WMUR Granite State Poll Shows Strong Support for Marriage Equality

Republicans/Tea Partiers/Free Staters... (4.00 / 8)

...are you listening to the people?  They're YOUR citizens too.  

As of today, more than 1,675 New Hampshire same-gendered couples have celebrated their love and caring for one another in marriage.  

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 01:35:22 AM UTC

1,713 Marriages (4.00 / 1)

As of today, the accurate figure from the NH Bureau of Vital Statistics is that there are 1,713 same-gendered marriages that have been celebrated because of our marriage equality law.  

That's 1,713 ways to make the institution of marriage stronger than ever!

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by: Rep. Jim Splaine @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 17:39:51 PM UTC

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Great news... (4.00 / 12)

...that the NHGOP supermajority will ignore on their attempt to repeal and their march to infamy.

A house that gives Al Baldasaro the cue to lead them in the pledge after his attack on men and women in uniform is blind to the world outside their ego.

birch paper; on Twitter @deanbarker

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by: Dean Barker @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 02:14:53 AM UTC

And utterly incapable (4.00 / 5)

of comprehending a single syllable of what you just wrote, much less grasping the irony of the pledger's act.

Blind and deaf.

They. Don't. Care.
We do.
Rinse, repeat.

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by: GreyMike @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 03:57:11 AM UTC

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As one of the 1,675 (4.00 / 8)

I just wish they'd leave us alone.  Every year the haters and fear mongers seem to get their jollies terrorizing those of us who don't meet their definitions.  They are no different than the Taliban or other radical extremists. Most of them call themselves christians.  I call them them cultists, whether they are mainstream or not.  They need to get a life, as they say, and just go away.

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by: mevansnh @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 10:04:12 AM UTC

But there's money (4.00 / 4)

to be gained by hating.  Apparently those outside sources of funds for who-knows-what trump any concern for their fellow citizens.  I know hannah thinks their brains don't work properly, but that leaves them wide open to being bribed by the highest bidder.  

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 12:25:59 PM UTC

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Kinda like (4.00 / 3)

the bill just passed by the Congress to make women, especially pregnant women, 2nd class citizens.  Wonder how Charlie and that other criminal voted?

Where are the jobs?

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by: mevansnh @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 12:42:01 PM UTC

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Wide support for Gay Marriage (4.00 / 4)

There's a state GOP vice chair in my area who is already on the rolls to speak against the several different repeal bills in Concord.

My father-in-law, a 'devout' Republican, has agreed to go to Concord and speak against any repeal efforts.

I remind both as often as I can that their extroverted support goes a long way, is needed, and welcomed.

Support from the right will ultimately allow NH to retain marriage equality - that's where our energy should be focused.  

Aaron / Deering. Kuster 2012: http://www.kusterforcongress.com/

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by: nhveedub @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 12:58:03 PM UTC

That's where THEIR energy should be focused. (4.00 / 1)

Trying to purge this poison from the Republican Party is their job, not ours.

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by: elwood @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 15:27:08 PM UTC

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A Problem with Polling (4.00 / 1)

I was struck by one section of the UNH poll. When asked whether marriage equality was a big deal or not, the vast majority said, "Not so much."

Only 8% of Granite Staters believe that legalizing gay marriage has had a major impact on the state, 38% think it
has had a minor impact, and 47% think it has had no impact on the state. Importantly, only 9% of Republicans and 11% of
conservatives think it has had a major impact on the state.

When asked how legalizing gay marriage has impacted their own lives, the great majority of New Hampshire residents think it
has had no impact. Only 6% think that legalizing gay marriage has had a major impact on their lives, 12% think it has had a
minor impact, while 81% think it has had no impact. There are no significant demographic differences in how Granite Staters
feel gay marriage has impacted their lives.

What do we take away from that?

I thought New Hampshire's ratification of marriage equality was a very big deal, a major statement that the state believes all are equal - and if I'd been called for this survey, I'd have been among the 8% who said it had a major (positive) impact.

I guess that would've been the wrong answer.

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by: Tim Ashwell @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 17:27:10 PM UTC

I agree with both. (4.00 / 2)

This was a BFD.

And it has had no major impact on the state.  We haven't been smitten by any of the four horsemen of the apocalypse, so we have that going for us.

It has made an impact on the lives of some - a terrific impact.  But perhaps this is an understandable minority - we haven't been the most tolerant state, although it seems quite real that this has changed.

And, on a personal note, my marriage of nearly 30 years has not been affected.  It has not been destroyed.  It has not been discounted.  I only hope that others can find a loving partner who is as forgiving of their imperfections as I have.

In the immediate aftermath of Since the start of the financial crisis, the Fed/Treasury lent, spent, or guaranteed $28 $29 trillion to save the banking system.

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by: StraffordDem @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 17:42:53 PM UTC

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Marriage (4.00 / 2)

is hard work, and something that any society should embrace as a process of "becoming," as opposed to "being."  We are social beings, and being part of a family, a community, a region, a culture, is essential to full function.  Anyone who is excluded suffers, and we lose their potential contribution.  Everyone is important.  
And this is part of what the Occupy movement is about, beyond the economic issues.  Many of us are being denied the chance to be fully functioning human beings when the top !% grab at all the assets of the society, and deny others the right to participate as equals.  That's been an American ideal since the founding of our democracy, and while it has never been fully implemented, we have made progress, and mostly because we had to fight for it.  

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by: Lucy Edwards @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 18:57:36 PM UTC

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Tell that to (0.00 / 0)

Brian Brown or Pretty-boy Smith.  I doubt that they'd agree.  Or even Master Bates.

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by: mevansnh @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 20:02:35 PM UTC

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why (4.00 / 2)

did they call David Bates so many times?  

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by: susanthe @ Fri Oct 14, 2011 at 20:02:00 PM UTC

Here's a must watch video (0.00 / 0)

for those who care about this issue, and for those who don't:  http://southernequality.org/  

Don't take it away.

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by: mevansnh @ Sat Oct 15, 2011 at 15:31:15 PM UTC