November 5th, 2014
NOM puffs its chest over yesterday’s elections:
“Marriage won an overwhelming victory last night,” said Brian Brown, president of NOM. “In red states and blue, candidates who supported marriage as the union of one man and one woman won election and those who didn’t were rejected by voters. The Republican Party should take note that their nominees who favored gay ‘marriage’ were opposed by NOM and they were resoundingly defeated.”
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Timothy Kincaid
November 5th, 2014
NOM’s Enemy Number One, San Diego GOP candidate Carl DeMaio (who is also Enemy Number One for a number of gay Democratic Party activists) holds a small lead over Scott Peters.
The election will be determined by provisional and absentee ballots. In San Diego, that may represent a large military vote, which tends to trend Republican.
Perhaps the chest puffing of NOM is a bit premature.
Mark F.
November 5th, 2014
Anyone who pisses off both NOM and Partisan Democrats can’t be all bad.
MattNYC
November 5th, 2014
Scariest line of the night:
Scott Lively 19,178 votes
Are there really nearly 20,000 (voting) idiots in the Bay State?
Timothy Kincaid
November 5th, 2014
I’m guessing that these were just folks who didn’t like the major party candidates and just picked one of the independents at random.
Richard Rush
November 5th, 2014
Brian Brown said, “Marriage won an overwhelming victory last night,”.
Right. After all these years, it looks like God finally answered one of NOM’s prayers on election day. . . . Oh, wait, another Federal judge struck down a marriage ban, this time in Kansas . . . on election day.
Oops.
Nathaniel
November 5th, 2014
LOL. Equality NC is touting its own victories (with the exception of Thom Tillis, who probably won more voters for being not-Kay Hagan as he got for being anti-gay). Everybody wants to see the silver lining in the results.
tristram
November 5th, 2014
@Timothy – there are plenty of social conservatives in Massachusetts; so I suspect that just about every vote for Lively was entirely intentional. Social conservatives are a large enough element in the Mass. GOP that Charlie Baker had to take on a full-fledged fundie, Karyn Polito, as his running mate in order to ensure that the base would vote for him. Now that Baker/Polito are in, she is one cabinet appointment (for Baker) away from the governor’s office.
MattNYC
November 5th, 2014
Interesting article on Southern Baptists and discussion of Homosexuality…
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/10/30/3586418/southern-baptist-erlc-homosexuality/
Mark F.
November 10th, 2014
MA voters often elect GOP governors to counter-balance the heavily Democratic Legislature.
Timothy Kincaid
March 5th, 2015
tristram,
Karyn Polito just signed an amicus brief to go before SCOTUS supporting marriage equality.
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