{"id":13388,"date":"2010-11-02T23:20:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T06:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2010\/11\/02\/13388.html"},"modified":"2010-11-02T23:20:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T06:20:55","slug":"some-post-election-marriage-eq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2010\/11\/02\/some-post-election-marriage-eq\/","title":{"rendered":"Some post-election marriage-equality notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A few gubernatorial election results relevant to marriage equality:<\/p>\n<ul>\n  <li>In Rhode Island, pro-marriage-equality Republican-turned-Independent Lincoln Chafee won the gubernatorial election. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Same-sex_marriage_in_Rhode_Island#Public_opinion\">60% of the RI population<\/a> supports equality, including 63% of the very large Catholic population. Former Gov. Don Carcieri is a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donald_Carcieri#Stance_on_LGBT_issues\">member of NOM<\/a>, so there was no chance of equality passing in RI during his term. I don't know what the RI state legislature's stance will be, but I'm thinking that the chances of equality in RI have gone way up.<\/li>\n  <li>In Maine, anti-equality Republican candidate Paul LePage is currently slightly ahead of pro-equality Independent candidate Eliot Cutler, with 84% of precincts reporting. Cutler was leading for a little while, but I don't know who's gonna win this. Of course, the governorship isn't as important (on this issue) in Maine, where it was a referendum that overturned marriage equality after it had already passed into law. But I'm still crossing my fingers for Cutler.<\/li>\n  <li>In California, the news orgs are calling the race in favor of pro-equality Democrat Jerry Brown, who has made clear that he will not attempt to intervene in the Prop 8 appeal. Unfortunately, however, anti-equality Republican Steve Cooley is well ahead in the race for Attorney General, with 35% of precincts reporting; I believe Cooley has said that if he's elected, he will attempt to intervene in the appeal. I was rooting for Cooley's opponent, San Francisco DA Kamala Harris (who I believe has said she would not try to intervene), but she's currently pretty far behind.<\/li>\n  <li>In Hawai&#699;i, pro-equality Democrat Neil Abercrombie is currently ahead, but with less than 1% of precincts reporting, that's not useful information. Fingers crossed; the last governor there was not so good with the LGBT stuff. The Republican candidate in this race wants to amend the state's constitution to ban marriage equality.<\/li>\n  <li>In New York, pro-equality Democrat Andrew Cuomo easily won. Of course, the governor hasn't been the problem wrt marriage equality in NY; Paterson has been vocally pro-equality. The thing I'm not clear on is what's going on in the NY state senate, which is where things fell apart last time there was a vote. I saw speculation an hour or two ago that the Democrats' two-seat lead in the senate may drop to a 31-31 tie. ~Yay, gridlock.~ Not that having a Democratic majority in the NY state senate is sufficient to get to marriage equality (as witness the last time they voted), but I'm guessing it's a necessary prerequisite.<\/li>\n  <li>Added later: I forgot Iowa, where Republican (and former four-term governor) Terry Branstad has now won the gubernatorial race. Branstad is opposed to marriage equality (and apparently has even said he would support a state constitutional amendment to revoke equality), but <a href=\"http:\/\/gayrights.change.org\/blog\/view\/dear_terry_branstad_marriage_equality_has_a_positive_impact_on_iowa\">according to change.org<\/a> in July, he's not rabidly anti-gay. So an LGBT group called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneiowa.org\/\">One Iowa<\/a> has been asking Iowans to write <a href=\"http:\/\/equalityfederation.salsalabs.com\/o\/35009\/p\/dia\/action\/public\/?action_KEY=107\">letters to Mr. Branstad<\/a> telling him how important marriage equality is. If you live in Iowa, it might be worth a try. (You can choose whether to let them post your letter publicly or not; there are some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneiowa.org\/category\/category\/personal-stories\">lovely stories<\/a> on their site.) One Iowa notes that, sadly, a bunch of pro-equality people <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oneiowa.org\/news-events\/perfect-storm\">lost the election today<\/a>, and three of the state Supreme Court judges who unanimously recognized marriage equality last year were voted out of office. Disappointing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any other relevant races out there? I haven't been paying much attention to this stuff; just started wondering tonight what effect the new governors would have, so went and looked it up.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few gubernatorial election results relevant to marriage equality: In Rhode Island, pro-marriage-equality Republican-turned-Independent Lincoln Chafee won the gubernatorial election&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,120],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-samesex-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}