Yahoo! News - Missouri Dumps Governor, Bans Gay Marriage
Missouri voters also made their state the first in the United States to approve a state constitutional amendment banning gay marriage since a Massachusetts court decision last year set the stage for challenges to such unions.

Missouri, like 39 other states, already has a law that refuses to recognize same-sex marriages, but proponents of the constitutional ban said the amendment would prevent courts from following the lead of the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which ruled last year homosexuals had the right to wed.

At least nine other states are planning similar votes on proposed constitutional amendments later this year, and four states already have similarly worded amendments.

Cross Missouri off the list of places to visit, I guess. This is a bad sign for the fall proposals in other states, including my own.

Makes me very ashamed of my nation.