LGBT Scorecard

President: Americans elected Barack Obama, the most gay-friendly presidential candidate in this nation's history.

Proposition 8: Jury's still out on California's gay marriage ban. As of 4:25 a.m. PST, it was edging closer to passing, with 51.9% of people voting yes and 90.8% of precincts reporting, reports the San Jose Mercury News

Amendment 2: Florida constitutionally banned any institution approximating marriage, with 62% of the vote

Proposition 102: Arizona constitutionally banned same-sex marriage

Measure 1: Arkansas constitutionally banned any unmarriaed person from adopting children by a 57-43% vote

Jared Polis: Colorado voters made Polis the nation's first openly gay non-incumbent male candidate to win a congressional seat

Linda Ketner: South Carolina voters rejected the out lesbian's historic bid for a Congressional seat there 53-47%, according to the [Charleston] Post and Courier

Marilyn Musgrave: Rabidly homophobic Colorado Congresswoman and author of the Federal Marriage Amendment loses her congressional seat

New York state senate: Democrats pick up two seats to take control of the chamber, which opens the door for the state to potentially pass a gay marriage bill (New York's assembly has already passed a marriage legislation, Gov. David Paterson has indicated he would sign the bill into law)

Comments

[rox]

thats cool

[rox]

i've only just read it, and it isn't cool. what a pile of crap you can't ban gay people from getting married that aint right.

[Ted]

One positive development on Election Day. In, Connecticut, which just legalized gay marriage, voters voted by a large margin to reject a constitutional convention, which, among other things, could have put the issue of gay marriage to the voters like in California.