Gay Marriage Loses in Maine

I stayed up late tonight to watch the results coming in from Maine. A steady stream of messages coming in from from my family and friends down there, and others trying to save gay marriage.

First they were excited, then they were hopeful, and then they were disappointed.

As gay Americans have been every single time gay marriage has been put to the ballot, and the majority gets to decide whether they are fully human or not.

I'm so sorry for all the gay people and their straight friends who worked so hard to try to convince people in Maine to do the right thing.













They must be so disappointed.

But sadly the wretched bigots from NOM and the Catholic Church, managed to fool the ignorant into thinking that gay marriage was a threat to children.

Their hateful message worked.

And our gentle message didn't...



But you know I wouldn't change a thing. Because that's why we're better than them.

My brothers and sisters and friends in Maine fought the BEST campaign ever. They were brilliant. I'm so proud of them.

What gay writer Rex Wockner had to say is true:

There will be days like this Tuesday when bigots might force a backward step in the inevitable, unstoppable march to equal treatment under the law for GLBT Americans. The next generation will remember "Yes on 1" voters the way we remember people who believed black folks should drink from separate water fountains. I absolutely guarantee you that.

And so is what Andrew Sullivan says.

However long it takes, how many battles we have to lose before we win the war, however hard it is to put your very integrity as a human being on the line for approval by strangers: this is worth doing. This is why we're here. This is what we're supposed to do.

History is on our side. The creepy bigots will be defeated.

And whether we like it or not. And I do.

We were born to FIGHT...