awesome! =D

Hmm. Why will it take till next year to go in effect?

read the Bible!

sweeet! we're getting there slowly. (:
and ashly, MY rights have nothing to do with YOUR religion.

fuck the bible. i dot understand y people loving each other would be against anyones religion. think out side the box and into others situations.

sweet for them.....

hellz yeah!!

Let 'em love each other and be together. It doesn't make a ton of sense biologically...but it doesn't hurt anyone and if anything lowers the dang birth rate, which is great considering how many people we have on the planet right now!

I know this will have a few of my friends excited, haha. Good to hear though.

isn't being slutty against the bible?

omggg..... please don't veto it!!

My smile gets bigger with each state that votes this way. I'm sooo excited. I just hope it'll be mine next.

people interpret the bible to their convenience. you can't use it back your argument up. dont.

..Why does it take so long to go into effect? Why can't they get married tomorrow, if it got passed and etc. :/

On a side note: ...There was a Gay President.

freaking great... now we need to get california or new york PRONTO

how come no womenz are on the cake ?

YES! THE HOMOSECUALS FINALLY GET SOME FUCKING RIGHTS!

Ashley Loves Animal; i agree completely with you. im sorry i don't disrespect gays but it wasn't meant to be this way.

'Fuck the bible' Real respectful of you, mhmm indeed. /sarcasm

On a side note, this is pretty interesting, it looks like a few states are shooting for this more frequently lately? Unless I'm missing something here. x]

finally!:D homosexuals should have the right!

That's great. Put the decision in the hands of a man with the last name "Lynch".

this isnt a matter of anyone loving another person its about taking the symbolism and meaning of marriage out of it. its breaking the bond between a couple and god and taking away from the thing marriage was supposed to lead to: PROCREATION think about it. there is nothing wrong with people of the same sex loving each other but its taking the meaning away from marriage.

YES!!!!!!!!!!

im glad ppl are more acepting now

With a name like lynch hmm sounds like a veto LOl jk maybe

Wasn't the meaning taken out of marriage when the divorce rate in America rose to whatever level it is at now? Is marriage so meaningful if a man goes to a party, gets totally blazed and marries a girl off the street? It's still a man and a woman, so G-d must be in their relationship.
The fact is, the only way to run a country fairly is to SEPARATE CHURCH AND STATE.
/logic

i don't get why people think that when homoesexual people gain something, we lose something.

marriage is still two people, who love eachother.

it's their life and their choice

And MyDecember, I thought that was funny and makes a good point.

really... this is ridiculous... gays SHOULD be allowed to get married EVERYWHERE. it is a legal contract and they are citizens too they have rights xx den NISI

It's about time. If two people want to marry, they should have that right. I would not want someone telling me I can't marry him just cuz he likes kissing llamas! hehe

thats great
but why the wait for them??

My thing is, in the Bible it states that 'God' loves EVERYONE. THEN WHY THE FACK DO RELIGIOUS SCUM BAGS TAKE IT TOO FAR AND END UP TEACHING THEIR KIDS THAT BEING GAY IS WRONG AND HORRIBLE! THAT right THERE, killed Larry King. WTF, I mean SERIOUSLY. Brandon KILLED, SHOT, Larry in the head for ASKING brandon to be his VALENTINE, what? he couldnt just say " no im not interested" ??? 'God' is such a hypocrite

=]
why so long?

The bible has nothing to do with law! I call for a complete and total separation of church and state. Religious affiliations should have no bearings when it comes to government. Be and let be! Jeesh! Why is this so difficult? I guess I'm partial because African-Americans just got there rights about 50yrs ago. We had to fight tooth and nail to get them. I believe all people should be given the same opportunities. They want to get MARRIED. To be with the person they love, to build a life together. Why is that so heinous?

Awh! Yay. I'm way excited now.

SO great! Slowly we are getting there! =)

this is fantastic!
Slowly but surely.

I agree with you mrsardali

Support all the way! : D people should lighten up, everyone should be able to love who they want and scream it out loud without getting bashed [:

GO NEW HAMPSHIRE! GO, GO, GO!

i'm so glad that states are slowly but surely getting there because most of my freinds are either gay or bi and might want t marry there bf/gf someday but i don't it will ever happen here in utah because so many mormons here are against us gay people it's totally unfair!!! us gays are people too we deserve some rights!!!!! of course i'm bi so i say i'm half gay

yay!

Im mixed on the whole gays marring thing, I do believe in God, but Im just mixed on evrything, && the same thing goes for inter-racial marriages, I mean I souldnt say much about tht since my aunt is married to a balck man but Im just really mixed on these topics

Let gays be who they want to be if that's what they believe in! If you were gay imagine how you would feel!

OMG YAY! i just hope it passes! Even if it would wait a year

times ten
go gays!

HUZZAH!

COOL

yeahhh =]
but i think its stupid that after they go through the vote,
the governor can just decide to say no.

btw, the bible talks about not judging, and how god loves everyone the same. maybe you should read it again.

This is so great! We are definately getting there as a country! One state at a time! People need to remember, there is a SEPERATION of church and state. I don't know how many times that has to be said for it to get into people's thick skulls.

That is so true i wrestled a tree once. I agree with you.

And it's not a sin to BE gay. I've asked my priest about that.

Plus, some people can't control or choose whether they are or not.

btw Fuzzy "'God' is such a hypocrite"
its not god. its people that think just cause theyre christians, they should have the say.
dont get me wrong, im a christian, im not trying to bash them.
but 97% of christians these days pick and choose which parts of the bible they believe is right.
and most the time, they leave out the important things.

God does love people and he loves everyone. we do not complain we are trying to protect the one thing we had that binded us to God with the person we love. God loves everyone but marriage was preserved especially for a MAN and a WOMAN. to make babies and procreate like we are supposed, like God inteded for us to do. we still accept people who are gay but we do not thing they should get married in the name of GOD. thats the issue. a true christian accepts gay people for who they are and holds nothing against them...people dont understand that because they dont want to listen.. Marriage is a sacramonial thing that God wanted us to have. realize it.

in my opinion i dont think people should state the bible as a source for passing or not passing laws... in our first amendment we r guarenteed freedom of religion... both free exercise and freedom from government establishing an official religion... people always complain about separation of church and state, so i dont understand y, when an issue like gay marriage rolls around, they end up quoting the bible? its not about wat the bible says, its about the rights of the people...

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Melissa your right a lot of christians choose which parts of the bible to believe but they're then not really being a christian they''re stemming off into the catholic sector of the religion tree. Catholics don't believe in the whole bible, Christians take it to the heart. but a lot of the bible is stories we are meant to take moral stories from and learn from the actions of others and apply them to our lives to learn from that.

i'm wicked proud that my state is recognizing this. i'm 500% christian and even though the bible in against it, God loves everyone and wants us to be happy. he accepts us for whole we are and i don't think God would want people to be discriminated for something they cannot control.

sweet, now lets go focus on education and energy reform. >.>.

i hope its voted down.

go N.H

Yes! That's awesome! The more, the merrier!

i really hope all states buckle and accept the gay lifestyle =]] we ar definately not going anywhere.

I'm Catholic and I belive that religion should not be envolved with politics And I Belive every body should have equal rights so go NH

whoo!

sick. i know many gay people in NH seeing as i live here. it would be great for them to get married~

I very happy about New Hampshire. I really hope this law passes. It may take a year to be put into full effect, but it will be worth it.

to jadiee;

"there is nothing wrong with people of the same sex loving each other but its taking the meaning away from marriage."

because cheating and divorce between straight couples doesn't do that same thing.

to anyone that looks at this from a religious standpoint: in the american constitution, it is stated that there is separation of church and state. when you look at it, marriage, in the modern day, is far more a legal matter than a religious matter. legally, everyone in america, as this is the principle it was founded on, is guaranteed "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." based on this phrase, supreme court justice warren has said, "The freedom to marry has long been recognized as one of the vital personal rights essential to the orderly pursuit of happiness by free men."

denying homosexuals the right to marry infringes on these basic rights, along with a number of others. that's why a good number of the states passing the "ok" law have said denying same sex couples the right to marry is unconstitutional.

as i wrestled a tree once. so eloquently said, "THEIR rights have nothing to do with YOUR religion."

That's amazing =]

I am SO happy!
This has got to pass.
We need to have gay marriage legalized EVERYWHERE.
<333

Quick question for the people who say gay marriage is taking ruining what marriage i about, which is supposedly procreation.... Um, do you believe that the men and women out there who were born unable to produce children should be denied the right to get married??
Everyone deserves the right to get married. G-d wouldn't have made me this way if he had a problem with it.... and NO I did NOT choose to be thiis way, so YES he MADE me this way!!
<33

this has nothing to do with straight people cheating and getting a divorce. that is a completly different aspect and is wrong according to the church.
this is a situation where people of the same sex are being married when marriage was originally a sacrament lawfully and religiously between a man and a woman. and society is so screwed over now that now seems to get that.

WELL, IT'S ABOUT FUCKIN' TIME! 8D
YAYYYY!

Truly, I don't see why people shouldn't vote for gay marriage. Pretending that gay people don't exist won't solve anything. It's like they think if they squeeze their eyes shut and vote no on gay marriage all the little gay people will just disappear. It's silly. WELL, THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT, THOSE OF YOU WHO WANT IT VETOED! NOTHINGGG.

And in refrence to "uwannbeme"
Christians do not believe that people who are born infertile should not get married.
That sometimes is not the implication of God, but what their parents did theres a ton of reasons why that happens. But God makes other plans for those people but it doesn't mean they shouldn't get married if they are straight.

Hell yeah!!

changes.

"this has nothing to do with straight people cheating and getting a divorce. that is a completly different aspect and is wrong according to the church."

because, yet again, comitting adultery isn't also wrong according to the church. /:

"this is a situation where people of the same sex are being married when marriage was originally a sacrament lawfully and religiously between a man and a woman. and society is so screwed over now that now seems to get that."

keyword: originally. nowadays, it's a legal matter. you can get married without a religious ceremony, but you can't get married without a legal issued marriage certificate/license.

i think maybe modern society is so screwed over now by people like you that seem desperate to cling to archaic beliefs and systems.

now if you want to reply to me again, come up with a different argument other than "the church says it's wrong." give me a good, plausible reason people should be denied their rights.

That's great!!!
Whoo!
Yeah smart senators!

good god, could all of the states just hurry up and do this so that i can stop reading about it as each individual state passes it?

sweet!
ii dont understand why everything has to follow with the bible. whats wrong with two of the same sex getting marry? its not really hurting anyone, but the people that in the marriage. love is love ashley.

New Hampshire is the Live Free or Die state; wouldn't it be hypocritical in a sense to deny the right of marriage to a certain group of individuals?

Jadiee; So what you're saying is infertile couples shouldn't be allowed to marry ? Because they can't have children either. Or elderly couples? Marriage is about love between two beings. Not just a man and a woman. Love doesn't have a body, love doesn't have shape or form. Its a feeling. You cannot love with your eyes and call it still love. Love is from the heart, and there, in the soul, is no gender, there is no colour of skin. Every citizen of America should be given the same rights, not discriminating their choices in life. We do not live in a theocracy. Christianity is not ruling our government.

i feel proud to be from NH.. it's cool how the state recognizes differences in people, but i think the states should mind their own business.. don't they have better things to do? why not pay more attention to our schools and stuff...?

YES!! It's a step forward in the right direction at least. GO NEW HAMPSHIRE! ^^

Well.
Our constitution states that we are entitled to the pursuit of happiness. There's also this thing called "Separation of Church and State", so religion should have no part in determining laws and whatnot. :]
(I am a Christian. I do believe what the Bible says. I'm for same-sex marriage. God will love you, no matter what you do or who you love.)

It's the end of the world as we know it. Before you know we'll be seeing gay couples being interviewed on an Eharmony commercial...when that days comes I will move out of this country! I want no part of a country that supports and allows abortion and gay marriage!

@Phlipiroth-
Why?

Amazing :] this country is definitely changing

if straight people can get married and then divorced and totally ruining their lives....why cant gay people do the same
im not saying that thats what they would do....im saying equal rights for everyone.....if one can do something without being hated...why cant anyone else?

btw go NEW HAMPSHIRE!!!

Score one for gay marriage.
Score -???? for me/Christianity.

What does marriage have to do with equal rights?

this is awesome

WOOOOO!!!!! Go my hometown

that's pretty cool i guess but what how does that affect the other states like I'm cool with same sex marriage and stuff love is love yanno? but how will that affect the public? Will there be more people moving to the 603 area code that are homosexual like I said I'm fine with it but like many others I know the whole PDA aspect of it is still foreign to me..... anyone think that this will affect NH public? Really it's a small state, and especially living in southern NH I'm sure it would be most prevalent there-do you think this would show up more? Y or N

this is great. hooray for society for having some self realization

but the thing is...
i dont understand what the big effing deal is about gay people getting married! omg, they're just like everybody else. why can't they just let them go about their lives?

i pose these questions to you all:
Define Love.
What makes a person Gay: god or a personal Choice?
What is the Sacrament of Marriage?

think about it.

YAY FINALLY!

neato!. this keeps gettingbetter and better.

yey :]
hope he doesnt veto

It sucks that they have to wait a whole year :-/

WOW I SLEPT THROUGH THE NEWS TODAY. FREAKIN REALLY?! I was waiting for it, Screw this. My state is FANTASTIC.

The BIBLE tells us to love someone as we love ourselves, our brothers, our sisters. IF we do not love others, we cannot love ourselves. Blah Blah Blah. Did a whole fucking speech about Gay Marriage and I used QUOTES FROM THE BIBLE. It's all about LOVE. Fuck you. Fuck what "religion"s say. (Feel Free to Message me if you feel what I am saying is complete Bullshit...If you have Issues with Gay Marriage, you aren't Helping anyone. Separation of Church and State -- GO BACK TO FUCKING SCHOOL).

Don't Question New Hampshire Senate and Government. They'll debate it. Change it. And Fuck you over. We're a random fucking little state.

suxz=]

how does this take away the meaning of marriage?
marriage is supposed to be when two people love each other right?
so what if it happens to be a man loving a man or a woman loving a woman

only in america LOL=]

wow. i just read that christians who pick which parts of the bible to preach about are not really christians but rather they're catholics!
well im catholic. not as devoted as others i admit but i never quote anything from the bible
all i ever say is that everyone should have the same rights
thats MY opinion

*Gasp*! *Crosses fingers*
But such a slim chance since he's against gay marriage. D:

AWESOME!!!!

To Jadiee :
For a lot of people in today's soceity, religion has nothing to do with marriage. For example, me : I'm straight and when I get marrried, I refuse for any religion to be apart of my ceremony. That may be what it used to be and still is for religious people today, but it's not for everyone, and you can't deny people's " pursuit of happiness " based on YOUR beliefs, because not everyone agrees with you and religion and state are separated in the constitution.

& since I don't believe in a " God " I believe that homosexuals are the way they are because of genetics. Something they DON'T CHOOSE.

Hooray. =)

@ Jadiee:
Love(n.)- When two people really really like each other and wish to spend their lives together.
2. It's genetics. You don't CHOOSE to be gay. And, to Christians, I think, genetics depend on how god creates you, so... Yeah... God.
Though I don't believe in God...
3. Sorry, I may sound stupid, but what is a sacrament?

yay equal rights!!!

Jadie- you say that marriage is a "bond set by god between man and woman"- what about atheists? We can still get married. Wanna take a wild guess why? BECAUSE MARRIAGE IS A LEGAL ISSUE. We don't care about your religion, we don't care about what your god or any god thinks about marriage. Your god is obsolete, his laws have no place being used as a guide book in the year 2009! Just as atheists don't accept marriage to be a bond set by god but rather as a legal bonding- gays should be given that same right.
Also, according to your bible don't we "sin" in the first place because your god gave us free will? By making gay marriage ILLEGAL you're taking away the same free will that you claim your god gave us! I don't know about you but at every church I've ever gone to they taught me that god wants us to praise him by choice, not by force!
You can believe that marriage is a bond set by god if you wish, you can JUDGE &HATE people as you please, &you can be as ignorant to the world around you if you want- but one thing that you cannot do is take away the rights of others because your religion believes it's wrong.

Go New Hampshire! I hope to see more states doing this in the future.

Why the fuck do some people think they can speak for God? Why don't you leave it up for Him to judge when the time comes, instead of trying to do His job for Him? If your God is against a man and a man, or a woman and a woman, then that's not even a God I would want to follow.

yay!!

Sweeeeet.(:

Props to you Leah Rae

omg yes change!

BOO!!!!!!

In this messed up world that we are living in,I feel if you are lucky enough too find someone who love`s and care`s about you, it does`nt matter if they are male or female ,just as long as you are there for each other and not hurting anybody!!

im all for gay marriage people should do as they please. no im not gay!

"The Bible is outstanding literature but it was not writen with the intention of governing a nation." forgot where I heard that but its so true.

who cares. maybe noone should get married =D

yay, good for them

sweet !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

yay cause love is love

Fantabulastic.

That's excellent. I think he will veto it, but I'm hoping he doesn't!
:]

yay!
now if it'll only be legal all throughout the country

Why wait so long? And why do people not deserve to have the same rights as everyone else is my question. Bible or no Bible, I don't think love is against any religions. Being Shinto I don't understand why so many go by the Bible when it comes to this, and still don't remember the book when it comes to killing and blackmailing.

Maine will be following suit soon. The day before yesterday it was voted 11 - 2 FOR same sex marriage. They expect it to go through everyone/everything and pass soon. So Maine will or should be next in New England to follow suit.

this is good.

Jadiee:
Actually, in Biblical terms, having sex constitutes being married. Technically, the sanctity of that has been gone for years now.
I suppose my beliefs would be defined as Christian, and I believe that Jesus taught LOVE above everything else. I just fail to understand how denying people their rights is showing them love.
Besides, when the founding fathers decided on "freedom of religion," they meant any religion, and I think we should have the same respect for other religions as we want them to have for ours.

YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That is amazing!
I am so happy for that.
Now lets just get the whole US to do it.
(:

whats veto?
or is it a typo?

woooo

this makes me smile

AWESOME!!

(: YAY

thats awesome! x3 congratulations! <3

Alright I've read some pretty big posts (not really but thats not important). First of all I wanna say something to the religious ignorances... First of all I am Catholic. But do you think I'm gonna dictate what someone else can and cannot do because I am catholic. Yah I am all for babies not being aborted but this? Marriage of same sex is what you choose to complain about? I agree with one of the posters in this comment box how everybody has rights and oh by the way free will WAS given to us as human being. Is that to say that being gay is wrong? No. Just as much to justify that heterosexuality is NOT morally correct either. There's no Morals in sexuality, only in people themselves, and you sure as hell cannot classify a group of people just because you think you can. It's been said all along, if you don't like thinking about 2 same sex people getting married, then don't worry about it. It's not going to affect you as a person, therefore its none of your business.

You know, I'm a pretty religious person, but honestly, being gay isn't that big of a sin in the Bible. As a matter of fact, divorce is worse according to God. They say "protect the Bible, protect marriage, protect our children," but divorce is doing much more damage to all of those things. Children should grow up learning to accept people and to understand that they may be different, and God may not like it, but He loves them just as much as anyone else. Teaching them that it's bad isn't doing anything but creating close-minded, hateful individuals.

That's AWESOME !

biological VS choice
meaning u didnt choose to be that but because of some chemical imbalance in ur body you like a man instead of a woman and vise versa. Grand aint it. your chemicals are screwed so u like the same sex.
i ask u when you are gay what do you generally look for personality wise when ur interested in the same sex. is it not the aspects of the opposite sex that appeal to the most in that person, that you loook for?
think about it

and im sorry but having sex outside of marriage is considered a sin one way or another and considered idultry.
society is society and will never change. k marriage will never have the same meaning ever if we keep thinking this way.

Wow, really Jadiee?? So you're saying gay people choose to have a chemical imbalance in their brains? Please explain how exactly a chemical imbalance can cause you to be attracted to the opposite sex? And why that would be considered an "imbalance". And if this is true, that it really is a chemical imbalance, then it would be virtually impossible to choose to have such a "defect", as one might say. How did this imbalance get there, Jadiee? Doesn't your God create us all for a purpose? Why would He want to go and do such a stupid thing as to contradict Himself? What purpose could that possibly serve, to create someone that has no choice whatsoever in who they love, yet damn them for it anyway?

Not everything in the bible is always as true from what it seems if you compare it with reality. Mabey God does have some sort of compassion in us if we seek salvation in him. There are far worse sins beyond homosexuality. I believe it is only right to think what YOU believe in, not something just out of a book.

thats not Gods doing when it comes to being gay or not. you cant blame him for the way you are when hes been asked t get out of our lives all these years. this is what i believe and in truth ive never read the whole bible. so im not believing something that i have just "read". No one shall be damned by God or by anyone but every single day gay or not people are damned by somebody. and chemical imbalance means you have more or less of a hormone of chemical in your body. this can cause people to have depression or other psychological issues. I am not saying that Gay people have psychological issues im just answering your question. God loves us all and will accept us all. we are not here to judge. That's Gods Job.

Ashley, everywhere I go if it has something to do with gays you have to say SOMETHING about "read the bible"
Sorry, read a lot of it.
'God' says divorce is a sin (if I am correct) he says avarice, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth are deadly sins. You have committed at-least one of them, so have I and so has just about everyone else in the world. So... Um... Where are the bans against those? Do you just not understand gays, and follow by the 'good book' so strictly that you cannot approve of human beings!

Everyone who is against homosexuality can suckk it. we dont care about your opinons, oh and fuck your precious BIBLEE! if you wanna argue this shit message me bitches;; WERE GAYY AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU

Whoever said 'God' says divorce is a sin (if I am correct) he says avarice, lust, anger, gluttony, envy, and sloth are deadly sins" Um "god" did not say any of those things actually and I am not even quite certain that they are actually in the bible, however the church created the seven deadly sins as a way to keep control over their people back in like 590AD by Pope Gregory. And shortly after it was made illegal for priests or any other high ranking officials to marry. (Which forced them to be secretly homosexual b/c come on the urges are there for everyone) SO yeah... anyway i'm all for gay marriage but yeah had to clear up what someone so wrongly claimed.