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Happy gay news!!! The faggots aren't getting married in Maine or 34 other brave states!!

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The people have spoken. faggots need to take their worn out assholes
and move on.

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By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: November 4, 2009

In a stinging setback for the national gay-rights movement, Maine
voters narrowly decided to repeal the state’s new law allowing same-
sex marriage.




With 87 percent of precincts reporting early Wednesday morning, 53
percent of voters had approved the repeal, ending an expensive and
emotional fight that was closely watched around the country as a
referendum on the national gay-marriage movement. Polls had suggested
a much closer race.

Maine voters also decided to expand the state’s 10-year-old medical
marijuana law, approving a ballot question to allow state-regulated
dispensaries to grow the drug and sell it to patients. The vote comes
weeks after the Obama administration announced it would not prosecute
patients and distributors who are in "clear and unambiguous"
compliance with state laws. Maine will be the third state, after New
Mexico and Rhode Island, to allow tightly regulated, nonprofit
marijuana dispensaries.

With the repeal of the same-sex marriage law, Maine became the 31st
state to reject same-sex marriage at the ballot box. Five other states
— Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, New Hampshire and Vermont — have
legalized same-sex marriage, but only through court rulings and
legislative action.

The Maine vote was particularly discouraging for gay-rights groups
because it took place in New England, the region that has been the
most open to same-sex marriage, and because opponents of the repeal
had far outspent backers. Gov. John Baldacci, a Democrat, had
enthusiastically backed the state law allowing gay marriage, passed by
the legislature in May but put on hold until the referendum took
place.

The repeal came a year after California voters banned same-sex
marriage with a constitutional amendment. Preliminary results showed
strong opposition to the repeal in Portland, the state’s biggest city,
but not enough to counter widespread support in more conservative
regions to the north.

In another Election Night setback for gay-rights supporters, Gov. Jon
Corzine of New Jersey, who supports gay marriage, lost to Christopher
Christie, a Republican who opposes it. Many believed the legislature
there was close to passing a gay marriage bill, but with Mr. Corzine’s
defeat all bets are off.

Throughout the bitter campaign, supporters of same sex marriage had
stressed that gay couples deserve equal treatment under the law,
banking on Maine’s reputation as a “live and let live” state.
Opponents repeatedly warned voters that if gays were allowed to marry,
it would be taught in the public schools, a tactic that proved
effective in California last year.

The Catholic Church was a leading supporter of the repeal campaign,
even asking parishes to pass a second collection plate at Sunday mass
to help the cause. The National Organization for Marriage also
contributed heavily to the repeal campaign; it is under investigation
by Maine’s ethics commission for possibly flouting state campaign
finance laws by refusing to reveal its donors.

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