Posted on 11/03/2009 10:28:18 PM PST by icwhatudo
PORTLAND, Maine — Maine voters have torpedoed a state law that would have allowed gay couples to marry.
With 84 percent of the precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes had 53 percent of the vote Tuesday.
The outcome amounts to a heartbreaking defeat for the gay rights movement — particularly since it occurred in New England, the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage.
At issue was a law passed by the Maine Legislature last spring that would have legalized same-sex marriage. The law was put on hold after conservatives launched a petition drive to repeal it in a referendum.
Gay marriage has now lost in every single state — 31 in all — in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine.
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On to the pusuit!
Fire all the Legislators
Who voted for this...
Ultimately, this will come before the USSC.
I agree it will come before the court. I think the vote will be 5-4 the other way, based on the obvious ramifications leading to polygamy, bestiality, and so on.
I saw that too.
heartbreaking
HUH, the perverts think that by being turned on by the same sex is their right to get married just shows how mentally messed up they are
NOT ONE MENTION IN THE MSM!!!
a huge win for the conservative wave.
Where is Beck?
WHERE IS RUSH?
Why do they shy away from reporting on marriage?
Not even a peep from FNC. (seriously Shep Smith on election night?)
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