Good As You

HRC should be ashamed for not being more involved in the No on 1 campaign. More money should have been given by HRC to No on 1 and they should have sent more people there to help out with the campaign. And has HRC come out to criticize the Obama administration for not directly talking about Maine in his speech at HRC? Of course not.

Brian Brown. What a tool.

I'm getting tired of these nut jobs always making our efforts sound futile. Honestly, it only makes me commit more to this fight. I've seen the polls. Our support is growing but its not in the majority yet. Plus, this was an off year election. I'd like to see how the other half of Maine feels about same sex marriage in 2012 when there is presidential election. Its hard work trying to convince people vote on a off-year election when there is no candidate. We all have busy lives.

Don't they realize that the legislature can always pass the bill again? And that the chance of the legislature would put a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage is never gonna happen in that state, thanks to their "live and let live" attitude.

I hope they enjoy their victory FOR NOW. This vote only shows how close we are to winning. We rework our strategy and reach out more in Maine. As long as that state has the option of a "People's Veto," reaching out is the only way we are going to win in that state.

BTW. I want to give a big shout out to Washington state. The way it looks, you guys on the Approve 71 are going to win and I'm glad that the electorate voted in favor of the expansion of the domestic partnerships law. It just shows that we are making progress in this country and we just need to keep pushing and reaching out.

Straight men don't spend so much time fretting about gays getting married.

I always feel extremists such as these need to go find a job. They need to actually contribute to society instead of trying to stop society from evolving

Seriously, get a life. You cannot have mine.

It's funny to see this email while they are patting themselves on the back for their "work" in Maine and praising Shubert/Flint for their "brilliance." In reality, it doesn't take much work and/or brilliance to simply ignite homophobia and demonize a small percentage of the population.

It is gratifying to learn that their woefully wicked attacks against us are driving them into the poor house! The Maine Catholics will probably be declaring bankruptcy soon to avoid paying any more settlements in their kid fucking scandals, so maybe they won't be a problem the next time either.

I did a little research, and in Maine in 1998, a people's veto managed to veto the addition of sexual orientation to the state's anti-discrimination statute. A very similar act was approved by the legislature in 2005, and a people's veto qualified for the ballot, but was unsuccessful, and sexual orientation was added to the anti-discrimination statute. It was seven years later, but the voters of Maine did eventually do the right thing. Interestingly, more people voted in favor of the veto in 2005 than in 1998. But the huge groundswell of votes on the ratify side dwarfed the turnout of veto votes. In a presidential election year, the result of Question 1 might have been very different.

Make me glad I live in RI where you only have to convince 72 legislators to make progress and we the people have no recourse.

If only we could get the marriage equality bill passed.

I hope the Maine Ethics Commission sees this latest plea from Brian. His reference to an $8 million dollar projected budget is obviously hogwash if spending $1.8 million somehow depleted NOM's coffers. Not to mention that Brian previously swore to the commission that NOM's 2009 projected budget was $7 million, not $8 million.

It's November, Brian. Either you've raised the bulk of that $7 or $8 million by now, or you haven't. And if you haven't, that would mean that your Maine expenditures represented a substantial portion of your crew's activities this year. The implications of that are clear under Maine law.