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Well, for me it was activism of sorts. Yes they are elected to create legislation, but occasionally in Maine we have laws coming out of Augusta that doesn't have the support of a majority of voters. The legislators who approved of same sex marriage in Maine obviously forgot to ask the voters how they felt about the issue before they voted on it.
Maine voters can tend be rebellious when they are told to accept something whether they like it or not.
So I'm assuming by this post you live in Maine? And that you voted to repeal this law? Just because some legislators already made it law without asking you? So though you don't care if gay's can get married you also don't mind trampling over them to "punish" the legislators?
And Alex is right. That is the legislators job.
Yes, I live in Maine, which gives me a bit more insight into how a lot of folks up here felt about this particular issue. I don't feel Maine voters are intentionally trampling over anyone. If you lived here you would realize most of us have a live and let live attitude. What lawmakers in Augusta can't seem to get a grasp of is a lot of folks in Maine don't like being told we have to accept laws being passed where we haven't even been asked if we want them or not.
I realize you can't grasp the concept that a lot of voters in Maine are fed up with legislation being forced on us without any consideration about voters concerns regarding laws we have to abide by. No, it doesn't bother me because I'm tired of laws coming out of Augusta that should been proposed instead of mandated.So you didn't mind stepping on gays in order to prove a point to the legislators. Doesn't that bother you?
Once again I don't feel we are stomping on gays as you so graciously put it. We were told we were going to accept this law without even being asked if we agreed with it or not. Not everyone who voted against it felt this way, but I know from talking to folks in my area it was a factor in how they were going to vote on it.And yes I know I've already posted that question several times. But 1: no ones directly answered it, and 2: I'm trying to get you to understand what it is you have done here. Which is stomp on gays...even though you don't care if they get married.
I realize you can't grasp the concept that a lot of voters in Maine are fed up with legislation being forced on us without any consideration about voters concerns regarding laws we have to abide by. No, it doesn't bother me because I'm tired of laws coming out of Augusta that should been proposed instead of mandated.
Once again I don't feel we are stomping on gays as you so graciously put it. We were told we were going to accept this law without even being asked if we agreed with it or not. Not everyone who voted against it felt this way, but I know from talking to folks in my area it was a factor in how they were going to vote on it.
First Off Peter shut the **** up you don't live in Maine nor in the United States so you have no ****ing idea what the hell your talking about. We the Citz. of Maine voted on this issue and decide that WE didn't want to have this law hence WE excerised OUR 1st Adm Rights. What ****ing part of that don't you understand oh I know US Constitution better then you Scorpion. maybe you should just stick to what the hell goes on in England and Europe from now on. Or get on a plane and move to Maine and learn something about us who live there.
If the issue of allowing same sex marriage would have been presented to Maine voters in the form of a referendum question on a ballot before it was forced on Mainers from the legislature I believe the outcome would have been different.
I don't oppose gay marriage. What I was opposed to was legislation coming from lawmakers telling us once again that they are hell-bent on passing laws in Maine without voters being included in the decision making process.
we have had the same discussions in Europe for decades, but over here, logic, freedom and liberty triumphs over religious bigotry.
This is what happens when you have mob rule... but at least things are improving. The majority is no longer an overwhelming majority. Things are changing.
So now we have legislative activism?
Legislators are elected to create legislation, that's what they do. The voters were included in the decision making process by electing the legislators.
a) Anal intercourse as well as w-on-w has nothing to do with logic, freedom or liberty;
Now the legal aspect of marriage is not a religious thing. This has to do with taxes, inheritance and so on and that is all civilian law... heck even marriage is that these days too.. you need a licence for example and can skip the whole church thing if you want.
LOL, when are you gay marriage advocates going to realize that normal people don't think like you? When the most liberal state in the union shot it down last year, you should have taken your hint and cut your losses.
For one thing, what goes on behind closed doors between consenting adults is none of anyone's business. .
What is really sad that in America today....basic human rights are put to a popular vote. To me that is more sad than any outcome.
Are you "for" or "against" democracy? Make up your mind. As they say in Russia "или трусы наденьте, или крестик снимите".
Democracy only when it suits your agenda is not democracy.
Do you think citizens rights should be put to a vote?
Precisely the point!
Then why do we have to be subjected to "Gay Pride" marches, gay awareness at schools or quotas for gay people at work?
If gays have a right to rub their gayness into our faces, then we have an equal right to oppose it.
Do you think marriage is a citizens right? How so?
Do you think citizens rights should be put to a vote?
Rights is not something everyone is born with. Rights is a dosage of freedom the society apportions to individuals on certain conditions; and if the majority of the society does not want to satisfy a demand from a minority of individuals then tough.
Are they doing "anal" in our faces? Cause I've never seen it. Precisely indeed.
We have a Constitution here in the US.
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