MA Anti-Gay Amendment Backers Collect Double Number Of Signatures Needed

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon05/11/112205massAmend.htm

A group trying to get a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions in Massachusetts said Tuesday it had collected twice the number of signatures needed to get the issue on the 2008 ballot.

Vote On Marriage said it would submit over 120-thousand signatures to city and town clerks before tomorrow's 5:00 pm deadline.

A petition needs the support of almost 66-thousand registered voters. The signatures then must be validated by local clerks. The issue must then go to a joint session of legislature were it needs to be approved by at least one-quarter - or 50 - of 200 lawmakers in two separate sessions of the Legislature.
The question would then head to the 2008 ballot, where it must garner the support of a majority of voters

that they've been received fraudulently.

see thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=158x7104

none of them were compensated in any way for their signatures, right?

Anti-SSM Petition Pending Today

Skulduggery aside, the forces trying to stop same-sex marriage in Massachusetts will present their petitions to the town and city clerks by 5 p.m. today for verification. Given the season, it is worth nothing that we would be much more thankful if we didn't have to endure two more years of their Fright and Spite Circus.

We have every anticipation still that they can meet the low bars —— first of under 66,000 signatures and second of a quarter of the legislators in two consecutive annual session votes. However, we wonder now about the second. More legislators see the downside to being on the losing side of this issue, particular in light of the last vote on the subject. Then, there's the unAmerican and undemocratic thingummy of trying to strip existing rights from fellow citizens to suit a minority's religious beliefs...

Meanwhile, Voldemort's People, sorry, make that VoteOnMarriage.org/Massachusetts Family Institute promise to provide plenteous petitions, double the required. With many eyes of the signature-gathering fraud, thousands of sigs will surely fail the challenge, but not half of them.

This will certainly lead to huge wastes of private and public time and money.

More:
http://massmarrier.blogspot.com/2005/11/anti-ssm-petition-pending-today.html

I just don't get.

Why should it bother anyone that two gay folks wish to provide for one another. Why should they be denied the right to the benefits of marriage?


Granted, the heavy-duty religious thing is beyond me too, but that part of it seems like a form of mass hysteria.....

And the Bible says it's wrong!


(Apparently divorce, which the Bible explicitly forbids, does nothing to damage Traditional Marriage :sarcasm:)

is that these Nazis have absolutely no problem at all forcibly dissolving the marriages of thousands of gay couples. And if they have no problem doing that, they'll have no problem forcibly doing it to others, too. If this country is too stupid to figure something out from the screeching demands to dissolve the Schiavo marriage, then it will be the wingnuts who have completely destroyed the "sanctity" of marraige and have done nothing but create an institution of privilege reserved for those they approve of in society.

There is hardly anything moral about that position.