:26pm

      @ Spiney
      Harmed by Gay marriage. Not me, of course, seein; people ******; on the street doesn’t bother me much either, crappin on a cop car, just plain stupid, But DAMN, let some heartless heathen walk down that sanme street smokin tobacco- OH damn we got problems legal style. ‘Cuz that person made a choice, and it offends yer fagluvin’ libido!

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  • Alecto
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:01pm

    This is open war now between nazi gay fanatics and religious people. Only one of these groups can survive. Right now gays are winning at destroying the culture. Two gays cannot have a family, and they aren’t anywhere close to being “normal”. Normal is one man + one woman. Anything else is perverted and sick.

    People think these social issues shouldn’t be of any concern? Well, 10 or 20 years from now, when these disturbed people have destroyed the entire social and cultural fabric of the country I wonder if the morons who think this is a “civil rights” issue will still believe that.

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    • Never Offended
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:20pm

      OOHHHH, I’m so scared of the gays. Our noble culture is going to be ruined! Oh no!

      You people are stupid. Yeah, it’s the gays that are gonna ruin our country. We really need to focus on these gays…

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:50pm

      Yep…focus on the gays while the 1% keep raking in the money.

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    • Mateytwo Barreett
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:31pm

      @Spiney
      What is the connection .. Yew hate rich folk, or just hetros!?

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 11:20pm

      You think ‘gay’ was just invented? Gays have existed since the dawn of modern man dude.

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  • Mr. Oshawott
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:49pm

    I know all too well that I’m going to receive a massive amount of ad-hominem attacks for saying this, but Martin O’Malley was absolutely right in signing that bill legalizing gay marriage. It really is about time that the government stopped showing unnecessary interest in a person’s private life and started treating everyone, be it heterosexual or homosexual, equally. The government has NO authorization to establish a definition of marriage of any sort under the Constitution.

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    • GUYFROMMAINE
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:54pm

      Sooooo, the government should allow people to marrry animals too? Or how about pedophiles marrying their victims? Should the government stand in the way of those who want to marry multiple partners?

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    • bhelmet
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:59pm

      Wrong – the Federal government does not have the Constitutional power, but the states do. It is cowardly to do it without the voters, but then they could be like California and overturn the citizens’ will – which by the way is Unconstitutional – Federally and State.

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    • chameleonx
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:00pm

      @GUYFROMMAINE: What does this have to do with Zoophilia or pedophilia? This is about adults who want the freedom of marriage. Yes, I support same-sex marriage and polygamy. Why make it illegal? Everyone needs to be loved.

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    • GUYFROMMAINE
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:57pm

      @Chameleonx
      Why can I not bring up those things? Not too many years ago this country considered homosexuality wrong or a mental diease. Now, we are told to accept it, whether we want to or not. So why don’t we accept other forms of “sexual expression”, especially if “everyone needs to be loved?”

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    • B_rad
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 10:58pm

      Bravo, Mr. Oshawott.

      Guy, two consenting adults engaging in consensual acts that come naturally to them are doing no harm to others. Neither a child nor an animal can consent to sexual acts. To equate the two is to equate consensual sex with rape. See homosexuality as a perversion or sickness all you like, but you can’t outlaw two consenting adults from behaving as they wish with one another. Since you cannot possibly prevent the behavior, preventing SS couples from enjoying the same rights as OS couples provides you nor society any benefit whatsoever.

      BHelmet, while I am fully in support of the rights of states to determine acceptable standards for their communities, I still believe no free government has the right to limit which adults can enter into a legal contract together.

      As to the polygamy argument that is often brought up to show the permission of SSM as a slippery slope, it makes perfect sense to limit the number of people who can be considered married. If not, could not an entire town decide to “marry” one another? So there must be a limit, logically it must be two.

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  • Razorhunters
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:40pm

    Transgender hormone treatments, abortion access, dental work – for detained illegals
    http://www.infowars.com/transgender-hormone-treatments-abortion-access-dental-work-for-illegals-detained/

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  • hi
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:40pm

    It’s not about two gay gays getting married.

    It’s about their forcing their will on us. For example, now they will try to close the Church down for discriminating against them for not marrying them ……It’s kind of like what they did with forcing the Catholic hospital to supply abortion pills to its employees. Now they will force churches to marry them or withdraw tax exemption status.

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    • B_rad
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 11:04pm

      You have a point, HI. The progressives will use this as a bludgeon to try to force their will upon us. The problem is, you can’t limit the rights of individuals any more than they can. The law is supposed to protect the individual’s rights. That includes permitting any two consenting adults to enter into any legal contract they wish, and preventing progressive groups from forcing their views upon the church or any other organization. It works both ways. Protect rights, don’t impose values.

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  • Cherynn
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:38pm

    Yep, we get to force our religous beliefs onto everyone,,,,,,just like the taliban does. Yippie!!!! Dont ya just love freedom

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:25pm

      Apparently you don’t like freedom since you want to shove your version of equality down the throats of people and force others to give same sex couples benefits.

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    • Lumbar Spine
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:53pm

      GIT-R-DONE…how does giving gay people the same rights as you affect your marriage? It doesn’t…

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    • Cherynn
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:44pm

      Claiming someone elses marriage is against your religeon is like being angry at someone for eating a doughnut because your on a diet.

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    • SimpleTruths
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 11:26pm

      Comparing legal rights and religious beliefs is like comparing apples and potatoes.

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  • Itsjusttim
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:34pm

    Like I said big government is good and giant government is better.

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  • chameleonx
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:33pm

    I’m glad Gov. O’Malley signed the bill into law. As a supporter of free love I believe anyone should be able to marry and have a family.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:47pm

      A family of what?

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    • chameleonx
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:53pm

      Everyone should be able to have a family. Not only heterosexual couples. But people who are same-sex or polygamist.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:24pm

      Let me know when two people of the same sex can biologically create a child, LOL.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:31pm

      @ Chameleonx
      Your post shows that you don’t even know what “free love” is. Under “free love”, there is NO MARRIAGE because marriage limits the parties to the marriage from having intimate relations outside of the marriage. Marx called that limitation a form of “property” — thus a pure Marxist would abolish marriage.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 7:06pm

      Polygamist, gays, DINKs & people with huge families are all the same.

      It is about me, me, me, … an Adonis complex

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  • Razorhunters
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:32pm

    sheriff joe …bc a forgery, barry ss# a fraud.

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  • Alecto
    Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:32pm

    O’Malley is like Sibelius, Pelosi, Biden, Cuomo and Kerry – Phoney Baloney CATHOLICS! Forget about excommunication – I want to burn them at the stake!

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:44pm

      You’re nuts.

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    • TSUNAMI-22
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:52pm

      @ ModerationIsBest

      You’re nuts.
      ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      Personally, I’d rather be considered a nut than a “moderate”.

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    • Alecto
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 5:54pm

      Ah, Moderationisbest, you should go to the dictionary and look up the word: “hyperbole”.

      Next.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:06pm

      @TSUNAMI-22

      You’d rather be a nut then be moderate? Hahaha, shows how idiotic you are.

      @Alecto
      Yes, I‘m sure that’s what you meant.

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    • Git-R-Done
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:26pm

      Moderates are just spineless wimps pretending to have a moral compass and pretending to be noble. There’s nothing noble about sitting on the fence. Determine which side you’re on and stay there.

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    • ModerationIsBest
      Posted on March 1, 2012 at 6:59pm

      @GIT-R-DONE

      No, that kind of thinking leads to the political gridlock we have now.

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