Signatures keep pouring in!
The Maryland Marriage Alliance announced today that it plans to submit an additional 39, 743 signatures to the Maryland State Board of Elections as part of efforts to add a referendum on the state’s same sex marriage law to the November ballot.
The addition brings the total of signatures supporting the referendum to 162, 224.The Maryland Marriage Alliance submitted more than 122, 000 signatures to Maryland’s Secretary of State May 29, more than double the nearly 57, 000 signatures required to add a referendum.
One-third of the required signatures were due by the end of May. All signatures were due by June 30.
A partner of the Maryland Marriage Alliance, the Maryland Catholic Conference called the outcome “a phenomenal response.” The MCC worked with Catholic parishes and organizations, including the Knights of Columbus, to collect signatures through parish-based petition drives.
The MCC trained volunteers to ensure collected signatures were valid and would withstand the strict scrutiny expected from the Board of Elections. According to the MCC, the Board of Elections has already validated more than 109,000 signatures.
“The everyday people of Maryland have shown unprecedented support in this petition process, and we will carry that enthusiasm forward to the November elections with thoughtfulness and compassion,” the MCC executive director Mary Ellen Russell said in a June 25 statement.
“We are Democrats, Independents and Republicans, spanning generations from every corner of the state, and represent many faiths and no faith,” she said. -- The Catholic Review
Find out what you can do to help out in the next stage at www.MarylandMarriageAlliance.com.
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Excellent job!
Amazing.
All people are people of 'faith'.
(Everyone has some sort of 'faith', though it might not be theistic. People of NO FAITH, do not exist.)
Ask the Supreme Court whose has 'faith' and who does not.
It is a big mistake to allow people to masquerade as having no 'faith', and affect secular society - because to them it simply means they are ideological 'neutral' and R. Catholics are not 'neutral'. That is philosophical nonsense.
This mistake leads to all the problems we have on the topic of civil marriage, and leads to religious people being called 'bigots'. Allow the concept of people of no faith, and you have capitulated completely.
Please do not fall prey to the paradigm that has led to injecting 'glad' marriage into the secular definition, and 'ejecting' religious people from the secular political platform.
Mary Ellen Russel: “We are Democrats, Independents and Republicans, spanning generations from every corner of the state, and represent many faiths and no faith,”
Will they pay their bills?
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-samesex-marriage-foes-owe-74k-to-gop-delegate-20120626,0,4262079.story
Oh, ZJuice, please be cordially assured we will see to it
GO MD!
3X the signatures is a very, very, very good sign for November.
Awesome! May Maryland take the next step is standing for what is right and just.
Great work!
The sleeping giant has awakened. Supposed ssm'ers BEWARE!
Voting on the rights of a minority is unconstitutional. Even if you "win", it will be overturned, like Prop 8.
AD, the Maryland Supreme Court found in 2006 that defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman IS constitutional.
"THERE IS NO RIGHT TO SAME SEX MARRIAGE"
Associate Supreme Court Justice, Elena Kagan
Congressional Confirmation Hearings - May 2010
She is absolutely correct!
Slowly but surely, the unjust laws of the land are being overturned.
Quickly, and impressively, the voters of this nation are seeing and organizing against the profoundly radical consequences of same sex "marriage" laws.
Those horrible consequences, like in MA and Iowa, where absolutely nothing bad has happened as a result of gay people being able to get married.
But yeah, I'm sure you can think of something to prove me wrong.
AD wrote:
Those horrible consequences, like in MA and Iowa, where absolutely nothing bad has happened as a result of gay people being able to get married.
But yeah, I'm sure you can think of something to prove me wrong.
Please watch the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egxB0dTajb4
AD wrote:
Voting on the rights of a minority is unconstitutional. Even if you "win", it will be overturned, like Prop 8.
And yet Black DEMOCRATS (a minority) keep voting for real marriage (one man, one woman).
Maybe this is due to history. Unlike Black people, homosexuals NEVER endured Jim Crow-style oppression much less slavery due to their sexual behavior.
http://lashawnbarber.com/archives/2008/10/30/race-and-lifestyle-choice-a-blood-boilingly-bad-comparison/
http://pfox.org/african_americans.html
So, a homosexual shouting "I'm oppressed" sounds as silly to a Black people as Bill Gates complaining to a homeless man "I'm poor!" The fact that so many gays like Tim Gill are billionaires or have lots of political clout vindicates this skepticism among Black people. After all, truly oppressed people lack both wealth and political influence.
Also, Black people have faced the ugly, even RACIST side of "gay marriage" activists. Whether it's homosexual activists bribing spineless lawmakers to oppose a mostly Black city (Washington DC) the right to vote on marriage. (can you imagine the media outcry if White HETEROSEXUALS committed such injustice?) Or tolerating activists hurling racial slurs at Black people who disagree or even agree with them. :
http://holycoast.blogspot.com/2008/11/n.html
http://www.truthwinsout.org/blog/2008/11/974/
You'll note that just ONE "gay marriage" group (Truth Wins Out) condemns such homosexual bigotry against Blacks. I guess "Racism is okay as long as you're gay."
Given the evidence, can you blame Black people for viewing "gay marriage" activists as being less Dr. King and more KKK?