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- “The woman at my polling place asked me do I believe in equality for gay and lesbian people. I was pretty surprised to be asked a question like that. It made no sense to me. Finally I asked her: what do you think I fought for in Omaha Beach?” Phil Spooner
Gay marriage repealed in Maine
Yes on 1 campaign cheered as they heard the announcement by computer hookup at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer.
“We went up against tremendous odds,” Marc Mutty, public affairs director for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland who has been on loan to the campaign, said from Portland.
Maine’s gay marriage opponents recruited Frank Schubert, the p.r. strategist behind last year’s Proposition 8 advertisements in California, to employ his signature tricks–including telling voters that, if the law remains as it is, gay marriage will be taught to schoolchildren.
BANGOR, Maine — A constitutional amendment that encountered no resistance in the Legislature ran into a wall of no votes.
Question 7 is seen by many election officials as a minor adjustment that will make a major difference for town clerks. Those clerks are responsible for certifying signatures on petitions gathered in the name of a people’s veto, which nullifies a law passed by the Legislature, or a citizen’s initiative, which proposes a new law. The certification process requires looking up each name to verify the signer is a registered voter and comparing the signatures.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."