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theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
Fri Oct 10, 2014, 06:24 PM Oct 2014

Good Lord, Ohio... stop embarrassing yourselves!

Check out the comments to this article. Some are downright disgusting. Gay marriage has ARRIVED in state after state and this is all you got? Ohio is my home state and I'm embarrassed as hell. Living in WV now and even we have gay marriage!

http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2014/10/gay_marriage_re-emerges_as_iss.html
Gay marriage re-emerges as issue in statewide races
By Henry J. Gomez, Northeast Ohio Media Group
on October 08, 2014

What you need to know today in Ohio politics ...

The political fight over gay marriage: A day after the U.S. Supreme Court left alone laws that allow same-sex marriage in other states, David Pepper renewed his criticism of Republican Attorney General Mike DeWine for defending Ohio's ban.

Voters 10 years ago amended the Ohio Constitution to outlaw gay marriage. But a case before a federal appeals court would force Ohio to recognize such marriages performed in other states. Pepper, the Democrat aiming to unseat DeWine this fall, believes the appeal should be dropped, reports Tom Troy of the Toledo Blade.

Said DeWine: "I don't have, as attorney general, the luxury of deciding which parts of Ohio's constitution to defend. If the voters of Ohio 10 years ago had voted to allow gay marriage and that was in the Ohio Constitution I would defend that against attack."....

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