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ACTION: NH Anti-equality amendment heading for a vote

March 26, 2007 By Laurel

CACR 1, a constitutional amendment to ban marriage equality, will be coming to the full house for a vote.  NH residents, contact your representatives, and tell them you oppose this amendment.  Remind them that:

  • All citizens deserve marriage equality.
  • Basic rights should not be subject to a vote.  Amendments to the Constitution should expand rights, not limit them or single out a group for different treatment. 
  • The Constitution is supposed to protect everyone. It is wrong to use it to hurt people.

    Find out how to contact your legislators here.  Get more info on the amendment and other NH equality happenings here.

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    1. john-howard says

      March 27, 2007 at 9:20 pm

      There’s also an important civil union bill coming up in the New Hampshire House this week.

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      In the words of Rep. Jim Splaine in his post on BlueHampshire:

      A rather historic vote was taken Thursday in Concord.  For the first time, a committee of the New Hampshire State Legislature endorsed a civil unions bill, which would allow same-gendered couples to have all of the same “rights, obligations, and responsibilities” currently given to differently-gendered couples.

      The House Judiciary Committee voted in a very bipartisan 15-5 vote to approve House Bill 437.

      He makes a good argument why it should be supported.  In the comments, I make my familiar argument that they should add seven little words modifying “all the rights of marriage”: except the right to conceive children together.

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      I am getting pretty good responding to the usual objections when people first are confronted with the idea.  In fact I think this is a perfect exchange – my questioners are  respectful and intelligent and ask good questions, and I only misspell ‘complementary’ twice.

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      To BMGers, let’s think about this civil union bill for a second:  Now, it’s already only civil unins they are considering, right?  Not marriage.  So, I ask you, why not add those seven words?  As I said to Rep. Splaine:

      I hope you have a chance to return to read the argument I lay out above, and i hope that you will add a clause to the civil union bill so that it gives all the rights, benefits and protections except the right to conceive children together.  I think this would be forward thinking and help New Hampshire couples have their civil unions recognized in other states and by the federal government.  That is much more important to actual couples than the right to attempt ridiculously risky and unnecessary genetic engineering.  Affirm that “love makes a family”, protect couples from exploitation by disreputable fertility doctors, protect children from dangerous experiments, and affirm that all marriages have a right to conceive, and help same-sex couples nationwide, with those seven extra words.

      • laurel says

        March 27, 2007 at 9:24 pm

        • john-howard says

          March 27, 2007 at 9:35 pm

          and you can explain why it is reprehensible there .

      • david says

        March 27, 2007 at 9:34 pm

        is hilarious.  Watch John Howard work his unique brand of magic on a new and utterly unsuspecting audience.  Giggle to yourself, as BlueHampshirites come up with the same arguments you yourself once advanced to shoot down Mr. Howard’s argument (by now, of course, you no longer bother) — you know what he’s doing to say, don’t you?  Why, you could almost write it yourself, you’ve read it so many times by now.  It’s like watching a newsreel of yourself from a few weeks ago on BMG.

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        Best free entertainment on the web!

        • john-howard says

          March 27, 2007 at 9:44 pm

          Except, look at it again:  it is they that raise an argument, and me that shoots each of their objections as they present them, one after the other.  I shoot them down with one post, they don’t ever even try to make a come back.  Which objection of theirs do you feel I did not shoot down?

          • david says

            March 27, 2007 at 10:00 pm

            that you’ve never shot down here: that you are the only one on either side of the debate who finds this to be an important issue.

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            takes bow, exits stage to wild applause

            • john-howard says

              March 27, 2007 at 10:20 pm

              Your just praying that no one picks up on this.  Name one other place where I didn’t shoot down the objection.  I know you can see, as each person asks it, why they are about to get shot down.  You know it and I know it:  I’m right.

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              And if the people that hate homosexuality fail to see the point in prohibiting genetic engineering, and consider this idea so completely useless to them, that just goes to show that this argument is free of animus toward homosexuals.

              • sabutai says

                March 27, 2007 at 10:38 pm

                How many Ameros will it cost to have such a procedure done once the North American Union has come into being — and if Bill O’Reilly covers the story, will be beat MSNBC and CNN COMBINED?

                • david says

                  March 27, 2007 at 11:36 pm

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