The Fierce Urgency of Maine - Vote No on 1/Protect Maine Equality

Originally published by Michael Jones on Change.org

This year will be remembered as the year of same-sex marriage, with four states enacting marriage equality already in 2009. But if conservative activists succeed in repealing Maine's same-sex marriage law this November, 2009 could be remembered as the year that the momentum for marriage equality stalled. And we can't let that happen. >



< Already, groups wanting to take back marriage equality have raised substantial amounts of money - although most of it comes from a small group of donors/organizations who don't even live in Maine. The Catholic Church has promised that they will give up to $2 million to take back the rights of gays and lesbians to marry. And the public relations group that ran California's Proposition 8 campaign have been hired by anti-LGBT organizers in Maine to lead the charge against marriage equality there.

For our side, there are important steps we need to take now to win this campaign. First, early money matters. If you can give $5.00, $10.00, $20.00, $50.00, or whatever to help preserve marriage equality, please consider doing so now (via Act Blue). Second, talk to your friends (or friends of friends) who live in Maine. Third, consider traveling up to Maine for what marriage equality organizers are calling "volunteer vacations." Maine is one of the most beautiful states in the country during the Fall season.

Why not spend some time up there vacationing and working for the rights of gays and lesbians?

Early voting in Maine starts in October, which means that we have less than two months to prepare for a Get-Out-The-Vote campaign that rocks the house. Sure, we didn't ask for marriage equality to be put on the ballot in Maine. But now that it's there, we have to work like hell to preserve marriage equality. Both for gays and lesbians in Maine, but for those pushing for marriage equality throughout the country.


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