News: "N.H. House Approves Gay Marriage" Responses from NH residents ONLY (Manchester: 2009, live)

[GraniteStater]

Concord Monitor - N.H. House approves gay marriage

[waccamatt]

Go New Hampshire!

[Jimrob1]

Didn't Vermont just pass it this week also. Or is it in the process?

[booker_one]

did you guys get to vote on this nonsense?

[lisa g]

I don't get the whole 'reconsideration' thing. This was defeated by one vote initially...
Also, what gives with representatives personal stories entering into the reconsideration? They are not there to represent themselves:

from the WMUR site:
One of those speeches was delivered by Rep. David Pierce, D-Etna, an openly gay man with a partner of 20 years and two adopted daughters.

"When my children grow up to be old enough to understand what discrimination means, they shouldn't have to learn they were objects of it," Pierce said.

For crying out loud, if he did not want his children to grow up to learn they were objects of discrimination, he should not have been so selfish as to subject them to that lifestyle. I have little respect for a parent who is the cause of his children's potential future stigma and yet chooses to blame others for it. Not very personally responsible at all.

[thedudewiththeplan]

One more step in the right direction!

[Brave Stranger]

So as far as we know governor Lynch is against same sex marriage. As usual he has yet to say if he will veto the bill, or let it sit on his desk and become law. He's so weak. If the governor is going to veto the bill let the NH Senate know so that they don't waste more of our time. Wish the guy would grow a backbone.

[bignhfamily]

Well, maybe we should dwell on something more positive, like this!!!

NH House Passes Medicinal Marijuana Bill

NH House Passes Medicinal Marijuana Bill - Politics News Story - WMUR Manchester

[nicolem]

Originally Posted by lisa g

I don't get the whole 'reconsideration' thing. This was defeated by one vote initially...
Also, what gives with representatives personal stories entering into the reconsideration? They are not there to represent themselves:
from the WMUR site:
One of those speeches was delivered by Rep. David Pierce, D-Etna, an openly gay man with a partner of 20 years and two adopted daughters.

"When my children grow up to be old enough to understand what discrimination means, they shouldn't have to learn they were objects of it," Pierce said.

For crying out loud, if he did not want his children to grow up to learn they were objects of discrimination, he should not have been so selfish as to subject them to that lifestyle. I have little respect for a parent who is the cause of his children's potential future stigma and yet chooses to blame others for it. Not very personally responsible at all.

I agree-politics as a whole has become way too emotional. I am referring to all issues not just this one. Instead of thoughtful and logical research, debate and voting, they play on emotion. Politicians should think with their head and as to what is good for their constituents and the constitution not what is good for them personally. They should not be bringing in their own personal agenda and then cry intolerance and discrimination if you are against them. Or they drag around a poor kid or some other "disadvantaged" person to get support for their bills. I guess it is easier to get the masses behind bills with charges of kids starving, discrimination, full blown emotional outbursts than with actual logical debate with facts, etc.

I am not sure what Lynch is going to do but he does not have a backbone. Tell us right now if you would sign it or not, Governor. He should grow a pair and stand by what he thinks is right. I have zero respect for this man but I would have a tiny bit of respect for him if he did that on these issues, even if I did not agree with his choice. Instead, he is hoping this fails in the senate, so he does not have to be on record either way, like with the proposed seatbelt law.

The reconsideration thing was the dems bullying those who did not vote the first time-to make sure they voted for it the second time. Unfortunately, this is nothing new to politics, state or federal, and it happens on both sides of the aisle, usually by the extreme of both parties.

[nicolem]

Originally Posted by Jimrob1

Didn't Vermont just pass it this week also. Or is it in the process?

Just as in NH, the bill is still making it's way in Vermont. It passed the VT house and senate and next step in VT is the governor's desk and he has, at least last I read, vowed to veto it.