Gay Rights Ban Is Losing In Maine!

Results link:

http://www.mainetoday.com/elections/_2005/


Keep your fingers crossed. If this loses, it's a big victory for justice and liberty.

And a big loss for the Christian right.

Wanna take bets as to whether the media will cover this as much as they do Texas?

Voting NO means you support the anti-discrimination law

OOps, misread your post.

It's looking good so far

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of difference to their lives or marriages or to who attends their churches or get married in them.

It doesn't affect the Christian right at all. I see banks on the street corners of every small town in America - and no bibles have set themselves on fire! Why is it when it is a wrong in the New Testament but usefull for religious people - it gets a pass?

in the strategic sense. They can't get a foothold in the ENTIRE region of the Northeast. And their numbers are dwindling in every election.

Their attempts to subvert New England hence grow feebler and feebler and they will eventually stop trying.

They whine about persecution and a "gay agenda"; like orgies will suddenly break out in elementary schools if gays have any rights.

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"gave their lives" for entertainment & a sense of victory.

Great state!

and anything else I can cross.

Justice and Liberty.

Compare the voters in Maine with those in Texas.

jobs, housing, and public accomodations just because they're gay? And they call themselves Christians? :mad:

Wohoo! Of course, gay rights isn't quite the same thing in people's minds as gay marriage. Gay marriage ban passed in Oregon, but none of the other gay bashing initiatives have ever passed.

You did your part in TX and fought the good fought and now you and hubby can come up to Maine next summer and eat lobster for a week to reward yourselves. :)

Been fighting that fight for years now. We tried to get civil unions and gay rights this year and it had strong support. We've got a shit of a Republican house leader who has just fucked up everything this year, including that bill. Sucks. I think it's so stupid. An old geezer called me last year about the gay marriage ban. I tried to explain it wouldn't change anything, it wasn't authorizing gay marriage if it didn't pass. It would just keep that kind of discrimination out of our constitution. He said he just didn't want all the "fags" in the country pouring into Oregon. I got irate and told him he was just too stupid to talk to and hung up on him. Ugh.

Anyway, trade ya' some yummy Oregon oysters for some yummy Maine lobster!!

:)

confused you with seabeyond who was griping earlier about the TX amendment.

My bad.

And I love oysters. I'll come right over. :)

The Repukes are taking a massive one on the chin.

This Californian just saw the Texas results - very sad.

Isn't this 'gain' just the inability of the RW to repeal a non-discrimination law that was already resolved? Do we now get excited when they don't repeal what we fought for last year?

It ain't even close

I go there every summer for vacation; it's beautiful and full of wonderful people...even around Kennebunk

Show the nation that you believe in equality for all - you rock!

Keep praying!

Maine Votes NO!

I think all of this is ridiculous. The first amendment should be honored for all citizen's. Ugh.