MAGGIE GALLAGHER WRITES on The Maine Vote for Marriage.
Gay-marriage advocates in Maine had the benefit of learning from California. . . . There are not very many Mormons in Maine, or black people, either, so they cannot blame this loss on either minority group. Maine is a deep blue state, socially liberal and relatively secular, and close to Massachusetts, where people have presumably learned “the sky doesn’t fall” after gay marriage becomes law.
And yet people in Maine in a free and fair election decisively rejected gay marriage by an even bigger margin than in California. . . .