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Obama gets the blame from gay lobby for lack of engagement
Albuquerque News.Net
Wednesday 4th November, 2009
Gay rights leaders in the US have expressed anger at what they have called a lack of engagement by President Barack Obama for an gay-marriage setback in Maine.
Maine voters on Wednesday rejected a law that would have allowed gay couples to get married.
The gay activists said they had been frustrated by scare-mongering advertisements paid for by Conservative groups and by President Obama, who they say didn't speak out forcefully enough in defence of the Maine marriage law.
The existing law, was challenged and repealed in a vote of 53 percent to 47 percent.
Had the Maine law been upheld by voters, it would have become the sixth state to legalise gay marriage.
It is expected similar laws, which resulted from court decisions rather than popular vote, will also be challenged in Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Iowa.
Gay rights groups have said President Obama missed his opportunity to state his position to help defeat anti-gay forces who have thrown millions of dollars into their ad campaigns.  Email this story to a friend
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Anonymous
11-05-09, 12:05 AM |
Same-sex marriage supporters blame Obama for election failure
Marriage is a contract between a man and a woman and as is relevent to all the man plus woman issues.. Same sex unions need a different contract with different clauses where appropriate.. simple as that
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Anonymous
11-05-09, 01:29 AM |
Galljdaj,the beeny boy will appreciate the same sex marriage because he is one of them.
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Cowardly Lion
11-05-09, 03:20 AM |
The LGBT Community needs to stop depending on Obama
It’s already been a year. We have already realized all that
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Anonymous
11-05-09, 06:31 AM |
Sick Society
Sodom and Gomarrah once again. Soon it will be marriage between man and animals, if we are not too careful.
Trust me, destruction will be catching up with you.
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nregistered
11-05-09, 10:47 AM |
Time to admit it gay people of America
You have been used!
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La Chatte
11-05-09, 03:48 PM |
When you promise
all things to all people for a self-serving purpose, it generally comes back to bite you on the ass, Mr. Obama.
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dreamers
11-08-09, 02:54 AM |
When did Obama promise to support gay marriage during the campaign? Liberals have a tendency to ascribe things to obama that he NEVER promised during the campaign. Exhibit A: gay marriage. Exhibit B: The public option.
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