AZ Becomes First State To Reject Marriage Ban

[ruggerson]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20061108/D8L8S27G0.html

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Arizona broke a strong national trend by refusing to change its constitution to define marriage as a one-man, one-woman institution. The measure also would have forbid civil unions and domestic partnerships.

Eight states voted on amendments to ban gay marriage: Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin approved them. Similar amendments have passed previously in all 20 states to consider them.

"What we're seeing is that fear-mongering around same-sex marriage is fizzling out," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. He noted that the bans that succeeded won by much narrower margins, on average, than in the past.

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[Luna_Chick]

1. Woo hoo! I'm proud to be an Arizonan today

Looks like people are actually READING the full language of the propositions before voting now!

[DarkTirade]

2. Go Arizona!

That's where my grandparents live right now... and while I've never talked to them about gay rights, my grandma is a hardcore democrat/liberal in general. So I'm fairly certain I know which way she voted on that issue. :)

[bigwillq]

3. Thank you Arizona!

:bounce:

[justin899]

4. Do we know for sure that this is official?

Someone said on the radio yesterday that Arizona still had over 300,000 absentee ballots to count. How will we know when this is official?