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[Karen]

I'm not sure if it made national news, but the Ban on Greyhound Racing passed in Massachusetts. The major media outlets only seemed to cover the "income tax ban" ballot measure, which was resoundingly defeated, but didn't mention the racing one, which was a close race.

[beeniesmom]

Yes, I am happy about that too (post#103)!

PCB, thank you for your post. You explained yourself in a very civil and educational way.
We will bring this up again when we are 80 year old women but for now... peace!

[lizbud]

I'm not sure if it made national news, but the Ban on Greyhound Racing passed in Massachusetts. The major media outlets only seemed to cover the "income tax ban" ballot measure, which was resoundingly defeated, but didn't mention the racing one, which was a close race.

I did see that the Greyhound Ban did win. They said it would take effect
in 2010, right? I found all state & national results on MSNBC, I think.

[GoldenRetrLuver]

This was the first election I was able to vote in. It was pretty exciting!
I was extremly happy to hear that Obama was elected and Proposition 2 passed.

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And, I actually took the time to read each and every single post in this thread.
(I know, lazy Saturday. )

PCB, I have known you for years on Pet Talk and you have been a wonderful friend to me. I have also known your views towards homosexuals and everything that revolves around this topic.

And of course, you are entitled to your own opinions, as is everyone else.
OPINIONS.
Not blatant attacks.

I found most of your posts to be very, very hurtful. I could literally feel my heart sink to the pit of my stomach reading through some of your sentences.

I am not going to start anything up, nor do I want to.
But, in my short 19 years of life, I have come across many people.
Gay, Lesbian, Straight. All of it.
I was brought up by both of my parents and was taught from the very beginning to treat other people with complete respect, whether they were white, black, green, blue, yellow, gay, straight, bisexual.. whatever. You get the picture.

In MY opinion, no one has the right to tell other people who they can love, who they can marry, who they can raise children with. No one.

No proposition, no law, no individual, can say it is "wrong."

I will not turn this into a religious and/or personal debate, but I thought marriage was based around the general idea of wanting to live and share your own life with someone whom you deeply love, admire, and respect (and can actually tolerate, most of the time ). How gender plays a role in determining this, I will never be able to understand.

Agree to disagree, I suppose.

I echo JenBKR's post. I love the preachiness of posts that espouse what their God says and doesn't say, and how it means someone else's belief must be wrong. Just makes no sense at all to me. And, to throw numbers into it, and talk in terms of the majority, all countries, all humans, etc., should advance an argument no further than the atrocities that went along with WWII. Many people thought Hitler was 'right', too.

I completely and totally agree.