Comments on: Poll: Majority of black Marylanders back same-sex marriage

By: NAACP president: Md. marriage law ensures religious freedom | Washington Blade - America's Leading Gay News Source

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:26:34 +0000

[...] A Gonzales Research poll last month indicates 44 percent of black Marylanders back marriage rights for same-sex couples, compared to 52 percent who oppose nuptials for gays and lesbians. A Hart Research Associates survey conducted in late July found that 44 percent of black Marylanders would support Question 6, compared to 45 percent who would vote against it. A Public Policy Polling poll in May found 55 percent of the state’s black voters support marriage … [...]

By: William Borner

William Borner — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 18:29:56 +0000

August 19, 2012
In Defense of Family
Dear Fellow Marylanders:
I am a culinary food scientist who arrived in Baltimore a quarter century ago with little more than my degree in hand. I embarked on a career with local food manufactures feeding you milk, bread, and spices. I have lived for over two decades with my life-partner, a health care administrator with a renowned medical institution of this region.
We are vested stewards of our Baltimore City block. The Stars and Stripes routinely fly over our Riverside home from Flag through Defenders Day.
I helped my partner raise his son, who made his Army Dads extremely proud by serving this Nation honorably in Iraq. Enchanted and enthralled, I cradled that soldier’s new born daughter in my arms a few hours after her birth in a maternity ward in Western Maryland. Honored and humbled, I held that baby’s great-grandfather in my arms just hours before his passing in Hospice on the eastern shore. Sadly, these loved-ones engraved upon my heart are not, according to the law of our State, my kin.
My partner and I ask our fellow citizens, for whom we’ve devoted our careers nourishing and nurturing, to expand their definitions of “family values”. Please uphold civil marriage equity for all Maryland families.
William Borner
Baltimore City

By: Jealous: There's a "very good chance" Md. voters will support marriage law | Washington Blade - America's Leading Gay News Source

Wed, 20 Jun 2012 19:17:40 +0000

[...] A Public Policy Polling survey last month also showed that 57 percent of black Marylanders would sup… [...]

By: Md. marriage referendum supporters submit 113,000 signatures | Call Me A Homo

Tue, 29 May 2012 21:15:14 +0000

[...] Baltimore-based National Association for the Advancement of Colored People announced its support of nuptials for gay… during their National Board of Director’s quarterly meeting in Miami on May [...]

By: Md. marriage referendum supporters to submit signatures | Call Me A Homo

Md. marriage referendum supporters to submit signatures | Call Me A Homo — Tue, 29 May 2012 18:12:04 +0000

By: Maryland marriage referendum supporters to submit first signatures | Washington Blade - America's Leading Gay News Source

Tue, 29 May 2012 17:39:28 +0000

By: Mayor delivers remarks at D.C. Black Pride kick off | Washington Blade - America's Leading Gay News Source

Tue, 29 May 2012 16:27:24 +0000

[...] rights for same-sex couples during their National Board of Directors’ quarterly meeting in Miami. A survey that Public Policy Polling released earlier this week indicates that 55 percent of black Ma… in a likely November [...]

By: Glen

Glen — Sun, 27 May 2012 03:29:29 +0000

Sorry FemEagle, but you are thinking of States which voted on this from 4 to 10 years ago. Even 4 years ago marriage equality was lagging in the polls. But over those years support for marriage equality has gone up and up and up.

Now 12 separate polls over the last year have shown that marriage equality has finally reached majority support. Many of the States which passed bans, if held today would fail to pass them. Granted you have a point that the fundamentalist religious nuts NEVER miss a vote, so they have an advantage over those who support marriage equality but it’s not going to motivate them to get to the polls. But Obama being on the ballot will.

And soon it won’t matter who’s on the ballot, as marriage equality continues to gain widespread support and it won’t matter how many fundamentalists go to the polls, they won’t win.

Of course, denying marriage equality is a violation of the U.S. Constitution anyhow. So… eventually too, the Supreme Court will strike them all down.

By: Mayor delivers remarks at D.C. Black Pride kick off | Call Me A Homo

Mayor delivers remarks at D.C. Black Pride kick off | Call Me A Homo — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:13:52 +0000

By: Poll: Majority of black Marylanders back same-sex marriage – Washington Blade

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:55:05 +0000

[...] Poll: Majority of black Marylanders back same-sex marriageWashington BladeBy Michael K. Lavers on May 24, 2012 A new poll indicates that a majority of black Marylanders would vote for the state's same-sex marriage law in the likely November referendum. The Public Policy Polling survey found that 55 percent of the state's …EXCLUSIVE: Support grows for Maryland's same-sex marriage lawWashington Post (blog)Gay marriage: About time or unnatural?Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)New poll by same-sex marriage advocates shows gainsBaltimore Sun (blog)The South Florida Times -TPM -On Top Magazineall 931 news articles » [...]