US voters reject gay marriages
Pastor Dale Morgan
US voters reject gay marriages*
From correspondents in Washington
November 08, 2006 07:59pm
Article from: Reuters
AMERICANS voted to ban gay marriage in seven states, a cause championed
by conservatives in an otherwise disastrous election for the US right wing.
The same-sex marriage ban continued a trend launched in 2004 when 13
states passed similar measures that analysts said had rallied
conservatives to the polls, giving a boost to US President George W.
Bush's re-election that year.
But in today's polls, the gay marriage prohibitions passed despite a
sweeping triumph by Democrats, who seized control of the House of
Representatives for the first time since 1994 in an election that was
dominated by the war in Iraq.
Voters in Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee,
Virginia and Wisconsin passed measures defining marriage as a union
between a man and a woman, according to television projections.
Conservatives lost another bellwether effort, however, when voters in
South Dakota rejected a near-total ban on abortion.