Last night, while most people were glued to the two gubernatorial races in New Jersey and Virgina or following the goings on in New York’s 23rd district, voters in Maine were going to the ballot box to vote on same-sex marriage or to put it more accurately — to vote on the repeal of the law signed by Gov. John Baldacci on May 6th.
According to official results obtained by the Bangor Daily News “With 87 percent of precincts reporting, the campaign to overturn Maine’s same-sex marriage law won with 53 percent of the vote vs. 47 percent opposed to Question 1″.
Campaign manager of Stand for Marriage Maine, Frank Schubert, made the announcement via computer hookup at Jeff’s Catering in Brewer. The 40 or so people who worked for the Yes on 1 campaign cheered as Mr. Schubert exclaimed “It has all come together tonight and the institution of marriage has been preserved.”
“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. “We all know we were the little guy going up against the big guy, but we prevailed. We prevailed because the people of Maine — the silent majority — the folks back home spoke with their votes.
“What they had to say,” Mutty continued, “is marriage matters because it’s between a man and a woman. [This campaign] has never been about hating gays, but about preserving marriage and only about preserving marriage, and that’s what we did tonight.”
Same-sex marriage proponents were looking forward to Maine becoming the first state to win a popular vote instituting a same-sex marriage law as opposed to other states such as… Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, Iowa and New Hampshire who have established same-sex laws legislatively or judicially.
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