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Help me skew another gay marriage poll

gotham island fae

19:18 / 17.02.04

Here is another poll that needs pro-queer assistance. My home state is currently attempting to create an amendment to constitutionally exclude homosexual couples from marriage.

There's no request for info and it is a one-click poll. Currently, those for exclusion of gay couples number about 460. Only 80 dissenters.

This one's not as monumental as the AFA one, but it would sure bring a smile to my fae face if we could fuck this one up just as well.

gotham island fae

19:21 / 17.02.04

Sorry, it's the front page. Just scroll down to the survey button on the main site.

gotham island fae

19:23 / 17.02.04

Jee-Zuz! Okay, here's the damn direct link.

gotham island fae

19:34 / 17.02.04

And just to be like that and grab one more post before anyone comments, the wording really doesn't allow for a pro-marriage stance. It's a question of whether the amendment is needed to reinforce the state law that already defines marriage heterosexually. Just bump up the 'no's' if you would.

w1rebaby

20:20 / 17.02.04

What a charming publication.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

20:21 / 17.02.04

483:101

I'll vote again when I get home, too.

Then I'll delete my cookies and vote again.

Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

20:23 / 17.02.04

Hell yes I'll help. I live in the state south of you, and I am surprised that we didn't come up with this first.

gotham island fae

20:40 / 17.02.04

What a charming publication.

Yup. Welcome to the Heartland, baby. A week ago, I woke up to NPR reporting that the defense being put forth during the congressional session boiled down, "God doesn't want gays marrying." Really. That's the only defense given for the amendment.

From the get go, I have been made livid everytime I hear anyone defend this whole issue by appealing to the sacred nature of marriage.

A) Sacred to every religion protected by the US Constitution? (Obviously not or they wouldn't want to change that one, too.)

And B) How is it rationally acceptable to defend a secular action (legislation) with the sacredness of it?

I wanna move to Utopia.

topical b

20:49 / 17.02.04

i'm getting 441:104:7

i'll email some non-barb friends to vote also. i wonder why my survey results show less votes than yours stevie.

gotham island fae

20:54 / 17.02.04

Not sure, topical b. I misquoted the number at first. Though decidedly over four-hundred, I think it might have been closer to 430. Unless Stevie was covering for my stupid head it should have read somewhere between that and what you see.

w1rebaby

21:22 / 17.02.04

I can hardly get all East Coast snobbish here (even if I was so inclined, and even if I was actually a local rather than just some Brit who lives there) given that Pennsylvania has Senator Rick Santorum... but I had to take the opportunity to spread that link.

Cloned Christ on a HoverDonkey

00:31 / 18.02.04

i wonder why my survey results show less votes than yours stevie.

Probably because I typed 483 instead of 438, due to some late-night, bleary-eyed sleight-of-hand.

gotham island fae

01:49 / 18.02.04

448 feel an amendment necessary to protect the institution of marriage.
122 feel it is not necessary.
7 are undecided.

And it's not a smart quiz. It lets you vote more than once. Even if the info isn't going toward anything actually effective, I want to throw a curve into some midwest perceptions, here.

Now, for the truly motivated, there's this survey to fuck, too. That one you actually have to give your info. But it's actually meant to go on and prove that America is a God-fearing, pastor-licking, woman-hating fundamental Christian nation. So, please stand up and say that's not the case with me, UStaters.

Thanks for your time.

And go vote repeatedly in the first one if you would.

Char Aina

01:54 / 18.02.04

didnt ganesh have a link to a site that helped one skew such things by having a list of yankee zipcodes for foreigners to use?

Mazarine

01:58 / 18.02.04

I read a very nice and logical letter to the editor penned by a Christian reader to Out magazine I believe, pointing out that marriage has already evolved a lot- in the Bible, men were supposed to have multiple wives and possibly a few concubines, and that doesn't really fly anymore in the States, and there was a time when interracial marriage was forbidden, and that thankfully is over. The gist of the letter (way more elegantly simple and probably shorter than my summary) was that marriage should continue to evolve and that it was in no way anti-Christian to give equal rights to homosexuals to marry. I'll try to find it, it was such a neatly presented and even-toned rebuttal to the extreme right.

gotham island fae

02:04 / 18.02.04

toksik, the first one doesn't need any info and the NU one needs your entire address and name. So, with the original one-click survey, even you across the ocean can vote continuously. (I think.)

That sounds great, Maz. Personally, I know that there is a growing acceptance of non-absolutist thought. Some of them even live in my state. I'd LUV to read the letter you speak of.

gotham island fae

02:05 / 18.02.04

edit: non-absolutist though among Christians

gotham island fae

02:15 / 18.02.04

can vote continuously

Or not. My machine at work let me do it a number of times. But not at home.

Poop. No mega-erisian jake of the journal for fae.

Oh well. Vote you lazy barbe-bastards & -bitches!

gotham island fae

02:53 / 18.02.04

It just jumped to 684.

And I don't mean my team.

Who knew so many conservatives in my own state read Barbelith?

aus

03:09 / 18.02.04

in the Bible, men were supposed to have multiple wives and possibly a few concubines, and that doesn't really fly anymore in the States

This might be threadrot, but I don't agree with bigamy laws. If people want more than one spouse and all involved are happy with the arrangement, why should the Government interfere? Why shouldn't we be able to have three-way or four-way (or more) marriages?

Not that I'd be married to more than one person at a time. I'm not socially adept enough for that. However, I wouldn't stand in the way of others.

Baz Auckland

03:43 / 18.02.04

Link here to the old (and departed) marriage poll thread WITH ZIP CODES!

I love that second poll... the last questions are all:

Do you trust pastors? congressmen? the president? the media?

All those 'no' answers just leave me feeling a little negative.

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