Florida Gay Marriage Foes Come Up Short

[William769]

(Tallahassee, Florida) A group collecting signatures for a proposed amendment to Florida's constitution to ban same-sex marriage has failed according to the Associated Press.

State records at 5 p.m., the deadline for turning in the signatures, showed that the group had turned in about 446,000 signatures, well short of the 611,009 needed, but the totals were unofficial.

Florida4Marriage conceded that it was likely to fall short the AP reports.

Officials at the state Division of Elections likely wouldn't be able to say with certainty Wednesday night whether the group had turned in enough signatures, because they had to be verified, a division spokeswoman said.

The deadline for turning in the petitions to local clerks was today.

Despite being short Florida4Marriage dispatched three planes around Florida to deliver petitions to couriers, who then drove the signed petitions to various counties to be counted.

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/02/020106flaAmend.htm

I guess there is still hope for Florida after all.

[Atman]

1. Yet, these morans will still claim they are the mainstream

They never seem to get it. They are defeated over and over again on these issues, and the best they can do is blame liberals. Get a brain, morans! If you're hate-filled policies were what the people wanted, you'd have too many signatures, not 200,000 too few. Get it? Understand how this works? Just claiming you're the mainstream, just because you want everyone to think like you, is not the same as actually being in the mainstream. Now put away your silly petitions and stop trying to run everyone else's lives.

[Zenlitened]

2. Excellent news. I'm enjoying the vision of tens of thousands...

... of Florida residents saying, "You want me to sign this? Not on your life, creep. You and your bigoted little petition just get the hell away from me."


Hats off to the good folks of Florida! :applause: