Every Single Senator From New England Voted To Kill the Anti-Gay Amendment

[ruggerson]

5 Republicans. 6 Democrats. 1 independent.

All NAY votes.

From the region of the country that actually understands family values, and how to value families, with the lowest divorce rate in the nation.

I have never been prouder to be a born and bred Yankee.

Kudos to every single one of these Senators.


Conn:
Dodd
Lieberman

RI:
Chaffee
Reed

Mass:
Kerry
Kennedy

NH:
Gregg
Sununu

VT:
Leahy
Jeffords

ME:
Collins
Snowe

[Random_Australian]

1. I like what I see!

[Tracyjo]

2. I need to move north n/t

[Withywindle]

3. They live close enough to Massachusetts to see

the sky hasn't fallen. Society hasn't crumbled. Straight marriages aren't rendered meaningless in droves.

Good for them!

[gaspee]

6. Also

RI is pretty accepting of GLBT. We, of course, have our goombas, but they are in the minority. Providence is a very progressive city. A gay mayor, home of The Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University, mixed population.

It's not perfect, but I've lived a lot of places around the country... Texas, Florida, California and I'm home in RI to stay.

Now if we could only get rid of our asshole govenor!

[cali]

8. Nope, that's not it.

Even if MA hadn't legalized gay marriage these folks would have voted against amending the Constitution. Like most Senators, they know it's dead wrong. In New England however, there will be no repercussions for voting against it.

[TomClash]

4. Of course they did

It's the land of "nobody's business."

[gaspee]

5. Exactly!

I've never heard it put exactly that way, but it's very fitting.

I'm a New Englander born and bred and that pretty much sums things up nicely.

[NMMNG]

7. New England is great that way

Now if they could do something about those winters....

[undeterred]

9. So did both our senators from Wisconsin

Feingold, who isn't afraid to show some backbone, and Kohl, who has been in the closet most of his life.