Wisconsin Seen As Best Chance For Defeat Of Gay Marriage Ban

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/Newscon06/09/093006wisconsin.htm

When it comes to statewide votes on gay marriage, the score so far is 20-0 in favor of keeping it a one-man, one-woman institution.

If there's a chance to break the streak on Nov. 7, it might be in Wisconsin, where activists believe that support from unions, college students and church leaders _ coupled with hoped-for conservative apathy _ could enable them to finally overcome the string of losses.

Among the hopeful are Debbie Knepke and Candice Hackbarth, devoted partners for nine years, raising a 3-year-old daughter and 7-month-old son in pleasant Milwaukee neighborhood. They have joined some 8,000 other volunteers in a bid to defeat a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage and civil unions.

[terrya]

1. I think so, also.

Man, I hope the good people of Wisconsin defeats this. After the court decisions of Washington State and New York, it would be great for a win. And hopefully the New Jersey Supreme Court will rule in our favor.

I really think this amendment in Wisconsin will be defeated. I don't think the religious right is as prevalient in the state as some of the other states where these amendments have been ratified.