Posted on 09/03/2004 9:19:39 AM PDT by leftcoaster
No link yet, sorry.
Petition was cetified with well over 100,000 plus extra signatures, but partisan Board of Canvassers split 2-2 along party lines to prevent it from being on November ballot.
Dems claimed it was too vaguely worded (not their job to make that decision).
Court of Appeals has overruled Canvassers, and as of right now it will be on the ballot and thus help the turnout for conservative voters in Michigan.
This is great news. Michigan goes in the Bush column!
What about Nader?
Looks like Nader is on the ballot too:
http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/business/index.ssf?/base/news-18/109422776041000.xml&storylist=mibusiness
Same sex is fixing to die as an issue in Michigan.
Nader is on the ballot.
Why bother? Some judge will just overturn the results anyway.
Why bother? Some judge will just overturn the results anyway.
It will be challenged in court should it pass, you are absolutely correct.
BUT: It will be on the ballot, and thus spur turnout during the presidential election and will help Bush carry Michigan.
Yah! All the pro-Bush 'turnout' secondaries are really working in our direction. We have Gay Marrage in Ohio and Michigain, Mel Martinez in Florida, and Nader in the ballot on at least two of these states (Nader in Ohio anyone?)
Take THAT Jenny Grandstand.
It's a mystery to me why so many republicans are homophobes. Gay people just want the same health insurance, tax breaks etc. that married heterosexuals enjoy. There's nothing immoral or radical about that. This kind of reactionary legislation will hurt republicans in the long run.
The left keeps calling it 'anti-gay', and we all fall for it; it is actually traditional marriage protection. The constitution guarantees God giving rights; marriage between a man and a woman is a God giving right, so an amendment to protect such right should not be called anti-gay.
orangelobster
Since Aug 30, 2004
Well Chalk up Michigan in the R column. I know it shows Kerry by 5 or so right now, but with Gay marriage on the ballot and Kerry and Dems being for gay marriage... that will change big time by election day.
Repulsion and/or standing up to pervertion is not a phobia.
'Gay people just want the same health insurance, tax breaks etc. that married heterosexuals enjoy.'
They can have all that if they marry a person from the opposite sex.
'There's nothing immoral or radical about that. '
Wrong. Everything about it is inmoral and radical.
'This kind of reactionary legislation will hurt republicans in the long run'
Actually the homos are the ones reacting, and legislation to protect marriage between a man and a woman will benefit all of us.
Get lost pink lobster.
Then you shouldn't have a problem letting the voters in Michigan decide for themselves whether it's "immoral or radical".
The voters in Missouri decided 70 to 30 that it was.
Nader is on the ballot in Iowa too...
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