Source: [URL]http://wbal.com/article/87048/40/template-story/Senate-Approves-Same-Sex-Marriage[/URL]
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The Maryland State Senate this evening voted to approve legislation legalizing same sex marriage.
The vote was 25-22.
The vote sends the bill to Governor Martin O'Malley, who is expected to sign it as soon as Friday.
The bill is also expected to go to a referendum in November.
The vote took place after the Senate rejected seven amendments.
Montgomery County Democrat Jamie Raskin called the amendments "graffiti on the bill."
Among the amendments discussed today would be one that would let parents opt their children out of any public school instruction involving homosexuality.
Anne Arundel County Republican Bryan Simonaire says parents might not want their children exposed to a story book he read on the Senate floor called "The King and the King."
The story ends with the two principal male characters kissing each other.
The book had been included in the curriculum in Massachusetts public schools, a state where same sex marriages are legal, and parents there objected.
"Many parents wouldn't want their children exposed to this type of material," Simonaire told his colleagues.
That amendment was rejected by a vote of 30-17.
Simonaire also sponsored an amendment that would require public schools to officially recognize Mother's Day and Father's Day. The senator pointed out that some schools in Washington DC, refer to those holidays as "Family Day" so as not to offend same sex couples.
Critics of the amendment called it "irrelevant."
However, Simonaire said recognition of these holidays is "one of the real world consequences" of same sex marriage.
Simonaire’s amendment was defeated, along with five others, one of them would have made schools recognize Mother’s Day and Father’s day. Simonaire says some schools have stopped recognizing those holidays so as not to offend same sex couples.
Today's debate comes less than a week after the House of Delegates barely passed the bill.
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I approve of this. Some of the comments I'm reading on WBAL's Facebook page are appalling. People are so fucking biggoted it's ridiculous. They call themselves "good moral Christians" yet shit on everyone that they don't agree with.
ETA for this to happen in Texas?
Its like a good version of the domino theory.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;34839695]ETA for this to happen in Texas?[/QUOTE]
About 50 years.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;34839695]ETA for this to happen in Texas?[/QUOTE]
3112.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;34839695]ETA for this to happen in Texas?[/QUOTE]
As soon as the people there recognise the legitimate rights of gay couples
4112
I love my state.
[editline]23rd February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;34839695]ETA for this to happen in Texas?[/QUOTE]
Texas isn't the most conservative state by a long shot.
Welcome to the winning team, Maryland.
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;34839695]ETA for this to happen in Texas?[/QUOTE]
I figure about 200 years if some other thing (which would probably be a Constitutional amendment) doesn't force them into it by then.
Another one joins the winning team [img]http://www.facepunch.com/fp/emoot/toot.gif[/img]
I find it funny that the opponents to this have very little to say aside from "ew" or "stupid" or other bullshit.
I love shit like this, it makes me laugh:
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/11/michele-bachmann-howard-stern_n_1270537.html[/url]
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;34839695]ETA for this to happen in Texas?[/QUOTE]
It won't happen in Texas until we get a constitutional amendment and win the resulting civil war (Texas would secede over it).
[QUOTE=Red Toaster;34839856]I love my state.
[editline]23rd February 2012[/editline]
Texas isn't the most conservative state by a long shot.[/QUOTE]
Oklahoma is.
I can't even read the things people are saying anymore...sickening. Tons of biggots out there.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;34840099]texas isn't THAT conservative[/QUOTE]
My dad told me once when he was driving back from Florida to cali. By the louisiana/texas border he seen a clan rally on the side of the road. This was only a few years ago. I think Texas is easily the most conservative state.
The fact that that many people opposed the law is saddening.
Hope this happens in Montana soon.
[QUOTE=asteroidrules;34839985]It won't happen in Texas until we get a constitutional amendment and win the resulting civil war (Texas would secede over it).[/QUOTE]
That would be a pretty short war if Texas was alone.
[QUOTE=AeroSinthetic;34840183]That would be a pretty short war if Texas was alone.[/QUOTE]
It wouldn't be alone, but it would have far less allies than it did in the last civil war we had.
None of the state economies depend on a lack of gay marriage so most of the South would say "ugh, FINE" in the same way a child would say it if his mother told him to clean his room or risk being grounded.
[QUOTE=RichyZ;34840099]texas isn't THAT conservative[/QUOTE]
No, they aren't. Up until 1995, nobody could carry a gun legally, at all except cops. Now, you need a permit to carry.
Doesn't sound THAT conservative to me.
Why do they even try... Gay couples can already get married in a bunch of states, why not allow it on the rest of them?
Goddamnit people.
x1 winner for Maryland
Because we need to defend marriage :downs:
Clinton is at fault here, he signed it to get reelected and it was a fucking stupid decision.
We need to bring the proposition back to California, maybe the IQ level has increased over the time Prop 8 (anti-gay marriage) passed
I will not be celebrating this because of the fact that any amount of people voted AGAINST THIS
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;34840491]We need to bring the proposition back to California, maybe the IQ level has increased over the time Prop 8 (anti-gay marriage) passed[/QUOTE]
What are you suggesting?
[QUOTE=AJisAwesome15;34840491]We need to bring the proposition back to California, maybe the IQ level has increased over the time Prop 8 (anti-gay marriage) passed[/QUOTE]
That was overturned.
[QUOTE=Nikota;34840503]What are you suggesting?[/QUOTE]
Gay marriage isn't legal in California, we need to make it legal
[editline]23rd February 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;34840524]That was overturned.[/QUOTE]
It was? Looks like I'm not following the news of my own state
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;34840835]I love that it got approved, but[B] it was a pretty fucking close call[/B].[/QUOTE]
That alone is sad.
The more dominoes that fall, the harder it will be for the others to stay up.
Lets hope Florida is the next state to join the winning team
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