From Last Year,Special Comment on Marriage Equality - Time To Watch It Again

[romantico]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 8:44am

My heart is hurting today.I feel so bad for my Gay and Lesbian brothers and sisters in Maine. I remember watching this last year and it somehow made me feel a little better and hopeful. I am hoping someone out there see's it and brings a small piece of optimism into their hearts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKfQ4LZ_svo

Updated On: 11/4/09 at 08:44 AM

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 9:12am

I remember watching that last year and having hope after what happened. I watch it again now and all I feel is anger. It's time for us to get mad. And I mean MAD. I am sick to death of other people deciding on what I can and can't do, I'm not in 3rd grade anymore. It's obvious that nothing is going to change at this point without making our voices heard. And by that I don't mean by getting the cast of HAIR down on Washington to sing and dance around.

[romantico]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:06am

I want to know what happened. As early as this past Monday they were confident marriage equality would be upheld.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:17am

What happened was the Catholic Church.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 10:44am

"We went up against tremendous odds," Marc Mutty, public affairs director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland who has been on loan to the campaign, said from Portland. "We all know we were the little guy going up against the big guy, but we prevailed. We prevailed because the people of Maine - the silent majority - the folks back home spoke with their votes.

"What they had to say," Mutty continued, "is marriage matters because it's between a man and a woman. [This campaign] has never been about hating gays, but about preserving marriage and only about preserving marriage, and that's what we did tonight."

The defenders of Maine's gay marriage law - which passed the Legislature in the spring but was never allowed to take effect - acknowledged being behind, but held out hope for a bump as the final votes and absentee ballots were counted.

In a defiant speech to several hundred lingering supporters, No on 1 campaign manager Jesse Connolly pledged that his side "will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives."

"We're not short-timers; we are here for the long haul," Connolly told the crowd, some of whom wiped away tears as he spoke. "Whether it's just all night and into the morning, or next week or next month or next year, we will be here. We'll be fighting, we'll be working. We will regroup."

The Yes on 1 campaign, led by the group Stand for Marriage Maine, built its lead by winning votes in rural Maine as well as in some larger towns such as the Roman Catholic and Franco-American stronghold of Lewiston.

In contrast, the effort to defend Maine's gay marriage law won strong support in places such as Portland, where 73 percent voted against Question 1, and majority support in Bangor.


Gay Marriage Repealed in Maine

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/4/09 at 11:12am

Mormons:California::Catholics:Maine

Tax that church indeed.

But you do have to thing about the progress made sometimes. Take Bangor, which went for equality. Remember Charlie Howard?