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With 35 percent of the precincts reporting, 57 percent had voted against the measure, with 43 percent in favor of it. Twice before, in 1998 and in 2000, voters rejected similar nondiscrimination laws by narrow margins. Maine is the 17th state to ban discrimination on the basis of sexualorientation and the 7th to protect transgender people fromdiscrimination.
"Today's win proves that dogged, grassroots organizing can overcome the lies and smears of anti-gay zealots and the profound unfairness of having minority rights put up for apopular vote," said Matt Foreman, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Matt is correct. This is a much needed victory because it shows that if we keep fighting, we will ulitmately win. New England is now a discrimination-free zone and for this we should be very proud. Maine is also a very beautiful state. Reward the voters with a nice Maine vacation - when it gets warmer.
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Its very disturbing to think that 18 states ban same sex marriage, let alone civil unions. With more than a quarter of the states against our rights, same-sex marriage rights at the federal level are all but dead in the water for any forseeable time. So our fellow gays in Massachusetts will continue to live in marital limbo. What a disgrace for our country. We've relinquished our leadership on civil rights for sure. A sad day.
I am probably not the first to make this observation, but for the immediate future, we should expect to see a 'free state/slave state' dichotomy.
Our victory will come much later and after much social upheaval, but there will be places that we will be able to live in relative freedon as well as places it will be hell.
posted by Anonymous, at
11/09/2005 12:07 PM
You queers can take stinkin New England. You people can turn it into sodom.
I moved from Vermont after it turned to faggotry. I now live happily in Oklahoma where the homos know their place. There is no such thing as gay rights, just gay wrongs.
Find God and he will set you free. Jesus LOVES you - even homos!!! We must END sin in the USofA.
We need the underground railroad again to help gays in the south escape from sanctimonious assholes like Fred Jerkz down there in Oklahicky. Fred, if you lived in the early 1800s I'm sure you'd be the first "good christian" to chop off Kunta Kinte's foot for 'runnin' away'. By the way freddie, do your co-religionists down there know you're a big closet case!? Y'all come back and read this gay website somemore--ya hea! Gary (NJ)
posted by Anonymous, at
11/09/2005 2:05 PM
Fred, you belong in Oklahoma, nothing but another sick state. You did us all a favor by moving there, one less to deal with. As Ghandi once said..."I like your Christ, but I do not like your christians, because they are so unlike their Christ." That's you, Fred, a bigot and a sick one at that. Why don't you move to Texas instead its even sicker there, you'd fit right in.
I am a gay Jesuit priest and, while I generally discourage vitriolic statements towards gays, I do recognize, through years of intense therapy by the church, that it is a curable illness. It is not terminal. While the "Love In Action" people are wrong to say that gay men can be made "straight," I can tell you that there is a way, over time, to control these sinful urges. I will always be gay, but I now have more control over the disease and I no longer feel trapped by an inner demon. But I do agree with the decision in Maine, there generally should be no discrimination or violence against gays. But for those of you that seek help, or feel like you have lost control, trust me there is a way out. Just hold on.
posted by Anonymous, at
11/09/2005 2:50 PM
Hey Fred,
Fuck you, you piece of shit. I think Oklahoma, even though it is a dumb hick state, is too good for you. I think you should have moved to alabama with roy moore, and the two of you could sit there and think you're christian, but we all know you are a vile hypocrite whose values, bigotry and hatred are the opposite of what Jesus taught. You christians are so funny, you love a God that would despite your behavior and the fact that you can't even honor the very book that you proclaim to love. I fucking hate you, you fucking pussy I so want you to come back here so you can pollute this website with your stupid, simplistic, inbred fanaticism. Go fuck something on your farm you degenerate scumbag.
posted by Anonymous, at
11/09/2005 3:10 PM
Maybe its my Post-Election day hangover here in Texas ... but whatever tolerance for "christians" I had - went out the window yesterday after watching the local news showing minister after minister declaring victory for jezuss after the Marriage Act passed here in Texas.
So forgive my bluntness - But Fuck Off Fred and Father Etkin !!
You are the equivalent of the KKK IMHO. Ignorant insufferable biogots.
As far as Sin goes ... Father cast the first stone will ya.
I don't believe Fr. Etkin is who he says he is, do you? FYI Etkin: being gay is not a disease or an illness. I can't imagine any Jesuit, supposedly the intellectuals of the church would ever make such a judgmental statement. Nobody taught me to be gay and my upbringing was as heterosexual as any other, two loving parents, neither one more domineering than the other. Being gay is as natural as being heterosexual. Why don't you take care of your hetero parishioners for a change and admonish them that they too may be suffering from a disease or illness simply because they violate church teaching by having sex before marriage, or use condoms, both mortal sins in your church. What about your hetero clergy who philander and father children...a big problem in Latin America. Are they too suffering from a disease that the church can cure? Get your own house in order before judging gays you hypocrite.
Texas was a wake-up call SODOMITES. The Lord wants you to leave the US and move to Paris, where you people can live with the Ayerabs until God's holy judgement.
Unless you repent, Hell awaits.
REPENT! REPENT! REPENT!
Red D. in the great state of Mississippi
posted by Anonymous, at
11/09/2005 7:11 PM
Hey Red D ... is that you!
Didn't I see you in a Gay Bar in New Orleans last Mardi Gras ... Yes I do believe that is you!
O - forgive Red D he just doesn't want anyone to find out that he's been taking it up the ass for years down in Ole Miss!
I tend to think that all of these posts from alleged christian shit bags are the same troll trying to incite anger. If not, we've got a lot of "curious" people. Why in the hell are they looking at this website? If it is a christian, clean up your own dog shit before sticking your nose in the affairs of others. Got it. Good, now get on your knees and pray that your god forgives you for hating others. You will need that forgiveness where you are headed.
posted by Anonymous, at
11/09/2005 8:18 PM
Red D - the Great State of Mississippi???!!!??? I fell out of my chair laughing at that one.
BC...its obvious that low-lives such as Red D and Fred just can't handle the truth. If they are so comfortable with their assumed heterosexual orientation, they wouldn't be here venting their venom. We've touched a raw nerve with them and they know it. They have an overwhelming sense of inadequacy, hence their resolve to all the antigay vitriol. Its the classic manifestation of deeply rooted homosexual orientation in themselves. They can't deal with it so they lash out by coming here. They wouldn't do it on hetero websites. In a way they gain some validation by baiting us, so from now on, we should just ignore them and refrain from even responding. Its obvious they become enabled by our responses. They're command of English is abysmal I might add.
Homosexuality is 100% natural. A small percentage of any population is biologically homosexual - it is like being left handed. It is a scientific fact.
The priest above is wrong. He is either a troll or a very sad man [or both]. People need to have the courage to think for themselves and not let others, like the catholic church, do their thinking for them. Unfortunately some people are too weak to think for themselves.
Hey Fred, Tell the truth to the world, Man. Us rightous ones gotta band together to deeat the fags. Sieg Heil!
posted by Anonymous, at
5/10/2006 10:52 AM
Hey fred, Keep speaking the truth. Us good christians have to band together to defeat the evil fags and jews. Sieg Heil.
posted by Anonymous, at
5/10/2006 10:54 AM
god made adam and eve, not adam and steve
posted by Anonymous, at
5/10/2006 11:13 AM
Dear all Fags,
God made the vagina for a reason, so us men could pork it. What else could it possibly be for? Storage?
Sincerely Peter, (I live in Grand Rapids, Michigan any gay who wants to find me come and get some death bitch)
posted by Anonymous, at
5/10/2006 12:50 PM
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