We don’t make it a regular habit to share the goings-on behind the scenes of Queerty, but here we are on Dec. 30, on New Year’s Eve Eve, and none of us can stop talking (ok, IM-ing) about what the first day of 2010 really means: Marriage equality in New Hampshire. As we and our readers and pundits across the land debate whether the M-word should be the top priority of gay activists, we just wanted to pause and salute the New Hampshire legislators, and Gov. John Lynch, who placed a common sense vote against discrimination. And we want to offer an early congratulations to all of New Hampshire’s soon-to-be newlyweds who will take advantage of Jan. 1, and the days and months that follow, to celebrate their love. May New Hampshire’s own New Year’s resolution, then, be to immediately shoot down the brewing effort to repeal the law, and keep the Granite State among the very few United States to proclaim, boldly but quietly, that gay families are American families. God bless.
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An Early, Heartfelt Congratulations to New Hampshire On Winning the Battle for Marriage Equality
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terrwill
Not sure ’bout the processes required to negate this
legislation. However Maggot and her minions are beginning
to attempt to simply rile up the masses. In Iowa they are
buying ads demanding the Gay marriage be decided by a voter
referendum. However the Iowa constitution does not allow
said referendums. The only way for their tactics to win
would be a change in the constitution, which is a long
drawn out complicated process. Instead they are going to
put pressure on the legislators to take a stand and then
use that to rally the frightwing lunatics to vote against
the legislators who are not supporting a referendum which
simply cannot exist.
Unfortunately they are finding ways to further their cause
in states where they have little chance of actually repealling
the Gay marriage legislation. Instead using these states
as a “waring” to those legislators who support the measure
in other states. A movement needs to be created to show
that in the states where the Gays have married the end result
has been a whole lot of nothing. There have been no
spontanious combustions of the venues where the marriages
have occured, nor have little boys dragged their friends
out of the sandboxes and demanded they have a pretend Gay
marriage in the schoolyard. Show exactaly what this is,
a campaign of hate…………….
SmartVac
“immediately shoot down the brewing effort to repeal the law, and keep the Granite State among the very few United States to proclaim, boldly but quietly, that gay families are American families.”
Yes, congrats to New Hampshire and may they successfully defend against the forces of H8!
NYU
God bless? What a bizarre last sentence. Are you aware that a great portion of your readers do not believe in a spiritual presence, or one defined by a singular masculine pronoun? How absolutely unfitting and unprofessional to end a post about a gay rights victory with “God bless”…
Dan
Are you aware that hypersensitive whinging is totally annoying to those of us who are non religious but open minded enough to not care when a blogger references his or her own religious beliefs in a positive and non threatening way?
Also, the 90s are over, unconstructive pronoun based offense is generally not seen as professional anywhere outside of a college campus.
God Bless, Allahu Akbar, and may the Spaghetti Monster be with you.