You could just as easily have said, "Lamontagne stands up for Conservative values in NH." It's all in how you look at it. Lots of voters in NH agree with Ovide.

He is veering off into dangerous territory with those words. Famiies come in so many forms, and as long as children are being cared for responsibly and are healthy and happy, who is to say what is the ideal?

Nothing surprising here. Any of the Republican candidates will push the social engineering agenda of the right and be a rubber stamp for the radical Republican state legislature.
We could easily be subject to the religious whims of the radical right this time next year if we do not protect the governorship from these zealots.

Ironic, that the next article I read on my newsfeed after this one is that Dick Cheney's daughter, Mary, and her longtime partner (a woman!) were married in DC recently. I will pay a large amount of money to see Ovide Lamontagne or any other conservative tell The Cheney's that their family is less than ideal. Maybe you could go on a hunting trip with Vice President Cheney and use all that time to help him see the error of his ways.
How many other conservatives have to come around before bigotry is no longer a conservative value? Just looking for a ballpark figure here.

Every person is entitled to his/her own opinion on what makes the ideal family, and the mistake that many of us make is forgetting that. Lamontagne is welcome to his beliefs--but the mistake that he and many others are making is trying to force his beliefs on everyone else. I believe same-sex couples enjoy the equal rights the US Constitution allows to them and that extends to marriage and having families. The difference between Lamontagne and me is that his beliefs, when forced on others, limit the rights of some. Mine allow the same rights for all. If NH really is the "live free or die" state, even those of you out there who don't like same sex marriage/families/etc. need to remember that the same constitution that allows you to express your beliefs and practice them allows everyone else equal rights, too.

Same old Republican bigot garbage.

Reject bigotry, fear and loathing 2012.

I am a member of Standing Up for Families and supported their efforts to stop the repeal of gay marriage. I don't agree with their characterization of Ovide's remarks as "attacking families". Obviously this group has been turned over to the fringe after the successful bipartisan effort last session.

Marriage between a man and woman has been around for what, a millenia? And the lefty comments here are saying that the right and conservatives are "social engineering" and "forcing ... beliefs"? It seems to me that the left, woke up, made up a term called "gay marriage", and proceeded to impose it on the rest of us. Those who resist and don't comply are bigots. Sorry, marriage has been around for centuries, gay marriage, gee, I dont' know, a decade or so. Once again, it's the left that's imposing it's views on the rest of us. I, for one, am not going to be bullied.

Reject the Race Baiting Democrat Party.

@Scott Morales, check your facts about marriage. It has not been around for "millenia". The word has it's origin in the 13th century. Those who really care about children and families realize these kind of comments hurt families and their children. Mr. Lamontange told a group of high school children's that marriage equality was not an issue in this race. It appears that it is now. Must be the NOM money that will assist him in his effort to take rights away from hard working, taxpaying families in NH.

The Constitution of the United States protects the rights of all citizens. I have not found an exception clause which spells out who get discriminated against. If you can find it show me some facts. Just like children do better with a mother and father. Show me the facts.

Once upon a time---"for millenia" people though and owned slaves. Very good families, with good family values thought it was the way life had always been--infact it was even in the Bible. When some people thought it was wrong to treat other people that way the "Good People" said change would destroy our civilization. Well anytime people try to change what has always be the norm for THEM they have a very hard time with it. People do not like change but thank goodness for those who might not fit in to the so call norm some "good and kind and just people" decided to make things better for ALL of God childrens. My marriage of 44 years is not hurt one little bit by gay marriage and I am glad that in this country our Consitution protects everyone. I am also glad that that the Lord is forgiving of how mean spirited some of his followeres are. I believe he said "what you do to the least of these, you have done unto me". If everyone would follow the "Golden Rule" we could get so much more done for the good of our country and all it's people.

It sure seems to me that Ovide should be working to enforce his "one man one woman, INTACT marriages for the benefit of the children" belief by abolishing divorce. Heterosexuals have a very bad history.

This is comical. People are offended because he said marriage between a man and a woman. Get a life. Reminds of the joke we always see at Christmas. Oh, sorry if I offended anyone by saying Christmas.
Any way, the joke....

To all my Democrat friends:

Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2012, but not without due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preference of the wishee.

To all my Republican friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

"To suggest that single parents, divorced parents or gay parents are inferior and hurt their children's chances to succeed in life is obscene."

As stated above, this is a factual matter and not an ideological one. As far as single parents and divorced parents are concerned: we know that having one parent, or having parents divorce, hurts children's chances to succeed in life. That does not mean we should go around shaming such parents, but a desire to be inclusive should not lead people to stick their heads in the sand. Unlike gay marriage, whose results are not yet knowable, single parenthood, divorced parenthood, and even step-parenthood are well known by social scientists to lead to generally worse results than two-parent families.

While I agree the safest emotional place for a child is in an intact, traditional family: people do not always adhere to that standard. Statistics show that girls of divorced parents are 2X more likely to suffer from depression and experience teenage pregnancy; that said, I happen to know and love many friends from all types of backgrounds, traditional, divorced, nice town, projects, single mom, gay parents...and the list goes on. What we need to do as a society is accept these innocent children for the wonderful possibilities they may be and stop judging their parents for the choices they have made...the two are separate...

Ovide Lamontagne is a right wing ideologue who isn't conservative so much as retrograde, in bed with anyone with deep pockets. But if he wants to campaign on his ideology then damn it he can. I think he'd be a horrible governor that would make us yearn for the stability and clear headed reasoning of Craig Bensen, but I want him to be hoist by his own petard. The more he talks, the more we know about him.

Josh, is he an "ideologue," or is he "in bed with anyone with deep pockets"? They're not really compatible charges.

RE: quote by Lamontagne: "the best chance a child has to succeed in life..........."
The best chance a child has to succeed in life is for them to grow up in a loving, caring family - it is up to each of us to define what "family" means. The biggest threat to a child's future is growing up in a family that supports domestic abuse, both physical and emotional. Life is challenging enough without having to withstand the criticism of those FEW who do not agree with the personal choices others have made. The energy wasted on judging how others make their way through life could be better used within the walls of their own homes.