I actually was in Maine the past few days right before the November 3rd elections, and what shocked me was how absolutely gay . . .

. . . the anti-gay marriage protest signs were.  (They just screamed, “I hate gay people!”  And they were yellow — Very gay!)

. . . and wimpy was the fear-mongering being deployed that gay, married people are somehow going to ‘invade your schools and make [ more . . . ]]]> Talk about a headline, huh!  And — interestingly enough — it about sums the whole thing up when it comes to Gay Marriage, at least in Maine.

I actually was in Maine the past few days right before the November 3rd elections, and what shocked me was how absolutely gay . . .

. . . the anti-gay marriage protest signs were.  (They just screamed, “I hate gay people!”  And they were yellow — Very gay!)

. . . and wimpy was the fear-mongering being deployed that gay, married people are somehow going to ‘invade your schools and make your kids gay’.  (Sorry, gay people already exist, and if you think ‘married’ is the majic ingredient that makes a gay person capable of making your kids gay, then you really are an idiot.)

. . . the guy giving the victory speech looked, sounded, and generally presented himself.  (Compare him to his counterpart, the actual gay man rallying gay marriage supporters to stay with the fight — Seriously, the gay guy looked straight as an arrow in comparison.)

What’s sad about the vote in Maine is that — totally lost in the mix — is that we’re talking about Civil Rights.  There’s absolutely nothing particularly special about Marriage — It’s really just a term that we use to describe something special.  It’s, albeit, something particularly special, but why someone would want to keep something that special from an entire class of citizens, Citizens of these United States, is beyond my comprehension.  Honestly, it cheapens Marriage, and it’s unfortunate that those people who don’t like gay people don’t get that fact.

And just for all the conservative wingnuts out there who think Religion or anything of the sort has a monopoly on Marriage, please be duly informed that marriages where first considered communal and social before they became at all religious.  Religion is not the source of Marriage — Religion actually jumped on the bandwagon when it saw what a great and useful thing Marriage really was.

The United States of America has and always will improve itself through the expansion, not restriction, of Liberty.  Consider this a bit of a pep-talk to anyone out there disappointed by the result.  Afterall, roughly 47% of the voters support Gay Marriage — That’s greatly larger than Maine’s likely gay population, and anyone who’s gay should take pride in the fact a great many voters support your rights, even though they’re not.