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Originally posted by [url=http://www.wfaa.com:
www.wfaa.com[/url]] Marriage Amendment
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Precincts Reporting: 6151 Of 7429 83%
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Winner Candidate Votes Vote %
Against 459,358 23%
In Favor 1,463,300 76%
So far, this is making quite a statement from the people in Texas!!
For those that don't know, Proposition 2 makes anything similar to marriage between a man and a woman unconstitutional!!
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Originally posted by Woodencross:
For those that don't know, Proposition 2 makes anything similar to marriage between a man and a woman unconstitutional!!
So does that mean marriage between a man and a woman is unconstitutional?
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What?
So umm... ok... I can't even think of what they were thinking when they came up with that.
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Originally posted by Davo:
Originally posted by Woodencross:
For those that don't know, Proposition 2 makes anything similar to marriage between a man and a woman unconstitutional!!
So does that mean marriage between a man and a woman is unconstitutional?
that's what i was wondering? 
or is that more like common-law marriages? or gay marriage?
this thread needs more info. 
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Texas voters Tuesday overwhelming approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making their state the 19th to take that step. In Maine, however, a proposal to repeal a new gay-rights law was trailing in early returns.
In California, voters had a chance to embolden or embarrass Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as they considered four measures he promoted as part of a power struggle with legislators and public-employee unions.
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The contest in Texas was decided quickly - the ban was receiving more than 74 percent of the votes in early returns. Like every other state except Massachusetts, Texas didn't permit same-sex marriages previously, but the constitutional amendment was touted as an extra guard against future court rulings.
The campaign had been enlivened over the past week because of a controversial tactic by the amendment's opponents, who argued in recorded phone calls to voters that the measure is so poorly worded that it could jeopardize traditional man-woman marriages. Amendment supporters denounced the effort as misleading.
In Maine, early returns indicated voters were spurning a measure placed on the ballot by a church-backed conservative coalition that would repeal a gay-rights law approved by lawmakers earlier this year. The lawmakers expanded the state's human rights act to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, a step already taken by the five other New England states.
With about 12 percent of the precincts reporting, 57 percent of the voters were voting against the repeal effort
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I think he means, anything for gays that is simmilar to marriage between a man and woman is unconstitutional. In other words, gay marriage/commonlaw/whatever are all not allowed in TX. Makes me happy to be moving to TX 
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New Mexico has outlawed common law marriage since the 1880's.
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Ok, I was very confuzed earliar... I was thinking it meant a regular marriage (man+woman) was unconstitutional! THAT would be crazy 
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Originally posted by Woodencross:
Originally posted by [url=http://www.wfaa.com:
www.wfaa.com[/url]] Marriage Amendment
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Precincts Reporting: 6151 Of 7429 83%
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Winner Candidate Votes Vote %
Against 459,358 23%
In Favor 1,463,300 76%
So far, this is making quite a statement from the people in Texas!!
For those that don't know, Proposition 2 makes anything similar to marriage between a man and a woman unconstitutional!!
America's inabilty to let people chose for themselves strikes again.
In my state, the most restrictive ban on smokign is winning big.
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