While we’re on the subject of gay marriage and the presidential election, Florida’s proposed ban on same-sex nuptials could be essential this November:
[Florida] has a large evangelical community and where the presidential contest is shaping up to be tight.
According to the latest Quinnipiac University Swing State poll released on Wednesday, Obama’s lead over McCain in Florida is 47 percent to 43 percent — hardly a wide margin.
“Florida is close enough … that energized social conservatives could affect the outcome there,” said [Poli Sci professor Cal] Jillson.
Social conservatives are gearing up in Florida, where the amendment needs 60 percent support by voters to pass.
The issue could also heat up elsewhere if a couple from Kansas or some other heartland state gets married in California and then demands that local authorities recognize their union.
“This will have a strong galvanizing effect for the Republican base and that is the kind of thing that the McCain campaign needs,” said Michael Lindsay, a political sociologist at Rice University in Houston.
Gives you chills, doesn’t it?
Jesus christ
The vengeful “Christian” evangelicals are bullyish pigs. In Florida they are a bunch of mindless, bullyish pigs awaiting political instruction from their church leaders. Their obsessive, anti-gay instruction is their religion, and they use “god” as their shield. So. I would encourage every progressive person to rise up against these ignorant, mindless, bullyish pigs, and live your lives loud and proud! Send them to their Sunday, satanic worship with their pig tail tucked between their folds of flesh, and bad haircuts. But most importantly, rise up for same sex marriage. Don’t deny it!
Alan down in Florida
As a Floridian two things –
That poll was taken before yesterday’s announcement of McCain’s flip-flop on the issue of drilling for oil off the coast of Florida (promptly endorsed by the brown-nosing gayvernor) which almost all Floridians are united in their unwillingness to have happen.
Secondly, the most recent poll only shows 58% approval for the Amendment – which is shy of the 60% required to pass.
rick
florida just reinfranchised all the disinfranchised voters that katherine harris kept off the voting rolls. can you say ex cons for obama?
i remember when jeb was kicking george in the nuts to keep drilling out of florida not that long ago.
nothing says tourist dollar like an oil slicked beach!
rick
whats the deal with the picture of the tower that looks like a baby bottle? you seem to use it a lot.
Charles J. Mueller
Baby bottle? Looks more like a phallic symbol to me. 😉
djdavi
lol @ rick
Its The Watch Tower magazine.
The one that those Jehovah’s Witnesses always knock on your door with.