Tag Archives: Maine

Next May, activists in Maine will echo 1965’s Selma to Montgomery marches when they “meet in the middle for equality” in a march from Portland to Augusta. A similar event took place in March of this year when activists marched to Fresno, California in anticipation on that state’s Supreme Court ruling on Prop 8. The Facebook page for Maine’s 2010 …

The National Institute on Money in State Politics has sent us the above breakdown of the groups and amounts funding both sides of Maine’s Question 1. The losing No On 1 side outspent the bigots by 68%, but to no avail. Proponents The committees that supported Question 1 got their funding almost entirely from churches and conservative Christian organizations and …

And now the forces of darkness turn their hate-filled piggy little eyes to New Hampshire. Two proposals are being drafted in the N.H. House: One would repeal the law Gov. John Lynch signed in June and re-establish civil unions; the other is a constitutional amendment that would charge voters with deciding if “the state shall only recognize the union of …

Archdiocese of Portland employee and Stand For Marriage spokesdouche Marc Mutty says the vote in Maine “had nothing to do with hate.” Dan Savage: “It definitely had everything to do with hate. The Yes On One campaign trafficked in vicious anti-gay stereotypes throughout the entire campaign. Their whole campaign was premised upon the notion that allowing same-sex couples to legally …

“During the campaign I made a practice of stopping at homes where Yes on 1 signs were posted and performed a small act of ‘bearing witness.’ I would ring the doorbell, excuse the interruption, and make the point that I wanted to see what a voter in contemporary America looked like who would publicly announce that they thought neither my …

Bishop Harry Jackson is known to DC residents as the charlatan carpetbagger who fraudulently listed himself as a DC voter in order to interfere with marriage equality there, even though he actually lives in Maryland.

Family Research Council executive doucherectum Tony Perkins went up against Freedom To Marry’s Evan Wolfson on CNN last night, where Perkins claimed that Maine’s result will cause other states such as New Jersey to back off any plans for marriage equality. Evan Wolfson is as well-spoken as always, calling out Perkins’ lies.

Marriage rallies in honor of Maine and in support of local campaigns will be held at 5:30PM today in Washington DC’s Dupont Circle and NYC’s Union Square. Organizers, please drop your Facebook pages into the comments.

The Christian Broadcast Network devoted the first ten minutes of this morning’s show to yesterday’s LGBT rights battles in Maine and Washington state, with one George Costanza lookalike warning that the vote in Maine should serve as notice to legislators that other silly liberal ideas such as health care reform will not be tolerated. (Via – Good As You)

Calling it “gay apartheid,” activist David Mixner is mighty pissed at the Democratic National Committee and the Obama administration for sitting on their hands during the Maine and Washington state battles. An excerpt from today’s column (which bears reading in full): President Obama standing on the sidelines in Maine and Washington was appalling. The failure of our national organizations and …

“You can’t put a civil rights issue on the ballot and let the people decide. You have to have elected officials to who have courage to make the right decision. If you left it up to the people, we’d have slavery, depending on how you worded it.” – Former Minnesota governor and pro wrestler Jesse Ventura, responding to Maine’s vote …

“Tonight, hundreds of thousands of Maine voters stood for equality, but in the end, it wasn’t enough. I am proud of the thousands of Mainers who knocked on doors, made phone calls and talked to their family, friends and neighbors about the basic premise of treating all Maine families equally. And I’m proud of this campaign because the stories we …

Thanks to everybody who dropped in and who stayed with me for the past seven hours. Despite Maine, it was in general a fantastic night for LGBT politics, with great results seen in Kalamazoo, Chapel Hill, Detroit, Houston, and in Washington state, where Approve 71 continues to lead, with a final result possibly not coming for a few days. Let’s …

Maine’s polling places are busier than forecast today, lending hope to the No On 1 side, who are depending on a strong turnout to win. Maine’s Secretary of State says that the turnout could exceed his prediction of 35% of eligible voters, provided midday volumes hold through the day. My gut is in knots.

Yesterday’s “red alert” from No On 1 yielded another $68K for last minute ads. Below, campaign head Jesse Connelly sends his appreciation.

I’ll be live-blogging election results this evening. In the meantime use this space to talk about your experiences at the polls today. Mainers, New Yorkers, Washington state residents – we want to hear from you in particular. Kalamazoomians (?) too! Drop in any links to exit polls, please. UPDATE: I left off Houston, where open lesbian Anise Parker is running …

Maine’s No On 1 team has issued the following alert seeking volunteers who can get up there tonight or tomorrow. The “Drive for Equality” hotel in South Portland still has space available, and the staging locations still need volunteers. We’re trying to entice Boston and NH people to make last-minute spur- of-the-moment decisions to come up here. So the word …

From Craigslist’s Maine Rants & Raves board: Who the fuck do you radical faggot asswipes think you’re intimidating with all this NO on one bullshit? Do you really think you will change the way we’re going to vote with threats? Our Govenor is on your side? Good! Take that fucking sneaky aids-stricken weasel with you when we run your faggot …

Statistics whiz kid Nate Silver is calling Maine’s Yes On 1 a 5-2 underdog in tomorrow’s vote. The Odds: A statistical analysis I conducted last month, which was based on the results from previous gay marriage referenda in other states, gave the Yes on 1 side just an 11 percent chance of prevailing, although the fraction rises to 32 percent …

Cross your fingers kids, Tuesday will be a nail biter.