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WillParkinson

(16,862 posts)
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 05:36 PM Mar 2012

Marriage SURVIVES In New Hampshire! Two HUGE defeats for NOM on the same day!

Marriage SURVIVES In New Hampshire!

Two HUGE defeats for NOM on the same day!

Freedom To Marry exults via press release:

Today, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted down legislation that would have repealed the state’s two-year-old freedom to marry law along with a key vote to defeat the Bates Amendment, which would have forced a non-binding referendum on marriage onto the November ballot and replaced marriage with civil unions. The final bill was defeated by a vote of 211 to 116 and the Bates Amendment by a vote of 162 to 188. Stripping away the freedom to marry in New Hampshire was a top priority of national anti-gay organizations, which had predicted that they would be able to garner the vote of two-thirds of both the House of Representatives and the Senate to override the promised veto by Governor John Lynch.

http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2012/03/marriage-survives-in-new-hampshire.html

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Marriage SURVIVES In New Hampshire! Two HUGE defeats for NOM on the same day! (Original Post) WillParkinson Mar 2012 OP
this was such a great result- Bluerthanblue Mar 2012 #1
the rat bastards will just keep coming back though... mike_c Mar 2012 #2
we make ground, man d_r Mar 2012 #4
Anti-SSM has reached it's high water mark MNBrewer Mar 2012 #3
I Love It..... queerart Mar 2012 #5
Outstanding! racaulk Mar 2012 #6

mike_c

(36,281 posts)
2. the rat bastards will just keep coming back though...
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 06:07 PM
Mar 2012

...until broader social changes make them so marginalized that they give up. Something I've learned in recent years-- liberal victories are rarely permanent. We have to keep fighting those battles over and over again, because the other side just keeps reviving the horse until it's so threadbare they finally capitulate. I don't think that will happen in my lifetime, unfortunately.

d_r

(6,907 posts)
4. we make ground, man
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 07:49 PM
Mar 2012

we have to keep fighting, you are right. But we make ground.

It was probably 40 years ago when the Lizard King said that they had the guns but we had the numbers. We still haven't won, and it is painfully slow, but we make progress.

MNBrewer

(8,462 posts)
3. Anti-SSM has reached it's high water mark
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 06:48 PM
Mar 2012

It will probably achieve a few more victories as their prior victories slowly are stripped from them, but it will be a net decrease. NC and MN will hopefully follow NH's example here.

queerart

(1,784 posts)
5. I Love It.....
Wed Mar 21, 2012, 11:04 PM
Mar 2012


How was that shit sandwich NOMers?


For the NOMies reading this post.... you not only had a shit sandwich for lunch... but they served you another one for dinner as well.....


You loose ground everyday.... sometimes an inch, sometimes a mile..... but you are still a "looser" everyday.....








racaulk

(11,550 posts)
6. Outstanding!
Thu Mar 22, 2012, 09:10 AM
Mar 2012

Yesterday was a good day not only for gay and lesbian families in New Hampshire, but for the marriage equality movement on the whole.

And not only could the anti-gay forces not gather the veto proof majorities as they were publicly claiming to expect, they couldn't even gather a simple majority. Absolutely delicious!

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