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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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I've been to Maine. It's a pleasant enough state, probably damned cold in winter. I was there in August 1982. I never realised then that Maine might have an importance.
So, what is the import of yesterday's poll?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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yusime
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Location: United States
Registered: April 2008
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If you ignore the fact that Maine is the first state to legalize same-sex marriage using their legislater that later rejected the measure before it was enacted not all that important really. If you consider the idea that roughly 55% of the general public is against same-sex marriage it is not really suprising. If Maine had decided to ban gay marriage without the actions being taken by the legislautre to legalize gay marriage in the first place, basicly if Maine had tried to prevent debate on the issue it would be a much bigger problem than what occurred. It is the only New England state to ban gay marriage right now and the voters did so in objection to politicans in their state just like California and their courts. Until the population of a state grants marriage to people who are gay by popular vote this basic trend will continue and they must do so without the aid of courts or the legislater it MUST be an amendment to their state constitution by popular vote. If that does not happen this trend will NEVER change. Basically the voters in a state that allows marriage for people who are gay MUST NOT be in a position to affirm the politicans in their state for an exclusive political idealism.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake since for him a spinal cord would suffice. Albert Einstein
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johnleeb
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Location: USA
Registered: January 2009
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Quoting Grasshopper in "Promises to Keep":
"This is Wyoming.
Population: 493,782.
Male population: 248,374.
"If one out of every ten men is gay or bi or interested, that means that in Wyoming, there are approximately 24,837 men who want to love who they love and want who they want. BUT........as my dad said just a few minutes ago, 'There are no homosexuals in Wyoming'.
"We have the smallest population in the United States. Our state nickname is 'The Equality State' and our state motto is 'Equal Rights'."
It is the right wing's religious nuts who 'believe' that rights for gays are 'Special Rights' and not 'Equal Rights'. And, of course,if that 'belief' is proven false, so are all their other 'beliefs' in error, and thus their religion falls apart.
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