Texas says "NO" to gay marriages

Published on November 9, 2005 By drmiler In Politics

Here you see what a lot of Americans think of "gay marriages". The motion passed and not by a small margin, but by a whopping 74%. From NewsMax

Texas Voters Overwhelmingly Ban 'Gay Marriage'
NewsMax.com Wires
Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2005

Texas voters Tuesday overwhelming approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making their state the 19th to take that step. In Maine, however, a proposal to repeal a new gay-rights law was trailing in early returns.

In California, voters had a chance to embolden or embarrass Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as they considered four measures he promoted as part of a power struggle with legislators and public-employee unions.

The contest in Texas was decided quickly - the ban was receiving more than 74 percent of the votes in early returns. Like every other state except Massachusetts, Texas didn't permit same-sex marriages previously, but the constitutional amendment was touted as an extra guard against future court rulings.

Comments

drmiler

on Nov 09, 2005

bumpity-bump,bump.....bump.

ParaTed2k

on Nov 09, 2005

Isn't it sad that voters have to resort to Constitutional Amendments because judges have forgotten that they aren't legislators.

Dr Guy

on Nov 09, 2005

Isn't it sad that voters have to resort to Constitutional Amendments because judges have forgotten that they aren't legislators.

Democrats use them as legislators since they cant win at the ballot box.

singrdave

on Nov 09, 2005

Let's not forget, it ain't over till the last vote is counted.
That 74% could be overturned!

bakerstreet

on Nov 09, 2005

This, like other issues, is what is going to define our concept of Democracy for the next few decades. Abortion is another such issue. This began in the civil rights era, and frankly many people were wrong, or wrongly assessing the effects.

That is now giving us the idea that ANY way people differ with the Liberal interpretation of the Consitution is wrong, or holding back social progress. In the end we have to decide if we are really self-governed, or if judges selfishly and subjectively interpreting a 200 year old document are in charge.

Dr Guy

on Nov 09, 2005

That 74% could be overturned!

I demand a recount! The aborted were disenfranchised!

drmiler

on Nov 10, 2005

Let's not forget, it ain't over till the last vote is counted.
That 74% could be overturned!

Nope !

Big approval on the border
Along the heavily Democratic, Hispanic and economically distressed border with Mexico, it passed by 81 percent in Hidalgo County, 75 percent in Webb County and 86 percent in Jim Hogg County.

Republican and suburban Fort Bend County backed Proposition 2 by 82 percent while Republican and upper-middle class Collin County in North Texas voted 74 percent in its favor.

Dave Welch, executive director of the Houston Area Pastor Council, said churches and pastors statewide made a significant push on the gay marriage issue.

Clergy participated in "marriage protection Sunday" and spoke of the importance of marriage and its biblical roots, he said. Others ran a 30-second television ad featuring the touching hands of a man, woman and baby.

"That message was probably stronger ... in the minority church community than in the Anglo church community," he said. "Many were more active and more visible in coming out on the issue than many were in the suburbs."

Harris County favored the marriage amendment by 72 percent overall, but that proved slightly higher in the inner city black neighborhoods, several analysts noted.

Rice University political scientist Bob Stein said the measure won easily in the Houston area because of black support.

"In black boxes, it was 75 percent to 25 percent in favor of Prop 2," Stein said. "That's explained by heavy black turnout by African-American women who go to church."

Former state Democratic Rep. Glen Maxey of Austin, who led opponents of the amendment statewide, said minority sympathies on the issue were reflected in a Houston poll conducted last August by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

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