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As Maine Goes, So Goes Gay Marriage

Nate Basting, left, and Shaun Dow, both of Portland, participate in a gay marriage rally, the day before election day in Portland, Maine, on Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Gay marriage legislation was approved by Maine's Legislature earlier in the year however Maine voters go to the polls on Tuesday and have the opportunity to become the first in the nation to approve gay marriage or vote against it, which would overturn the earlier legislation. (AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach)

Maine could become the first state to endorse gay marriage by popular referendum Tuesday, as voters head to the polls to decide whether to repeal a recently-passed law legalizing unions between people of the same gender.

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Focus of Gay-Marriage Fight Is Maine

Stace McDaniel, a a retired school teacher from Atlanta, worked on the No on 1 campaign in Portland. (Craig Dilger for The New York Times)

Less than a week before Maine voters decide whether to repeal the state's new same-sex marriage law, donations and volunteers are pouring in to sway what both sides call a nationally significant fight.

Posted in civil rights, gay marriage, lgbt, marriage equality

Maine Same-Sex Marriage Measure: Prop. 8 Rerun

Maine is the latest battleground for same-sex marriage, with voters deciding next month whether to approve a measure overturning their state Legislature's decision in May to legalize such marriages.

The campaign for the measure, known as Question 1, looks like a rerun of last year's Proposition 8 in California, which struck down same-sex marriage. TV ads for the measure are the work of the Sacramento firm of Schubert Flint Public Affairs, which ran the successful California campaign.

Posted in gay marriage, marriage equality

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August 12, 2009
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CONTACT: Equality California (EQCA)

Vaishalee Raja 
916-284-9187  vaishalee@eqca.org

Equality California Today Releases Roadmap, Recommended Timeline to Restore Freedom to Marry for Same-Sex Couples

SACRAMENTO - August 12 -
What: After many conversations with community members across the state, coalition partners, donors and political strategists, Equality California (EQCA) will hold a teleconference to discuss its "Winning Back Marriage Equality in California: Analysis and Roadmap," with a recommended timeline on returning to the ballot to restore the freedom to marry for same-sex couples. EQCA will also discuss the achievements of its Win Marriage Back: Make it Real! effort, an on-the-ground, statewide organizing campaign launched almost 100 days ago.

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Confirmed: God is Slightly Gay

I am sitting here right now smiling just a little, fondly recalling that famously controversial children's book, the one about the gay penguins.

Remember? That positively adorable pair of them, at the Central Park Zoo, who had adopted an abandoned egg and then hatched it themselves and were raising the chick together as a couple, even though the chick was clearly not theirs -- though of course how penguins can actually tell whose kid is whose is still a question. Never mind that now.

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An Open Letter to Obama: Gay Equality Needs Your Voice

Dear President Obama:

I am writing to respectfully urge you to bring the energetic moral vision that you championed as a presidential candidate to the cause of equality for gay and lesbian Americans.

Posted in doma, gay marriage, gay rights, lgbt, marriage equality

San Francisco Asks Federal Judge to Toss Prop. 8

Activists in support of gay marriage rally outside the Beverly Hilton hotel, where U.S. President Barack Obama was attending a Democratic party fundraiser, in Beverly Hills, California May 27, 2009. (REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has asked a federal judge to overturn California's ban on same-sex marriage, allying the city with a lawsuit that could reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

In papers filed Thursday night in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, City Attorney Dennis Herrera's office argued that Proposition 8 was motivated by hatred of gays and lesbians and violates their constitutional right to be free of discrimination.

Posted in Equality/Justice, gay marriage, prop8

Maine Gay-Marriage Foes Hire California Firm That Ran Prop 8

Activists rally in support of gay marriage outside the Beverly Hilton hotel, where U.S. President Barack Obama was attending a Democratic party fundraiser, in Beverly Hills, California May 27, 2009.(REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

Opponents and supporters of gay marriage are laying the groundwork for a tough summer political campaign that experts say will put Maine in the national spotlight.

Organizers of an effort to overturn a new law legalizing same-sex marriage in Maine have hired the California public relations firm that ran the successful Proposition 8 campaign to overturn same-sex marriage there.

Supporters of the law have hired a seasoned Maine political strategist who ran the successful Maine Won't Discriminate campaign in 2005. That campaign fought a people's veto of Maine's gay-rights law.

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Nice Try, Dick

Sorry, Dick. You can't have it. You can't have even a moment of credit, a glimpse of sympathy, any sort of merciful forgiveness just because you sort of, kind of half-assedly came out in support of gay marriage, again, even though you actually didn't.

Here's what you do get: a sidelong look of momentary disbelief, a quick glance in your direction as you sit in your puddle of sour irrelevance on the sidelines of modern culture, as the rest of the thoughtful, open-hearted human race leaves you in the embittered dust. Hey, you made your bed of nails, Dick. You get to impale yourself on it.

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The President of Paradox

It will be an historic occasion when Sonia Sotomayor takes her seat. Assuming she's confirmed, she'll be the first woman of color and the first person from the Latino community to become a Supreme Court justice.

Announcing this, his first top court appointment, President Obama put it clearly enough: "When Sonia Sotomayor ascends those marble steps to assume her seat on the highest court of the land, America will have taken another important step towards realizing the ideal that is etched above its entrance: Equal Justice under the law."

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