Restore Marriage in New Hampshire?

[William769]

the Family Research Council to repeal marriage equality in New Hampshire received the support of presidential candidate Rick Santorum, On Wednesday Rick Santorum spoke to a crowd of about three dozen people at a Holiday Inn parking lot in Concord.

"Our country is not founded on the individual,” Santorum said, “It is founded on the basic unit of society, which is the family. You don't want to found your society on individuals, because that's like founding a house on grains of sand."
Christopher Plante of the National Organization for Marriage northeast regionan said of the New Hampshire legislature’s passage of a marriage equality bill in 2009, “We're going to let bygones be bygones, And we're going to look in January and say, you're going to be the first in the nation to legislatively repeal homosexual marriage."

The University of New Hampshire Survey Center released a poll January 27-February 6, 2011 which found that 62% of New Hampshire residents opposed the new Republican-dominated legislature's efforts to repeal the 2009 law legalizing same-sex marriage, with only 29% in favor of repeal. In addition, 51% voiced strong opposition to repeal.

http://www.unh.edu/survey-center/news/pdf/gsp2011_winter_issues020911.pdf

http://news.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view/20110209poll_shows_support_for_nh_gay_marriage_law/srvc=home&position=recent



The New York Times reported in July 2011 that "pressure is mounting for the Legislature to take another historic step by reversing course" and repealing the law legalizing same-sex unions. The effort was expected to begin in the legislature, in which Republicans gained a strong majority in the 2010 elections, in January 2012 with a vote in February 2012; conservatives are uncertain whether they would be able to override an expected veto by the governor. The repeal bills would not affect existing same-sex marriages, but would prevent new ones.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/us/politics/03gay.html?_r=1

New Hampshire’s state motto is “Live Free or Die”. This will be interesting to see how this plays out.


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[badhair77]

1. Where do they get this stuff?

"Our country is not founded on the individual,” Santorum said, “It is founded on the basic unit of society, which is the family. You don't want to found your society on individuals, because that's like founding a house on grains of sand." Santorum

[Tesha]

2. They make it up as they go.

E.g., if they were defending war, they'd declare it's the duty
of all male members of the family to march off to their
glorious deaths.

Whatever suits the immediate rhetorical need, that's the santorium
that spews from their mouths.

Tesha

[qb]

3. ??? NH already has more marriage than most other states!

What's to restore?
:sarcasm:

[EC]

4. Wait a minute here.

I thought that the repubs were all about Individualism?

[Unvanguard]

6. They're about selfishness. That's not the same thing.

Selfishness and social conformity.

[sakabatou]

5. "So if you don't want or can't have babies, FUCK YOU!"

[William769]

7. Poll Shows Little Support For Repealing Same-Sex Marriage

DURHAM, N.H. -- A new poll shows strong support for allowing same-sex marriage to continue in New Hampshire.

Republicans in the state Legislature are scheduled to take up the issue of same-sex marriage when they reconvene in January. Same-sex marriage was passed in 2009, and a poll from the University of New Hampshire Survey Center shows strong opposition to attempts to repeal the law.

The WMUR Granite State poll shows that only 27 percent of New Hampshire adults support repealing same-sex marriage, while 50 percent strongly oppose repeal. The percentages are similar to a poll asking the same question in February.

The poll of 500 randomly selected New Hampshire adults was conducted by phone from Sept. 26 through Oct. 2 and has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4.4 percent.

Read more: http://www.wmur.com/politics/29476349/detail.html#ixzz1alT5enLB