Wisconsin bucking trend on gay marriage
Josh Goodman at Governing magazine has "come to the conclusion that Wisconsin's vote on gay marriage is going to be one of the biggest showdowns on the issue in recent memory." He says:
Fifteen of the sixteen gay marriage bans that have passed in the last 24 months did so with a higher percentage of the vote than Bush received in the state in 2004 and the average difference was a massive 13.5 percentage points.Check out his Governing post on the subject.
Based on the polls in your state, this gap might completely vanish. To a lesser degree the same scenario is also playing out in Virginia.
He notes that civil unions are also part of the issue here, but says that has not made much difference in other states, so Wisconsin would be going against the flow -- I suspect because there is an effective campaign telling people what the amendment really means.
posted by xoff @ 4:06 PM
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How about Halliburton?
Steves, you hold the record on this blog: 21 posts between noon and 7 p.m.
Get a life, buddy.
Steves (You're not Rick Steves are you?) let's replay...
"What further group of parasitic criminals will be the next we attempt to protect?"
Again, Halliburton. Halliburton, as in crooks. As in, oh I give up.
"'households' currently using alternative structures to marriage to qualify for state & federal benefits might be at risk in loosing access to these benefits.
That is true. Households registered as domestic partners could lose their domestic partnership benefits if this amendment passes. (Incidentally, there are no federal benefits for domestic partners.)
"My contention is if they knowingly are falsifying their actual status to take from the public purse, that they are commiting fraud & theft.
Nobody is falsifying their status. To be a registered domestic partnership you must prove you are exactly that. They would not lose their benefits for "commiting fraud and theft", they would lose their benefits for being who they are.
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