Reply #34: You're right [View All]

[justin899]

It's still going backwards. It's one of the few states which doesn't have a single county or municipality enact gay-inclusive anti-discrimination laws.

Of course the amendment may not have had such huge numbers had anyone actually fought against it. It doesn't help when BOTH parties are running candidates on a homophobic platform. The Democratic governor voted for the amendment and even made a joke to a newspaper reporter that the only question would be whether it passed by 60&% or 80%. Then you had the homobigot Harold Ford, Jr, running on a platform of passing the federal amendment, bragging at campaign stops that he voted for the federal amendment in the House not once but twice, and that he would do the same in the Senate.

Free tip for future reference for Democrats: when the election is close it isn't wise for Democrats to tell their gay constituency that, if elected, they will discriminate against them by promoting a discriminatory constitutional amendment, especially when it isn't even an issue in the campaign. Doing so doesn't exactly make people eager to go out and vote for you in races which are dependent on voter turnout.