Just in case you thought otherwise

Bigotry is alive and well in Texas. By about a 75% margin, Texans voted to ban gay marriage by adopting a state constitutional amendment. The only county voting down the amendment was Travis.

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A little progressive haven in an otherwise neo-con state.

What a hateful thing to vote to pass. Texans should be ashamed of themselves for voting to support hate laws. (not the Texans here, btw).

and continue to lose smart people to more liberal states.

I don't think I've ever met an intelligent over the top biggot.

Eventually the republican states will just have to start asking the liberal states what to do :P

Is moving to Canada an option? :hug:

:banghead:

:grr:

Man, surrounded by a cesspool of bigotry. Who could you trust?

When Missouri did it, I was floored. That morning I told my husband I wanted to move. At work another guy said his wife woke up saying the same exact thing.

Voting for a law on something that, by their own definition cannot affect themselves. I don't know what you call that form of discrimination past just blatant sexual discrimination. It winds up being taxation without representation of a minority that isn't recognized as a viable and real group. And it's so damned petty. I just couldn't believe so many people had actually voted that way, not just talking to go along with a majority opinion, but actually voted that way.

That morning I started having a feeling I haven't stopped having since. I'm really sorry yours did it too. :(

I would like to move as well and would do so in a heartbeat if circumstances didn't prevent it.

I was at the polls last night. The turnout in my very red county was phenomenal, and the intersection around the polling place was overrun with red voters. I overhead a woman in line talking about how "there was too much at stake not to vote." I agreed that we really needed to focus on this important issue and rolled my eyes.