More encouraging polling, this time form Minnesota, shows we are close to a victory there -- it's all hands on deck time!
The increasingly costly and bitter fight over a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage is a statistical dead heat, according to a new Star Tribune Minnesota Poll.
Six weeks before Election Day, slightly more Minnesotans favor the amendment than oppose it, but that support also falls just short of the 50 percent needed to pass the measure.
Among likely voters, 49 percent would approve constitutional language that defines marriage as only the union of a man and woman. Another 47 percent oppose the measure, while 4 percent are undecided. Minnesota law requires any change to the Constitution to capture a majority of all ballots cast. That means a voter who skips the question is counted as a no vote.
... The slight edge for the pro-amendment side, while not outside the margin of error, shows "we are in good shape and reinforces our belief that if we execute our game plan, we will pass the amendment," said Frank Schubert, who leads that effort for Minnesota for Marriage. The other side, he said, "has not moved the needle" from a year ago, even after a months-long campaign. -- The StarTribune
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The amendment will pass. Now let's get more news on the efforts in Maryland and Washington to preserve Marriage.
>>That means a voter who skips the question is counted as a no vote.
So then Minnesota for Marriage really needs to get the word out that there is no such thing as choosing not to decide on this ballot. Make them keenly aware that if they skip the question, they have voted *against* defending marriage. Is that really the kind of world they to leave behind for their kids and grandkids? What they need to decide is which is more important to them: being politically correct or doing what they know is the best course of action.
People often talk about leaving a legacy. Well, here's a great opportunity to do so and it doesn't cost anything but what it takes to cast a vote. This is a legacy vote. What kind of America do you want to leave behind for your children and grandchildren? 30 years after you cast your vote, barring the Lord's return before then, will your descendants be proud of your vote for preserving marriage or will they be disappointed in you for caving to politcal correctness? Will you have left them a better society or a more chaotic one? Will your vote have left them with more freedom of speech or less? Will your vote lead to them having more religious freedom or none at all?
I believe support for the amendment is higher than 49%. Guess we'll find out soon enough.
Support for civil unions at 68%. Foolish. They're a legal stepping stone to marriage redefinition. But we'll fight that one at a later date.
Why don't we just ask the people who are actually affected by it?
"Is that really the kind of world they to leave behind for their kids and grandkids?"
You should be embarrassed to give them everything less.
A world in which some of those kids and grandkids are considered lesser than? I will do everything in my power to prevent that.
But not just for my kids and grandkids; also because it's just the right thing to do. There are victims hurting now.
Oh, and a vote to enshrine your religious beliefs into law isn't just not a vote in favor of religious freedom, it isn't even just a vote against religious freedom, it's a violation of religious freedom.
That is literally the first thing the freedom of religion forbids.
If one religion's rules are the rules of the nation, there is a required religion. That's kinda the opposite of religious freedom.
You're not just voting that you're kids don't have religious freedom, you're trying to prove that we don't know.
And I fear that you may not be entirely wrong. Go ahead and rejoice in the destruction of good.
I agree with Barb; if the poll says 49%, figure that actual support is around 60%, but the confusion of how blank votes are handled might make the result appear different from that.
I missed the discussion on how the ballot was designed, but where were the conservatives when it was decided that a blank ballot counts for anything?
Pat, you might recall that in a SSM, with an opposite-sex parent missing, those kids and grandkids might have no knowledge of you. Kinda hard to track genealogy when progenitors and offspring are legally severed.