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Title: “No on 8” – When Reactive Politics Become Losing Politics
Post by: Hazumu on January 01, 2009, 11:27:55 PM
by Paul Hogarth, Jan. 01, 2009

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QuoteNow that discrimination has been enshrined in our Constitution, it will require another vote of the people to have it repealed. I don't doubt that with the state getting younger, future efforts at marriage equality will be successful. But I can't help believing we have seriously blown an opportunity in this election to give the right wing a stunning defeat—one that would forever leave them on the ash heap of history.