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Many people who were against same-sex marriage for a long time have changed their minds. Its why support for it has jumped from the high 30's eight years ago to into the 50's now. Treating people as equals makes you hate your state, how sad.
Don't be nieve. You don't change your mind about something you've been fighting for months 2 days before the vote without some "incentive".
I'm all about treating them as equals, I do treat them as equals. I think they should be given the same rights as any other two people, but I don't think they should be able tobe married. Marriage is religious, and it should stay that way. In most religions it is considered a sacrament between a man and a woman and that is just the way it is. I'm sorry if you feel that I am hateful, but you are so very wrong.
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Exactly. O'Malley himself was not supportive of this just last year. Then his suspected rival in NY rammed this through and became a liberal darling. All of a sudden this became a must pass in Maryland.
No big deal though the residents of Maryland will have their voices heard in Maryland. Maryland is 30% Black, 9% Hispanic and 6% Asian. Not to mention outside of Montgomery County most of the white population is moderate to conservative this abomination will never see the light of day.
Don't be nieve. You don't change your mind about something you've been fighting for months 2 days before the vote without some "incentive".
I'm all about treating them as equals, I do treat them as equals. I think they should be given the same rights as any other two people, but I don't think they should be able tobe married. Marriage is religious, and it should stay that way. In most religions it is considered a sacrament between a man and a woman and that is just the way it is. I'm sorry if you feel that I am hateful, but you are so very wrong.
I hope not.
Simple. Ban all marriage in the country if you feel that way.
Oh yes because God forbid people have to cope with not getting their way, that might just screw the up emotionally. What a bunch of socialist crap.
Oh, yes, god forbid that bigots like you will just have to cope with not getting your way - because marriage equality IS coming to this country, one state at a time, despite the hatred and narrow mindedness of screwed up people like you.
If you want to deny them the same right to marry as anyone else, then you are not treating them as "equals."
Giving them the same right "as any other two people" is giving them the right to marry.
Please don't try to sugar coat your bigotry. It is what it is.
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Oh, yes, god forbid that bigots like you will just have to cope with not getting your way - because marriage equality IS coming to this country, one state at a time, despite the hatred and narrow mindedness of screwed up people like you.
I treat them equally. I couldn't care less what you call me or what you think. I havemany friends who are gay and both my uncles are gay, as are most of their friends that I have grown up with, most of them don't support gay marriage. They think it is just a way for some gays to smack religious people in the face.
BTW why don't you just put me on your ignore list so that you wont have to have your good mood ruined by a Christian, conservative, 17 year old girl whom you are so obviously threatened by?
Currently polling indicates that 50% of MD residents surveyed support gay marriage with 46% opposed.
One of the deciding votes was Del. Alston (D-Prince George's) who opposed it last year. Her quote was that she was voting "Yes" because she knew this would be going to referendum. She also offered the approved amendment that suspends the implementation of the law if there are court challenges to petition signatures.
Coincidentally Alston is under federal indictment for misuse of campaign funds.
Not much of a difference and I wonder if the poll conforms to the demographics of the state. The preachers of the PG mega churches and the priests across the state have 9 months to fire up their flocks against this law.
I predict a referendum repealing the law will pass in a landslide in November.
I havemany friends who are gay and both my uncles are gay, as are most of their friends that I have grown up with, most of them don't support gay marriage.
Oh, yeah, the "gay uncles" story again. I see this time, though, that you are elaborating on that theme by saying, "I havemany friends who are gay."
If you really do have gay uncles and "many friends who are gay" (which I doubt), I'm willing to bet that you are NOT speaking for them when you claim that most of them don't support gay marriage.
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BTW why don't you just put me on your ignore list so that you wont have to have your good mood ruined by a Christian, conservative, 17 year old girl whom you are so obviously threatened by?
Put you on ignore? And miss all your convenient little anecdotes? LOL
And I hate to burst your young, rather overinflated ego, but I am not threatened by you. LOL Too funny.
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, and plus I love seeing the social conservatives squirm over change.
