“The greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself. And if we accept that a mother can kill even her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?” —Mother Teresa (Speech at the National Prayer Breakfast, February 3, 1994)

I went to bed last night willing, reluctantly, to conceed that the results for the various amendments across the country might not be in the news. I probably should have looked harder. This morning I accepted no such conclusion and found them on CNN.^[1] Scanning the list:

• They are not yet calling it, but it looks like the Same-Sex “Marriage” ban will fail in Arizona by about thirty thousand votes.
• Colorado voted against domestic partnerships, 53% to 47%.
• They also voted to ban Same-Sex “Marriages,” 56% to 44%.
• Idaho voted to ban Same-Sex “Marriages,” 63% to 37%.
• Missouri voted to allow embryonic stem cell research, 51% to 49%, a forty-five thousand vote difference.
• Parental Notification failed in Oregon, 54% to 46%.
• South Carolina voted to ban Same-Sex “Marriages,” 78% to 22%.
• South Dakota failed to ban abortion, 44% to 56%.
• News from South Dakota is not all bad, they voted to ban Same-Sex “Marriages,” 52% to 48%.
• Tennessee voted to ban Same-Sex “Marriages,” 80% to 20%.
• Virginia voted to ban Same-Sex “Marriages,” 57% to 43%.
• Wisconsin voted to ban Same-Sex “Marriages,” 59% to 41%.