Mary Connaughton Caught Signing Anti-Gay Petition

Mary Connaughton, candidate for Massachusetts state auditor, refuses to answer question about having signed an anti-gay marriage petition.

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• massachusetts
• auditor
• Connaughton
• Suzanne Bump
• gay
• election
• petition

[GasconyKid]

Christ raised marriage to the dignity of a sacrament; clearly, there's no such thing as a marriage between creatures of the same sex. These people need to get a life, and a rectoencephalectomy while they're at it.

[thursdaysrecords]

There are no reasons for bigotry, only excuses. Fancy words, with a light sprinkling from the Bible (a book based on two guys who never had sex, but wanted everyone to love one another...sounds gay, no?), claiming not to judge anyone?

If you aren't gay, how could you know what it's like. Your hogwash suggests that sexuality is no choice. Subtle homophobia without hateful phrases.

The problem with being gay is that there is no problem. Stop insisting that we fix what was never broken!

[phantomsuccour]

I hope the bigot lost.

[LifterWill]

Watch her slip siding around like a fucking greased pig. These people make me sick.

[JohnRhysMusician]

@sunderlandgrl But it is different. It is a new separate designation, gay marriage, or same-sex marriage, marriage in its purist form is between a man and a woman. Any other type of marriage is not marriage, and many judges have failed to realize that. Those that wrote marriage law never thought that marriage could be interpreted as anything else but a union between a man and a woman.

[sunderlandgrl]

@JohnRhysMusician That's the thing. You see I did look up 'marriage' and that's what it says. Both of those definitions are under the word 'marriage' in the dictionary.

[JohnRhysMusician]

@sunderlandgrl I said look up marriage not gay marriage. The argument that "gays" use is that they are excluded from marriage and that under the equal protection clause they are entitled to marriage rights. I disagree with them and believe that they have the same rights to marriage as a heterosexual person, but if gay marriage is indeed something totally different than marriage and has a different definition there is no consititutional dispute. Courts cannot disregard the definition.

[sunderlandgrl]

@JohnRhysMusician I created another definition? Actually it was the dictionary, not me.

[JohnRhysMusician]

@sunderlandgrl You've just created another definition. If you create a separate insititution your constitutional argument completely falls apart. The hard truth is that no one is excluded from marriage because of their sexual orientation. Everyone of us has the right to marry under the definition.

[JohnRhysMusician]

@sunderlandgrl Hate? I encourage you to look up the definition of marriage. There is nothing about marriage being of party A and party B. It has been defined as a committment between a man and a woman for thousands of years. I'm not sure why someone who chooses to deviate so greatly from social norms would desire to become a part of a religious institution that just happens to be recognized by the state.