Seventy Towns Reject Anti-Marriage Article

by: Dean Barker

Mon Mar 15, 2010 at 19:07:35 PM EDT

Here is a list of seventy towns that rejected the resolution.

This list does not include 88 of New Hampshire's 231 towns and all of New Hampshire's 13 cities that refused to take the issue up.

Alexandria ,Alstead, Andover, Antrim, Barrington, Bartlett, Bethlehem, Boscawen, Bow, Bradford, Brentwood, Brookfield, Brookline, Chesterfield, Chichester,.Colebrook, Deerfield Dublin, Easton, Franconia, Farmington, Gilsum, Goffstown, Greenland, Groveton, Hebron, Hillsborough, Holderness, Hollis, Jackson, Jaffrey, Kensington, Lee, Lincoln, Lisbon, Lyman, Lyndeborough, Marlborough, Marlow, Meredith, Monroe, Newbury, Nelson, New Durham, New Hampton, New London, Northumberland, Northwood, Nottingham, Ossipee, Pembroke, Plainfield, Plymouth, Rindge, Rumney, Rye, Salisbury, Sharon, Shelburne, Strathford, Stratham, Sugar Hill, Temple, Tuftonboro, Walpole, Westmoreland, Wilton, Winchester, Wolfeboro, Washington.

So, when is the Union Leader going to write a new article on what really happened?

(Full release below the fold...)

Equality wins again

Equality wins the popular vote with seventy towns having already rejected the anti-gay resolution. "Once again the people of New Hampshire have spoken and said we believe in equality and individual liberties and we do not believe in amending our constitution to take away peoples rights" said Mo Baxley, Executive Director of New Hampshire Freedom to Marry.

Here is a list of seventy towns that rejected the resolution.
This list does not include 88 of New Hampshire's 231 towns and all of New Hampshire's 13 cities that refused to take the issue up.

Alexandria ,Alstead, Andover, Antrim, Barrington, Bartlett, Bethlehem, Boscawen, Bow, Bradford, Brentwood, Brookfield, Brookline, Chesterfield, Chichester,.Colebrook, Deerfield Dublin, Easton, Franconia, Farmington, Gilsum, Goffstown, Greenland, Groveton, Hebron, Hillsborough, Holderness, Hollis, Jackson, Jaffrey, Kensington, Lee, Lincoln, Lisbon, Lyman, Lyndeborough, Marlborough, Marlow, Meredith, Monroe, Newbury, Nelson, New Durham, New Hampton, New London, Northumberland, Northwood, Nottingham, Ossipee, Pembroke, Plainfield, Plymouth, Rindge, Rumney, Rye, Salisbury, Sharon, Shelburne, Strathford, Stratham, Sugar Hill, Temple, Tuftonboro, Walpole, Westmoreland, Wilton, Winchester, Wolfeboro, Washington.

These results are totally consistent with UNH Survey Center polling that demonstrates 74% of New Hampshire citizens are not bothered by marriage equality. Opponents of equality having failed miserably in their effort. They have failed to reach a simple majority of New Hampshire voters let alone the 2/3 necessary.

No issue has had more public discourse than this one. With public hearing held in Littleton, Keene, Portsmouth and Nashua and multiple public hearings held in Concord that lasted all day. Literally thousands of New Hampshire residents have participated in the public discourse over the last few years and have collectively come to support marriage equality.

This amendment has already been defeated by the New Hampshire House of Representatives by a vote of 201 to 135. Similar constitutional amendments were rejected in the last two legislative sessions, in 2006, under Republican leadership, and 2007 under Democratic leadership.

These non-binding resolution's are an attempt to turn neighbor against neighbor and trick citizens into supporting this hateful constitutional amendment that reads define marriage whether in name or effect, as the union of one man and one women.

This would not only repeal marriage equality but would also make civil unions and or any other type of relationship recognition for gay/lesbian couples unconstitutional.