Good As You: Maine Roundup
07/15/2010
Video: Come for the light houses, stay for unneccesarily rocked boat
An official NOM production: "The way life should be": Lived by a faith-based, heteorsexist rule book that rolls back the civil rights of anyone who doesn't fit neatly into it. We just wish they would have zoomed in on the...07/14/2010
Book crude event, get a cruel sign
This is the first report we've heard from today's Augusta, ME, National Organization for Marriage rally: About 100 people attended the rally, and a few held signs. One sign said "Is it loving to bring children into a destructive lifestyle?"...07/13/2010
Charla, Bans, ME: 'The teacher' on summer rights-vacation
During last year's National Organization for Marriage-fueled "Yes on 1" campaign, the anti-gay side was all about putting Charla Bansley on television, identified as nothing more than a local teacher, for the purposes of drumming fear of what marriage equality...06/29/2010
Refine your arguments: Maine 'values' group can't cap their diarrhea mouths
This writer doesn't even eat animals, much less kill them with my toxic ooze. But according to the Maine Family Policy Council, my loving, legal marriage is something that's fit to be likened to the oil that's quickly robbing the...06/08/2010
NOM's Maine donors: Court pulls cards even further from Brian Brown's chest
Another loss for NOM. Yet another court has ruled that they must let the state of Maine know the particular wells from whence their considerable "Yes on 1" cash came: A federal appeals court in Boston has ordered the National...06/02/2010
Video: Can 'Philip Spooner: The Opera' be far behind?
Remember Philip Spooner, the Maine veteran whose testimony in favor of marriage equality became a sort of rally cry during last fall's Question One fight? Yea? Well good, because now, a composer by the name of Melissa Dunphy has put...05/25/2010
NOMinal recompense: Largest 'Yes on 1' donor closer to opening books
Where'd NOM get all that cash to roll back our civil equality in Maine? We may get some answers soon enough: U.S. Magistrate Judge John Rich III said in a document dated Sunday that the National Organization for Marriage, which...04/28/2010
Show me your fits: Heath who wishes to best us, now breasts us
This Friday in Farmington, ME, there will be a "Topless March for Gender Equity," which, according to organizers, is meant to (a) highlight the fact that it's not illegal to go topless in the state of Maine, and (b) to...04/26/2010
Today in Maine: A future November's anti-equality field workers will be recruited
-In multiple videos on his public YouTube page, Pastor Bob Emrich supports "ex-gay" therapy. So of course Maine's anti-marriage 'yes on 1" campaign selected him to co-head the campaign. -Family Research Council head Tony Perkins, when he's not busy telling...04/19/2010
Focus on the Family's ME outpost: Gay tolerance will destroy America, just like it did the World Trade Center
This from the Maine Family Policy Council (an official Focus on the Family affiliate for the past 19 years): The cry of our day is, There's nothing wrong with being gay. What they do is their business. I don’t see...04/14/2010
ME: Heath to give it gubernatorial goal; Me: 'Are you frickin' serious?!? '
He was seen as too extreme for Maine's "Yes on 1" campaign, with that anti-gay referendum's organizers taking great strides to keep him out of the picture. But now Mike Heath will be the one calling the shots, as the...04/12/2010
Uhm, Mr. Mendell, I came for college advice, not to hear about my lesbian mother's eternal future
You might remember Donald Mendell, the guidance counselor from Maine's Nokomis Regional High School who chose to inject himself into his state's gay rights debate. In a 12/01/08 letter to the Bangor Daily News, he referred to marriage equality as...03/28/2010
Mike Heath: Too contentious for Question One, perfect for 'One News Now'
Mike Heath is one of the most incendiary figures to ever grace the "culture war" landscape. The former Christian Civic League of Maine/ Maine Family Policy Council head is in the Brian Camenker/Peter LaBarbera wing of the "pro-family" movement, but...03/26/2010
So you see, Maine gays, you lost last November because you are 'moral trash'
And speaking of ridiculous "slippery slope" arguments: This charming piece comes from the Christian Civic League of Maine/Maine Family Policy Council. Penned by a reverend, no less: The logical pathway of this insanity naturally leads to the legal marriage between...03/24/2010
Take that, you uppity homeless folk!
You might remember that Portland, Maine's Bishop Richard Malone was one of the biggest opponents of marriage equality during Maine's Question One fight. He met with Maggie Gallagher and company early in the game, and strategized, financed, rallied, and advocated...12/21/2009
Stand For Marriage Maine: The gift that keeps on giving (us agita)
Two weeks ago, Bob Emrich was in the news for promoting a Ugandan article that itself supported the country's proposed "kill/imprison gays bill." This week, he's back with his old partner in Maine bias, Marc Mutty, fundraising for the cause...11/23/2009
Gays, Gap, and 'Whateveryouwannakah': All euphemisms for evil, say anti-gay Mainers
By now you've surely seen this Gap ad: You might find it catchy or you might find it wretched. But either way, did you know that the ad is actually filled with withcraft and evil? The same kind of evil...11/13/2009
Marry ME: The 'One' that got away
Impressive. Beautiful. Heartbreaking: New Left Media'Question 1 opponents': The far-right's newest faux monolith
Maine Marriage Equality is a website started up by college student Adam "Sunny" Flanders. During the Question One campaign, the site provided a steady stream of information about the fight to preserve marriage equality. Now that the anti-gay side has...11/09/2009
Maine. September, 1917
The Pine Tree state legislature had enacted a bill granting women the right to vote, throwing their strong support behind the measure. But first, the matter had to be ratified at the polls, putting a minority's right was put to...Video: There'll come a November when we can stay inside. This one ain't it
Gay Marriage Supporters Protest Church [Fox 23] Last year I spent most of the holiday season sick, I believe from the constant marching and chanting in the face of both cold weather and cold bias. But hey, as long as...Accurate assessments of LGBTs worth? Not so much. But as for Linda's ability to assess fallacious campaigns? Well...
One of the things that infuriated us the most about the Stand For Marriage Maine coalition that recently duped Mainers into adopting bias is that behind the typical surface that Shubert-Flint advises these kinds of anti-equality campaigns to adopt in...11/06/2009
Lessons from a solid campaign
We did so much right in Maine that it's hard to fault specifics about the campaign. But after committing so much time to this particular fight, I do come away with a few personal takeaways. Consider: The schools issue: It...11/05/2009
Audio: Weird, why didn't they call us 'the enemy' in their official ads?
During the campaign, she was simply a "teacher": Now Charla's back in her real, always-was role: Campaign worker who fallaciously hid her affiliations (and the fact that she teaches as a small, private, Christian school), likely because the "yes" campaign...Video: Gee, with logic this sound, it's no wonder we lost
Thanks so much, Maine majority!Take that, Maine soup kitchens!
$115,266: That's the grand total of Focus on the Family's donations to Maine to combat equality: Focus donates $115,266 to Maine gay marriage fight [AP via Boston Globe] Just one of the many hundreds of thousands of dollars that the...Maine: You were duped
Maine's longtime anti-gay leader, Mike Heath, is revealing some very interesting points in his latest blog post. For one, he confirms exactly what we told you for many months, which is that even though his ties with them run deep,...11/04/2009
I think what infuriates me the most...
...is that our opposition will never realize, admit, or take responsibility for the gut-wrenching sense of de-humanity that they inflict upon us. Had Maine's "yes on 1" side lost last night, each and every one of the folks invested in...Charla takes off 'everyday citizen' mask, puts on press-released spokesperson hat
We of course knew that Charla Bansley is much more than a mere school teacher. And now that the anti-gay forces no longer need to scare voters with the TV spot into which they disingenuously cast her, they too can...Remember when Bishops found 'good sermon' to be enough of a thank you?
There is something wrong with America when a faith-based organization who bankrolled a campaign to rollback legislatively enacted CIVIL rights includes a line like this in their post-election political press release: Bishop Richard Malone of the Diocese of Portland provided...Nobody on our side wants millions of people to deexist!
A majority of Mainers voted to embolden this: "stop the homosexualist political movement" "Surely we don't want to build a society where our children and grandchildren are encouraged to invent new perversions to avoid boredom" "The path to sanity is...Video: Recipe for a "traditional marriage" victory:
Start with the idea that civil rights should be put to majority vote Add copious amounts of NOM money. Stir in every last ounce of personal faith you can find (regardless of if you're working in a civil kitchen) Sprinkle...Some Mainers who voted against your 'whacky oversexed version of progress'
Congratulations, gay Mainers. You have lost your equal citizenship to this: Stand for Marriage Maine [Facebook] "Sign a petition to end this foolishness." That's truly what they think of us, that a pull of a lever or a move of...We go to bed more hurt, more unequal, more hated, more harassed, more dehumanized. Sleep well.
They lied. They dehumanized. They used personal faith to address civil law. They sought out any and every opportunity to confuse the issue. They went after anyone who got in their paths, with zero to less-than-zero regard for the well-being...11/03/2009
Live from the Portland Holiday Inn, it's Maine's night to make history grave historical error
7:21PM: Cautious optimism in the Maine party room. Bloggers a'bloggin'. Staffers a nail-bitin'. Jeremy on first glass of Merlot. 7:36PM: Rex Wockner has a shot of the bloggers table, as well as his own live coverage. 7:44PM: Bangor Daily News...
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