Minnesota: Gay marriage amendment loses

[mzmolly]

Source: Pioneer Press/TwinCities.com



With a majority of the state's precincts reporting early Wednesday, Nov. 7, a proposed constitutional amendment to write man-woman marriage into the constitution has apparently lost.

The defeat is historic, making Minnesota the first state to turn back an attempt to write man-woman marriage into a state constitution.

Read more: http://www.twincities.com/elections/ci_21945639/gay-marriage-amendment-too-close-call

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. This is a GOOD thing! The proposed amendment to the state constitution

said that marriage had to be between a man and a woman - in other words, it would have incorporated anti-gay bigotry in the constitution. Fortunately, it was voted down!

[Hissyspit]

2. We passed it in North Carolina.

North Carolina is going back to its fucked-in-the-head Jesse Helms regressive ways.

I really need to get the hell out of here.

[Wraith20878]

4. Amen

from another pissed off North Carolinian

[mzmolly]

8. I'm sorry to hear that.

Move north, my friend.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

20. "Move north, my friend."

If the move is only across the border to Virginia, it will be a waste of time. We have the same amendment here, thanks to Bob Marshall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall-Newman_Amendment

[friedgreentomatoes]

24. Keep driving and go to MD

Things are looking nice there...

[AlbertCat]

30. Move north, my friend

No.

The climate is perfect here. It's too cold in VA and too hot in SC.

[mzmolly]

35. So you don't like the Canadian

border?

[alarimer]

16. I just moved here from Texas

So it could be worse, trust me.

I am disappointed at the governor's race. I'm a state employee and Republicans are ALWAYS bad for us.

[yardwork]

25. It's hella-depressing in NC today, I agree.

[AlbertCat]

29. We passed it in North Carolina.

I'm not so sure it woulda passed if they hadn't "hidden" it in the primary election.... a primary that had no need for liberals to vote since Obama was already the candidate. It didn't win by a land slide. Had it been a regular election, seriously, it might have lost.

But of course NC just barely went red again. I don't get it. The current conservative legislation here sucks! The state has already taken 2 steps backwards. Every time NC has a real chance of breaking out of that Southern slump of red, the conservatives here freak and squash it somehow. NC is not the deep south, though for some unfathomable reason, the good-ol' boys want it to become Alabama!

[mzmolly]

3. Yes indeed.

Now, for the voter ID BS to fail.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. That failed, too.

[mzmolly]

7. Saw that, a bit late. ;)

What an amazing night!

[calimary]

9. Yeah, no kidding! What a GREAT night!

All kinds of nice! We've suffered enough. This time we got the breaks. But we have to be vigilant. Too many of the opposition will take the wrong lessons from this defeat. CONSTANT VIGILANCE!!!! And DO NOT let them gain a foothold with the Latino vote!!!!

[alarimer]

17. I'm proud of my original home state

Michelle Bachmann aside.

[azurnoir]

5. Yes it was closer than I would have liked but still it did not pass and that's all that matters n/t

[Divine Discontent]

13. yup! just like in WA, as long as a victory is a victory, then I'm happy!

[David__77]

10. Now to legalize it.

Maybe not in two years, but soon enough.

[ButterflyBlood]

34. Might be sooner than that

We have the legislature back and a marriage equality-supporting Governor.

[David__77]

36. Both houses?

Wow..

[blur256]

11. Thank God

People are finally realizing it doesn't matter.

[freedomboogie]

12. Yay!

Ron and Rand Paul must be soooooooo S A D it this moment.

Bigotry has no place in the United States of America.

[Anthony McCarthy]

14. We reached the tipping point, though

Maine and Maryland broke the winning streak for anti-equality. The president who opposes DOMA was reelected and the Senate that will confirm any new justices stayed with Democrats.

[idwiyo]

15. K&R

[Delphinus]

18. Wonderful news!

Love is love ... may we all wake up and recognize this truth.

[Odin2005]

19. And we have WON CONTROL OF THE LEGISLATURE!!!

[yardwork]

28. Congratulations!

[Andy Stanton]

21. It will take time

But eventually same sex marriage will be legal in all states. And people will wonder what all the fuss was about.

[yardwork]

27. It will take a federal remedy. 40 states have the bigotry written into their state constitutions.

It's the usual divide that you would expect. The red states.

[Bosso 63]

22. It was a good day in Minnesota!

[AllyCat]

23. Wisconsin has gone more backwards last night...Minnesota is

looking like a nice place to live

[yardwork]

26. Thank you, Minnesota!

You guys rock!

[demo dutch]

31. Great but ...why did they re-elect Bachman?

[ButterflyBlood]

32. Sadly that's only 1/8 of the state

But as a whole, we voted the right way.

[ButterflyBlood]

33. YEAH! And now we got a DFL legislature in place to actually pass marriage equality!

The Republicans legislature that gave us nothing but this piece of hate and their also defeated voter suppression amendment is out, and now we have a DFL legislature that can send a bill to pass it to the Governor's desk!