New Hampshire’s gays have been able to get married for one year, one month, and ten days — and the majority of residents would like to keep it that way. Some 62 percent of respondents to a WMUR Granite State Poll say they support keeping same-sex marriage legal (51 percent “strongly” opposed repeal). Meanwhile 24 percent, constituting roughly 312,000 people, “strongly” supported doing away with the law — something even the state’s Republican lawmakers have given up on. And does nobody care about the five percent of people who reported they were be “very upset” if the law remains?
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5% Of New Hampshire Would Cry In Their Pillow If Gay Marriage Isn’t Repealed
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kernelt
some good news from all those other dark news regarding the same topic
Resist
Notice how the least “ethnically-diverse” states in the U.S. are the coolest about same-sex rights? I think Utah might be the only exception.
greenmanTN
@Resist: In Europe, the most liberal countries tend to be the least diverse. Sweden and the Scandinavian countries, etc…. The political right tends to exploit the differences between groups to achieve their aims and that’s harder to do with a homogeneous population. In the US it’s entirely too easy to get groups pointing fingers at each other, unable to really work together, and the right (the least diverse group) takes what they want.
kayla
@Resist: Oh you mean like Montana, North and South Dakota, Maine (REJECTED! can’t blame the 0.8% black population for that one!), Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska etc….Oh yes, If only America’s population was as white as the driven snow, gay marriage would shine from sea to shining sea……or maybe not….and um…Utah isn’t some strange exception…..
Using your logic, Eastern Europe should be the gay friendliest place on Earth, since they hardly ever get North African immigrants and they themselves are migrating West in search of opportunity….all that whiteness hasn’t brought gay acceptance…how strange, how sad! Trying to bend reality to fit your racist notions is just kinda pathetic……
If Maryland, with a third of it’s population being black passes a marriage equality bill (which will include the support of many black law makers) will you slit your throat in disbelief or something….?
Resist
Kayla : Not one of those states you mention is as Caucasian as Vermont and New Hampshire. I don’t really care, I just pointed it out because it’s interesting. I know it doesn’t go along with the agenda of some, but….gotta live with it. Eastern Europe is poor on gay rights compared to the rest of Europe, but decades better than any country in Africa. “Diversity” is not necessarily a great thing, so that dogma has got to cease.
thematics
@Resist:
What’s your point? Please be clear on whether your theory/hypothesis on New Hampshire is based on age, race, ethnicity, religion, financial status, family size, genetics, politcal party or other factors.
The favour of a reply would be most appreciated.
kayla
TOP 10 WHITEST U.S. STATES AND GAY MARRIAGE STATISTICS….
1 Vermont 96.6 % — gay marriage
2 Maine 96.3 % — rejected gay marriage in referendum!
3 New Hampshire 95.7% — gay marriage, threats of a referendum by gop…. LET THOSE ENLIGHTENED WHITE PEOPLE VOTE SINCE EVERYONE KNOWS THEY ARE GENETICALLY PREDISPOSED TO LOVE THE GAYS!!
4 West Virginia 95% — DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
5 South Dakota 94% — WHAT WEST VIRGINIA SAID!!
6 Iowa — 93.8% — We got rid of some of those damn activist judges who gave those awful gays their marriage rights. If it weren’t for those damn democrats preventing us from voting on it, we’d already have repealed this atrocity!!! LET WHITE PEOPLE VOTE, THEY ARE THE ENLIGHTENED ONES!
7 Wyoming 92.5% — WHAT WEST VIRGINIA AND SOUTH DAKOTA SAID!!
8 Idaho 92.3% — WE LOVE JOSEPH SMITH, THE PROPHET AND HE HATES THE GAYS,SO THERE!
9 North Dakota 91.7% — ARE YOU CRAZY!
10 Utah 90.8% — WHAT IDAHO SAID TIMES 100!!
kayla
As a biracial woman, I’m not denying that black homophobia is a problem…What I am denying is that white people are any less predisposed to homophobia than any other race…..including blacks…
tallskin2
Kayla- I don’t think anyone is arguing that the colour of the skin is the problem.
What people are arguing is that culture is the problem. And the culture that people of a black skin choose is, it seems, more likely to be hysterically homophobic.
Certainly the evidence from the US, Jamaica, Africa would tend to support this. Witness the off-the-scale-homophobia in Uganda. (with the possibly exception of South Africa, but then SA has had a large white liberal culture to dilute the cultural homophobia).
kayla
@tallskin2: Well wouldn’t these almost pure white states have an even whiter culture to “dilute” all that minority homophobia….? Wouldn’t their almost pure white culture mean they would be even more homofriendly……? Certainly their culture isn’t tainted by THE BLACK….
kayla
@tallskin2: Well wouldn’t these almost pure white states have an even whiter culture to “dilute” all that minority homophobia….? Wouldn’t their almost pure white culture mean they would be even more homofriendly……? Certainly their culture isn’t tainted by THE BLACK…. and why do so many gays flee these white states to go to more diverse places…that aren’t as safely “diluted”, as the places they were born….?