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NM Legislator ScorecardsAs issues arise, bills are purposed, and legislation is passed; it is important for New Mexicans to know how their Senators and Representatives voted. As that information is available it will be posted. This has relevance because this legislation will most certainly be purposed again this year. Sometimes it is impossible to know how individual legislators voted when voice votes are taken. Individual votes can be determined when roll call votes are called for. Senatorial Traditional Marriage vote - 2007 Legislative Session (a 'yes' vote favored traditional marriage, where a 'no' vote was in favor of homosexual unions)
Special Thanks to the four Democratic Senators who voted with the Senate's 18 Republican Senators to help save traditional marriage; Jennings (Roswell), Cisneros (Questa), Rainaldi (Gallup), and Smith (Deming). A brief explanation of the Senate vote above and the house vote that follows needs to be written here. The original bill, House Bill 603 was a bill legalizing "Domestic Partnerships." Right minded legislators and voters saw through the lies and jargon here and saw it for what it really was - a big step towards legalizing homosexual marriage in the state of New Mexico. The proponents of the bill claimed it was not intended for that purpose at all, but was designed to solidify the legal rights of some very rare cases where individuals in dire straights would have better legal standing. To test their claims, and show the bill for what it was, legislators against gay marriage added an amendment to the bill called the "friends of marriage" amendment. This amendment made the legislation more specific and would have preserved the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman, while allowing for children to help dependent parents or certain family members to help other blood relatives in need by using the other provisions of the supposed "Domestic Partnership" from the original language of Bill 603. The amendment was rejected vigorously, tabled in a motion by Ken Martinez, and as a result, the "Domestic Partnership" bill failed as a whole. The Gay Marriage groups had no intention of helping actual families and other people who might have benefitted from the "Domestic Partnership" legislation, but were only interested in giving homosexual couples the same legal rights and standing as traditionally married couples. When morally sound language was introduced as an amendment, all the jargon about helping the very people specifically defined in the amendment was rejected, showing that the only real interest of the people who proposed and voted for Bill 603 were trying to do was promote homosexual marriage in our state. The following is the vote in the House of Representatives on the "Friends of Marriage" amendment. A No vote is in favor of traditional marriage as one man and one woman, a Yes vote would have been cast by legislators who advocate for male homosexual and lesbian marriage.
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