Comments on: Massive crowd as Maine lawmakers take up gay marriage

By: shawn

shawn — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:10:29 +0000

Let’s all keep our fingers crossed on this one. Of course it doesn’t hurt to pester the sh*t outta the reps in Augusta! Heh,heh,heh.

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:30:22 +0000

Apparently, the Roman Catholic bishop has declared that they support civil rights for homosexuals and backs civil unions (despite having opposed every civil rights bill that would have protected gay people); they just don’t support gay marriage. This must mean that they are very afraid that marriage equality will prevail. If it does, I’ll bet a dollar to a doughnut that the constitutional amendment that they will sponsor prohibiting gay marriage will also prohibit civil unions. The liars.

By: JG

JG — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:14:25 +0000

I was there for part of the day and the support was amazing! As this article states, supporters far outnumbered opponents. Unfortunately, some of the local TV reports implied that the crowd was equally split and took camera shots from an angle that showed more opposition. I would guess that at least 80% of the crowd was in support.

By: Mena

Mena — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:30:33 +0000

I sincerely hope that Maine gains equal marriage rights. I’m down in Texas; I know it will be several years before anything trickle downs here to us. THANK all of you for fighting for us!

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:00:35 +0000

New England is cool.

By: Randy

Randy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:56:14 +0000

Being surrounded by Canada, Vermont, and Massachusetts, each of them a jurisdiction that has marriage equality, it’s hard to imagine Maine and New Hampshire failing to do so as well. They are literally surrounded by evidence that the lies about it are not true.

By: kujie

kujie — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:42:09 +0000

I am so excited to hear all about this. As a former Mainer, gay rights activist, and former president of the gay and lesbian organization, Wilde-Stein, at the University of Maine, it makes me so proud of that state that I have calle home for 12 years. It was fun getting text messages at 4:30 am about all the supporters, and I’m still getting messages with updates. I’m certain it will pass.