Good As You: Question One Roundup
11/07/2011
'Question One': Any answers?
Leslie Nicoll was a great friend to the fight to preserve equality in Maine, and has been a great friend to this site specifically. Both that fight and this site go in indefinitely. As we continue our quest to regain...
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04/25/2011
Marc Mutty all like, 'No -- by 'dangerous' and 'hyperbole' and 'not completely accurate' I meant 'AWESOME!''
Remember those clips from the forthcoming Question 1 documentary wherein Marc Mutty, the director of Maine's "Yes on One" campaign, pretty much admitted that his side's ads were disingenuous, at best? Yea, well: Mutty has now broken his silence. But...
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04/19/2011
Video: Maine's head rights-depriver: 'I think we use hyperbole to a point where, you know, it's like 'Gee-eez!''
In February, we showed you a clip from "Question One: The Movie," a documentary covering Maine's 2009 marriage equality/inequality fight. A clip that seriously opened a wound or two for those of us who lived that battle. But if that...
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02/28/2011
Video: When Maine's self-appointed 'marriage protectors' gained nothing, hurt many
As we gear up for a potential ballot fight in Maryland, we have no choice but to learn from what's already happened. As gut-wrenching as it may be: Question One from Fly On The Wall Productions on Vimeo. Question One:...
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11/09/2009
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...
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11/04/2009
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...
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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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Zero to zero. Tied. Equal. That's the picture in Maine right now, as of 3PM EST. But in a few short hours, that will all change. For those of us on the side of fairness, our right to remain equal...
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Video: Joe trades suit for sweater; hopes Maine trades sick for sweeter
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy **Another MSNBC report, capturing the palpable spirit that is filling the Pine Tree state today:
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The true iniquity behind a 'yes on 1' vote
Need more reason to volunteer for a Maine Get Out the Vote shift, or to get on the phone from wherever you are and place a few GOTV calls? Well just look at this nugget from our Maine opposition: The...
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11/02/2009
Video: Twas the night before [another day where gay lives are put to offensive vote]
Help us win: Protect Maine Equality -- NO ON ONE! P.S. A bird pooped on me while I was recording this footage. No, I'm not joking. Thankfully the lovely Jenna Lowenstein was there to lend a hand while I dug...
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Audio: Joe on Mike on Maine
Michelangelo Signorile had AmericaBlog's Joe Sudbay on his Sirius/XM show this afternoon, to talk about Maine, the razor thin polls that divide the tantalizing possiiblity of right from the nauseating prospect of wrong, and the need for every last Pine...
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No on one, yes on rallies
**UPDATE: And now we bring you video.
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11/01/2009
Maine's Question One: War on gay existences not limited to ring fingers!
Just a reminder, because it can't be said enough: Maine's Pastor Bob Emrich supports "ex-gay" therapy. The same Bob Emrich who was just today cited by Bangor Daily News as the "leader of the Yes on 1 campaign to overturn...
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10/30/2009
Smear v. 'Clear': 'No on 1' closes deal
NO ON 1!
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Video: DPs: They were against them before they were [secretly still against] them
Having followed national LGBT goings-on for the past several years, we were beyond shocked when we heard Stand For Marriage Maine acting as if they are totally cool with domestic partnerships, just as long as the word "marriage" is not...
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Video: If I Am Idle, this Am. Idol audition will prevail
The harmony is nice. But as for the disharmony they wish to cause our lives? Not so much: I Say Yes On 1 [YT]
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10/29/2009
It's 'NO' time
Protect Maine Equality -- NO ON 1! ***SEE ALSO: Compare our thoroughly positive ad with their latest.
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Video: And by 'it's,' they mean lies and bigotry
0:00-0:04: Very fitting that they start with the Washington Times, considering the Rev. Moon-owned paper is considered the most far-right, conservatively biased news outlet in the nation. But okay, whatever. They're "accusing" us of wanting marriage equality in New England....
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10/28/2009
Camenker, LaBarbera, Madore: They came, they saw, they bore out the 'Yes on 1' connections
The "No on 1" campaign's Jesse Connolly is back from today's "yes on 1" press conference featuring Brian Camenker, Paul Madore, and Peter LaBarbera, and he's in no mood to mince words: "This is not the new face of the...
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Stand For Marriage Maine has damaged their state with lies. It'll take time to fix.
Check out this landing page that's being used to scare visitors to the StandForMarriageMaine site: Okay, let's break this bullcrappy down: 1) We're not sure if the teacher is supposed to be a pro-gay "indoctrinator," or simply a teacher. But...
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10/25/2009
Yes on 1's largest donor: An examination (Complete Set)
Volume 1: Unhinged billboard campaign Volume 2: Oversimplified reduction of pro-gay comments Volume 3: Ridiculous Vaclav Havel/Soviet empire comparisons Volume 4: NOM board member wants to overthrow pro-gay governments Volume 5: NOM's general counsel = quite extremist Volume 6: Heated...
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10/24/2009
Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 13)
A "grassfire [that] would spread across America!" That is the way that former U.S. Senator Rick "man on dog sex" Santorum reduced and condemned same-sex unions in a recent pitch letter that he penned for the National Organization For Marriage:...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 11)
This comes verbatim from page 54 of the Iowa marriage ruling: Promotion of optimal environment to raise children. Another governmental objective proffered by the County is the promotion of “child rearing by a father and a mother in a marital...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 9)
National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher, from a Catholic radio program: *Source: Catholic Answers Live -- 6/30/08 Are you going to let canon law put a cannon to Maine's civil law? $1.1 million of the $1.4 million raised by Stand...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 8)
All of these quotes come from the National Organization For Marriage's Brian Brown. Personally number five is our "favorite": "Same-sex unions are not marriages and Iowans should not be forced by law to treat them as such.” ... "This madness...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 7)
How extreme is the National Organization For Marriage? Well get this. Back in 1996, when that awful Defense of Marriage Act was passed, NOM's Maggie Gallagher actually spoke out against it. Because she found it to be -- get this...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 6)
This comes from The National Organization For Marriage's founder, Robert George: "...it is not really about benefits. It is about sex. The idea that is antithetical to those who are seeking to redefine marriage is that there is something uniquely...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 2)
Back in October of 2008, the National Organization For Marriage's Maggie Gallagher said the following in order to scare California voters into supporting that divisive misstep known as Prop 8: (If embedded audio doesn't load for you, you can listen...
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Yes on 1's biggest donor: An examination (Vol. 1)
Back in October of 2007, when the average person still thought NOM was nothing more than an onomatopoeic way to express the sound of eating, the group that commonly operates under that very acronym, the National Organization For Marriage, installed...
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10/23/2009
Audio: Can't 'Yes on 1' be factual about anything?
Because her name's Monique (MO-NEEK), not Monica: Anti-'mo marriage and anti-MO names? Well that's an unfortunate M.O. Think we'll vote NO. **EARLIER: We've already picked apart the ad's claims. Find that here.
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10/22/2009
OMG, WGME: They actually ran it!
Yesterday we showed you a clip from a Tuesday morning meeting, in which a WGME producer/news director type suggested that his news outlet should look into an 2008 anti-harassment, pro-acceptance document, with the newsman seeming to suggest (amidst unfortunate, anti-AP...
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10/21/2009
Video: Maine-ly Maddow
Rachel Maddow [MSNBC]
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10/20/2009
WGME invites us to be wall flies; we don't so much enjoy the buzz
Today, Maine's WGME news began posting videos of their morning meetings to Facebook. And you know what? We're super glad that they did, so that maybe we can stop this potentially negligent story from happening before it ever starts: *Video...
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Team 'Yes on1': Slowly morphing into 'On Second Thought Maybe Not on 1'?
We're absolutely loving the Stand For Marriage Maine Facebook page. Because even though they keep deleting everything that they don't want their supporters to see, we've managed to glean some great nuggets before their moderator's extremely itchy finger (he should...
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10/19/2009
Audio: Muttying reality
Even Marc Mutty seems to know that his campaign has been deceiving Mainers. This from MPBN: (Money part comes around 2:15 part) *Source: Controversy Rages Over Question One's Impact on School [MPBN] (H/t: Adam Bink) Okay, can we talk for...
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Yes on 1: No on 'the enemy'?
While they've been working all summer and fall to disconnect themselves, we have well established that the Stand For Marriage Maine coalition that's trying to pass Question One in Maine has so many ties to the rabidly anti-gay Christian Civic...
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10/16/2009
Stand For Marriage Maine: The most intellectually offensive campaign we've ever faced
We've expended scores of words on Maine's "yes on 1" campaign, and their insistence that the carrying out of Maine's already-passed, already-signed marriage equality bill will lead to same-sex marriage being taught in schools. And by "we," we don't just...
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Video: No on Question One, Yes on one uniting as one
After a year's time, I feel comfortable saying that California's No on 8 campaign was horrible when it came to the Netroots. I don't say this to slight anyone: It's simply a truth. There was almost nothing that we in...
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Video: 'All Things Considered' -- except for tax-paying citizens' right to civil equality
The Attorney General may have eviscerated the idea. But why should that matter to Stand For Marriage Maine? They are back on the air with another ad claiming that marriage equality is all about schools: Can and should gay families...
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10/15/2009
We've hit a 'yes on 1' nerve
Remember yesterday when we showed you that Facebook comment from a Stand For Marriage Maine supporter who went after someone solely because they claimed to be both a Christian and a "No on 1" supporter? Well that same Facebooker saw...
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10/13/2009
Rights-stripping Mainers are feeling a lil' cash-strapped
Ya know, it's one thing to be sour because your opposition has outfundraised you to the tune of $1.6 million. It's quite another to act as if your opposition is doing something to you by raising the excess of cash,...
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$2.7 million: That's how much ME's self-appointed morality cops have forced us all to waste
We're thrilled by these figures... NO on 1 Announces 12,000 Donors, $2.7 Million Raised 2,000 Mainers volunteer to protect Maine equality Portland, Maine (Tuesday, October 13, 2009)---NO on 1/Protect Maine Equality announced today that nearly 12,000 donors have contributed nearly...
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10/09/2009
Hey Marc, I need you to make some copies, mail this letter, and, oh yea -- roll back civil equality for gay people
People often ask me why I care so much about this equality fight. For me, that question is almost offensive. Because how could I not care about my life? My citizenship? My family? My country and the fair fulfillment of...
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10/07/2009
Stand For Marriage Maine doesn't want you to see this. That's exactly why you should
As expected and predicted, Stand For Marriage Maine disabled the comments and ratings on their latest YouTube video, once they realized that they were all going in the one-star-rated, pro-equality direction. But fortunately (and humorously) one of our enterprising commenters,...
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10/05/2009
Delete, delete, delete: Stand For Marriage Maine's continued war on dissension
This is how a certain thread on Stand For Marriage Maine's Facebook page looked just ten minutes ago: Mostly against us, but there is some principled and accurate (but perfectly fair and congenial) pushback from Matt Algren and Geoffrey Beaumont...
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Stand For [Stigmatizing your gay neighbors as doomed] Maine?
When we saw that a Mainer by the name of Susan Conroy has written a letter to the Portland Press Herald's editor, inexplicably linking marriage equality (i.e. legalized monogamy) to an increase in AIDS infections, we were annoyed: I love...
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It's not only bad campaign practice: It's bad humanity!
This comes directly from the "walking script" (download pdf) that Stand For Marriage Maine is giving to their door-to-door canvassers: Question 1 repeals and locks from ever taking effect a bill passed by the legislature and signed by the governor...
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One man, one woman, one party
So much for Maine's "yes on 1" campaign being a sweeping, non/bi-partisan affair. Stand For Marriage Maine just sent our this call to (right-handed) arms: What's at 9 Higgins Street, you ask? Well, that would be the headquarters of Maine's...
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10/02/2009
Audio: Fishin' for an unprincipled catch
We gay activists don't pop up at certain predetermined times to decidedly demand this or that or this. We exist at ALL times with the solid, unapologetic goals of equality under the civil law, protection from demonstrated harm, and decent...
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