"Christian Civic League of Maine" drops anti-gay initiative due to LACK OF INTEREST!

AUGUSTA, Maine—An initiative campaign to repeal Maine's gay rights law and put in place roadblocks to gay marriages and adoptions is being abandoned, leaders of the campaign said Thursday.

"We're pulling the plug," said Michael Heath, executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine. Heath said the evangelical group failed to attract voter, volunteer and financial support it needed to continue its campaign.

The group collected only a third of the 15,000 voters' signatures it had set as a goal for primary election day June 10, said Heath. He added said that potential volunteers "don't want to be aligned with bigotry and homophobia and hatred," tags their opponents had applied to the initiative backers.

EqualityMaine, which had placed volunteers at the polls June 10 to discourage voters to sign the initiative ballots, welcomed Thursday's decision. "This was a really broad attack on gays and lesbians and their families," said Betsy Smith, executive director of EqualityMaine. "Mainers are generally fair-minded and I think they sent a strong message on primary day."...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/maine/articles/2008/06/19/maine_group_drops_anti_gay_rights_push/

...which doesn't include bigotry or a microphone :)

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Woooohoooo!:bounce: Looks like a trend in many places. (Others not so much-yet)

Great news!

And that's a great pic too, BTW...

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GOOD!

I hope their next move is to close down for good.

Ayup!

:woohoo: :woohoo:

About Time those hatefilled, evangelical, thumpers lose......:woohoo:
:hi:

and it's about TIME!

Good on my neighbas-

peace~

"wicked good, Mainers."

"lack of interest" Sweet.

One is sick, and the other refuses to march alone.. :rofl:

Nah. Her mother hadn't given birth to her yet.

for too many people. They're on outrage overload. Another year or two and the loudmouthed wackjobs will have to STFU or face being marginalized in their own communities as the dangerous crackpots the rest of know them to be.

Like most Republicans, I expect the moderate Christians want their religion back. Xianity is dying the slow and torturous death it deserves. Somebody please deliver a merciful head shot so we can all move on.

Sure, it's a dream that involves prejudice, discrimination, fear and blind, idiotic loathing...

but it's still someone's DREAM, dammit!

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The sooner these bigots are taught how completely inane and worthless their little 'cause' is the better. They are as irrelevant as the Dixiecrats and they must either change their ways or be thrown on the ash-heap of history with all the other bigots and nasties.