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"Maine voters overturn state’s new same-sex marriage law" by Maria Sacchetti, Globe Staff | November 4, 2009
PORTLAND, Maine - Maine voters overturned the state’s same-sex marriage law yesterday, delivering a potentially crushing blow to gay-rights advocates after a year when their cause seemed to be gaining momentum with legislative and legal victories in four states.
As the ballot counting continued well past midnight, the margin continued to grow - with 52.7 percent of voters in favor of the repeal - and the Associated Press called the contest in favor of gay-marriage foes shortly before 1 a.m.
The “people’s veto’’ came six months after Maine’s law was approved, and one year after California voters rejected gay marriage by a similar margin.... Mary Conroy, spokeswoman for Yes on 1/Stand for Marriage Maine, the organization leading the fight against same-sex marriage in Maine. “I feel energized, overcome, overjoyed for the family and the people of Maine. “Clearly, this tonight is the people of Maine speaking.’’
Gay marriage advocates, who gathered in a ballroom at a Portland hotel, spent much of the evening dancing and cheering, but grew more subdued as the hours passed and the votes favoring a repeal of the gay-marriage law pulled steadily ahead....
No on 1 campaign manager Jesse Connolly vowed to continue counting votes into this morning, but even he seemed to concede that they had lost this battle:
“We’re not short timers. We’re in for the long haul. We will regroup. This is about love and commitment and family, and so we’ll stay the course. And I ask you to stay the course with us.’’
“What is it about democracy that these groups don’t understand?’’
With the news, supporters of gay marriage dissolved into tears....
Susan McCray and Yvette Pratt, had married in Massachusetts, but every time they crossed the border back into Maine, where they live, their marriage was no longer recognized. “We thought we had it,’’ McCray said, holding Pratt’s hand. As they walked out, a woman called to them, “It’s not over.’’
“What is it about democracy that these groups don’t understand?’’
And I THOUGHT we HAD IT when we "elected" Obama and that "change" would mean an END to the MASS-MURDERING WARS based on lies!
Yeah, DISAPPOINTMENT is a REAL DRAG!
Gay marriage supporters, who had cast the question as a classic civil rights struggle....
WRONG!
"The civil rights once denied to black Americans included the right to register as a voter, the right to cast a ballot, the right to use numerous public facilities, the right to get a fair hearing in court, the right to send their children to an integrated public school, and the right to equal opportunity in housing and employment. Have gay people been denied any of these rights? Have they been forced to sit in the back of buses? Confined to segregated neighborhoods? Barred from serving on juries? Subjected to systematic economic exploitation?" --source--"
Btw, if gays have a complaint, why don't you take it to the BLACK CHURCHES? From what I heard, they voted 70-30 FOR the BAN!!! How come the gay rights folks only have it in for the Mormons? Or why don't you go after Hispanics, who voted FOR the ban by 53-47? In fact, one wonders HOW the VOTE could have been so CLOSE -- although one does not wonder long in the land of rigged elections.
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So TOP WEARING BLACK-FACE, gays!!!
Maine has struggled with gay rights in the past. In 1998 and in 2000, lawmakers voted to ban discrimination against gays and lesbians but voters narrowly struck down those laws. The law was ultimately approved in 2005.
“What is it about democracy that these groups don’t understand?’’
Conroy said most of the Stand for Marriage supporters are ordinary families who are worried that children will read stories about same-sex couples in schools, that teenagers will be encouraged to experiment with their sexuality, and that same-sex marriage will become widespread. She said that gays and lesbians have won antidiscrimination protections and should “leave marriage alone.’’ “No one’s antigay,’’ she said. “It’s just whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. . . . Not so fast.’’
Gay and lesbian families say the Stand for Marriage ads recall the discrimination of the civil rights era.
STOP IT!
Maine state Senator Lawrence Bliss, a father of three who married his partner in California when same-sex marriage was fleetingly legal, said he believed that Maine’s live-and-let-live values would prevail.
“What is it about democracy that these groups don’t understand?’’
Dozens of Massachusetts residents poured into Maine in recent days to share their stories of how same-sex marriage has unfolded and what Maine might expect if voters preserved it.
“What is it about democracy that these groups don’t understand?’’
OUTSIDERS COMING IN is a BAD IDEA, huh?
Holly Gunner, a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, said same-sex marriage has become “ordinary’’ in Massachusetts.
Yeah, and LET'S KEEP IT HERE so we get the GAY MARRIAGE LOOT!
If you legalize everywhere then GAYS WILL STAY HOME and NOT COME HERE and SPEND THEIR TOURISM DOLLAR!!!!
Thank you, Maine!
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Btw, HOW DID THOSE OTHER VOTES GO, Globe?
Related: Around New England: Remember Maine!
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Globe?
They must have PASSED!!!!!!!
