NH: Paper Spinning Failure of Anti Gay Marriage Campaign as a Win?

Written by scott on March 19th, 2010

Dean Barker, a managing editor at Blue Hampshire, has kindly given me permission to post a copy of his latest diary here at Pam’s House Blend. Note that organizations Dean mentions, Cornerstone and LetNHVote, were the ones behind the recent FAILED attempt to intimidate the New Hampshire legislature into putting a vote on the definition of marriage on a referendum ballot. Remember that New Hampshire isn’t even a referendum state. –Lurleen

For the second time in as many weeks, the Union Leader tried to spin the anti-marriage petition effort’s massive fail in a misleading direction. Their effort today was so one-sided it felt like I was reading a Cornerstone release verbatim.

Cornerstone/LetNHVote The UL would have you believe that there is almost a 2/3rds majority support for writing discrimination into our constitution. Instead of dignifying that misleading spin with a verbal response, here’s a map that Granite State Progress put together. The towns that rejected the article, as well as those where the anti-marriagers couldn’t even scratch up the requisite petition signatures, are in blue, while those towns where it passed are in green (not passed by the 2/3rds needed for a constitutional amendment, mind you, just the sum of those passed):

Full Story from Pam’s House Blend

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