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Maine vote reverberates

Same sex marriage goes down in Maine and the defeat could lead to a reassessment of pushing the issue again in 2010 in California. The National Review Online positively crows about the Maine vote:

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.

This entry was posted on November 4th, 2009 at 02:48:15 pm and is filed under Uncategorized.