I can’t believe it. The people of Maine came through. They rejected homosexual “marriage” in their state.
But that doesn’t mean the fight’s over. There’s something about that “will of the people” jazz some politicians just don’t like. Fundamentally. For example, 54 percent of voting Californian’s barred their government from hiring, contracting, and admitting on the basis of race. Thirteen years later, the California legislature drafted a bill bringing back set-aside contracting for minority businesses. Last summer, Republican governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the racial quota bill into law…although the constitution, which he swore to uphold, prohibits it.
Well done, voters of Maine. Last November, California voters (including me) said YES to adding the understood-throughout-the-ages definition of marriage to the state constitution: Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California. The vote in Maine will be challenged, just as it was in California.
I’ll have more to say later. Must process this.
