Tag Archives: Maine

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From the Bangor Daily News: Permitting gay couples to marry will uphold equal treatment required by the U.S. Constitution, promote family values and protect religious beliefs. The ballot initiative is a matter of fairness and, in the end, care for one another.  It’s a matter of equality. Partners raising their children together should both be able to make medical decisions …

Two sets of lies boiled down into quick TV spots.

Two weeks ago Bloomberg also gave $250K to Maryland’s campaign.

The Human Rights Campaign on NOM’s bigotry mastermind: Public filings show that he has netted nearly $3 million this year for his work in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, and Washington State. The profits go to Schubert’s company, Mission Public Affairs.  Schubert collected $958,594 for his anti-equality work in North Carolina earlier this year. In the four marriage ballot states, …

A straight wedding photographer explains, “They don’t understand that discrimination is already illegal.”

From Maine’s Kennebec Journal: Protect Marriage Maine, the coalition opposing same-sex marriage, bases this ad in part on an interpretation of a state law passed in 2004 to allow gay couples to register as domestic partners. The ad says the law allowed rights that married couples have in “virtually all” circumstances. “Virtually all” should come with a pretty high standard. …

TheFour has launched a moneybomb for marriage equality: It’s 25 days until the election. Give $25 today to support marriage equality in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington. It’s #25out25in. This is crunch time for any campaign. Just a few weeks out, and our opponents are giving it everything they’ve got. Their lies are already showing up on television in Washington …

The Human Rights Campaign has committed another $1 million to the marriage equality campaigns in the four contested states. There is no doubt 2012 is the year of marriage and HRC is committed to making marriage equality the law of the land in Maine, Maryland, and Washington state, and to defeating the discriminatory anti-marriage amendment in Minnesota. Today we are …

Watch as Matt Baume rips apart the lies.

Via press release from Mainers United: In a campaign finance report filed Thursday with the Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices, NOM reported raising and spending more than $250,000 to influence Question 1 on the November ballot. Question 1 would allow same-sex couples to receive a marriage license from the state while protecting religious freedom. In a practice …

(Via Scott Wooledge)

“While we are disappointed that the US Supreme Court did not grant review in our challenge to Maine’s application of campaign finance law in 2009, we will be reviewing the state’s requests in light of the ruling.  In their briefs before the US Supreme Court, the state appeared to have substantially narrowed the type of information they were requesting from …

This is the first in a four-part series highlighting the states voting on same-sex marriage next month.

Disappointingly, this clip does not include any dramatic staged attacks from homofascists, just a broken egg on the sidewalk. But apparently truckers love loons with bagpipes.

The Morning Sentinel reports that a new poll shows Maine’s marriage equality ballot measure is leading by 21 points. No one expects the 21-point lead to last, however. Maine has proven to be narrowly divided on gay marriage in past elections. Even with a strong lead, the issue is clearly dividing Maine voters along partisan, social and economic lines. The …