Seven states vote to ban gay marriage

November 8th, 2006

New York, NY - Seven states voted to ban gay marriage, a cause championed by conservatives in an otherwise disastrous election for the US right wingers.

Seven states voted to ban gay marriage, a cause championed by conservatives in an otherwise disastrous election for the US right wingers.

The same-sex marriage ban continued a trend launched in 2004 when 13 states passed similar measures that analysts said had rallied conservatives to the polls, giving a boost to President George Bush's re-election that year.

But in today's polls, the gay marriage prohibitions passed despite a sweeping triumph by Democrats, who seized control of the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994 in an election that was dominated by the war in Iraq.

Voters in Colorado, Idaho, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin passed measures defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, according to television projections.

Conservatives lost another bellwether effort, however, when voters in South Dakota rejected a near-total ban on abortion.