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Opinions may differ on particular strategies. But the unofficial results show that, as with many other cultural issues, whether Mainers voted for or against same-sex marriage largely depended on where they call home. Awful lot of green, isn't it? Full Article at Pam's House Blend
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Note to the religious Right: if you're going to ask a surgically enhanced beauty queen to promote family values, it's best to check that her previous career hasn't involved soft core pornography. Full Article at New Zealand Herald
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Gay activists arrive outside the Australia's Labor Party conference at Darling Harbour in Sydney, August 1, 2009. Gay activist staged mock weddings across Australia on Saturday as the governing Labor Party voted against changing its ban on gay marriage. View Photo »
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Voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.
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PORTLAND, Maine Maine voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the gay rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in New England, the corner of the country most supportive of gay marriage. Full Article at San Diego Union-Tribune
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MADISON The state Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's domestic partner registry. The court offered no explanation in an order issued Tuesday. The registry offers gay couples legal benefits. Full Article at Green Bay Press-Gazette
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The race for the 2010 Republican nomination for governor began to take shape along social policy lines Saturday as former Gov. Terry Branstad joined his primary rivals. Full Article at Des Moines Register
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Gay activists arrive outside the Australia's Labor Party conference at Darling Harbour in Sydney, August 1, 2009. Gay activist staged mock weddings across Australia on Saturday as the governing Labor Party voted against changing its ban on gay marriage. View Photo »
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We don’t need, in a local election, people dragging in issues like abortion and gun control and gay marriage and border protection and all those national issues that everyone likes to get up and start beating their chests over ... Local elections are about streets and parks and managing the budget.
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The first “debate” of the four Massachusetts Democrats competing for a Senate seat — temporarily occupied by a seat-warmer installed to provide a filibuster-proof majority for the party — demonstrated just how far to the left politics have shifted... Full Article at Worcester Telegram & Gazette
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Don't celebrate … too much Add toll, then bank future funds Social Security's flaws are outrageous Paltry share recovered for our state Give voters credit for intelligence Show those we elect some respect Government efficiency doubted While... Full Article at The Columbian
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SACRAMENTO, CA - JUNE 17: A same-sex marriage supporter holds a sign before a press conference celebrating the one-year anniversary of a California Supreme Court ruling allowing same-sex marriages in Sacramento, June 17, 2009 in Sacramento, California.
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Voters in the state of Maine voted no to gay marriage but yes to medical marijuana. That's right, people in Maine believe marriage should be a sacred institution between a really stoned man and a really stoned woman.
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We don’t need, in a local election, people dragging in issues like abortion and gun control and gay marriage and border protection and all those national issues that everyone likes to get up and start beating their chests over ... Local elections are about streets and parks and managing the budget.
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Maine: Voters there got it right on same-sex marriage
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One of the most divisive issues in Oregon's history may be coming back to voters as the state's largest gay-rights group kicked off their campaign Monday to legalize same-sex marriage in the state.
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There's been a shift in the social acceptance of gay marriage, but obviously, based on this result, there's not a majority there
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Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit, why or why not?
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But seeing the success of a gay marriage position in Iowa, a neighboring state with somewhat similar values, is one of those facts on the ground that has changed things ... It has changed the view of some folks in the GLBT community about how far and fast they would like to push the issue.
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Mainers' 53-47 vote to reject gay marriage does more than simply slap down a law that just six months ago had made Maine the U.S.'s second state to permit same-sex couples to wed.
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It's still a question of when and not a question of if there will be full rights for gays and lesbians ... We should have been able to pull it out in Maine, but it may be that same-sex marriage is just on the wrong side of the tipping point.
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Barack Obama is as much a messiah now as he ever was. The CBO has confirmed that not a single American had Barack Obama in mind when casting any vote for the GOP or against gay marriage. I am not thinking about Barack Obama. You are not thinking about Barack Obama. NOBODY IS THINKING ABOUT BARACK OBAMA....
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I came to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage
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Despite winning the governor’s race by a 17-percentage point blowout, Virginia Republicans insisted Wednesday that they had gained no broad mandate and would make their top priority the pragmatic platform that drove voters to the polls did not mention gun control or abortion, much less gay marriage.
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To be frank, this is a win for motivated conservative activists who are driven by issues and not party. Dede Scozzafava's advocacy of the extreme Obama agenda would have been a great loss for the GOP and all those who care about the values enshrined in its platform ... The road to a GOP majority is not ...
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The results in Maine underscore exactly why we are challenging California's same-sex marriage ban
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In Maine, you probably heard about this, voters were voting on gay marriage. They decided against gay marriage, 53 to 47 percent.
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Maine might be different from California but the National Organization for Marriage in Maine (which opposed same-sex marriage) waged a cookie cutter campaign
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Every time the citizens have voted on marriage, they have always sided with natural marriage and rejected same-sex marriage. Maine dramatically illustrates the will of the people, and politicians should wake up and listen
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Socially liberal Maine rejects a gay marriage initiative -- making it the 31st time (out of 31 tries) that voters have torpedoed such proposals. How long until gay marriage proponents start decrying America's 'climate of hate?' 3, 2, 1....
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Proponents of same-sex marriage, unlike in California's Prop 8, can't blame Maine on Mormons, on African Americans who turned out for Barack Obama, or on confusing ballot wording. Their issue loses when the people decide. And it loses every time.
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You have to reject the anti-gay marriage stuff, or you’ll never win anywhere but the Alabama. And California. And Maine, apparently.
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To be frank, this is a win for motivated conservative activists who are driven by issues and not party. Dede Scozzafava's advocacy of the extreme Obama agenda would have been a great loss for the GOP and all those who care about the values enshrined in its platform. The road to a GOP majority is not pav...
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In Maine the AP is calling the gay marriage proposition a loss. But down in Houston, Texas, the openly lesbian mayoral candidate, Annise Parker, who I really never heard of until very recently, was the top vote-getter tonight in a race still to be settled in a run-off.
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Maine voters on Tuesday repealed a state law granting same-sex couples the right to marry, defeating an effort by gay activists who hoped the state would become the first to approve gay marriage at the polls.
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If we don't win, then Maine will have its place in infamy because no state has ever voted for homosexual marriage
SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
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