Letter to the Editor: Vote No on Question 1

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Those who, like me, usually regard the issue of gay marriage with an automatic but rather passive support should be warned that it’s important to get active and vote next week.

While many moderate voters find the issue an innocuous, rather common-sense issue of human rights, a large body of very motivated opposition voters will be likely to vote, propelled as they are by strong emotions on this and the TABOR II issue.

If people want to avoid the disappointment of knowing their vote would have made the difference, they should make the effort to go vote No on #1 on election day. Thanks.

Cynthia Stancioff
Chesterville

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6 Comments

  1. but cyndy, what about the fraying moral fabric of society? shouldn’t we consider the harm that could come to my dozens of illegitimate, underfed and abused children by their being indoctrinated by activist teachers into believing that the gays can be as decent and loving as normal red-blooded, god-fearing, wife-beating americans? your arrogance concerns me to such an extent that i am driven to seek spiritual guidance from my morally upright and completely celibate childhood catholic priest. now, i wonder what ever happened to him?

  2. Please explaine how voting NO on #1 has to do with making a difference. How about saying ‘go and vote’ and make a difference. It looks like your driving your point of veiw down my throut.

  3. Defense of Marriage Act
    title of a federal law of the United States passed on September 21, 1996 as Public Law No. 104-199, 110 Stat. 2419. Its provisions are codified at 1 U.S.C. § 7 and 28 U.S.C. § 1738C. The law has two effects:

    1. No state (or other political subdivision within the United States) needs to treat a relationship between persons of the same sex as a marriage, even if the relationship is considered a marriage in another state.
    2. The federal government defines marriage as a legal union exclusively between one man and one woman.

    The bill was passed by Congress by a vote of 85-14 in the Senate[1] and a vote of 342-67 in the House of Representatives,[2] and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 21, 1996.

  4. Jonboy said “shouldn’t we consider the harm that could come to my dozens of illegitimate, underfed and abused children”
    For a minute there I thought you were describing the many offspring of heterosexual couples in society today

    Hutch you repeat yourself

  5. hutch: “the powers not delegated to the united states by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.”

    confuzed: clearly reading comprehension is not your strong point. the first sentence in cyndy’s letter identifies her intended audience as those who would already be against question 1 but not necessarily be concerned enough to go out and vote. to those that the issue affects it has everything to do with making a difference. your throut is safe from all points of veiw.

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