Who would have thought, more than two centuries after the founding of the United States of America, so many people in the USA would still be so resistant to the core principles of liberty, equality and justice for all? Generations after the addition to the Constitution of a requirement for equality under the law for all people, we’re still struggling to enact that standard.
Today in Maine, the people voted on a referendum, crafted and funded mostly by organizations living outside of Maine, that seeks to return same-sex couples to the status of second-class citizenship, to rip away equal access to marriage under the law, as the Constitution of the United States guarantees.
The Bangor Daily is currently reporting that, with 28 percent of precincts reporting, those voting yes to the bigotry of Proposition 1 are ever so slightly ahead of those voting no. A “no” vote is a vote for marriage equality. A “yes” vote is a vote to attack marriage rights. The vote at this point is as follows:
Yes 74802 50.51%
No 73292 49.49%
Whatever the final results are, I will remain profoundly disturbed that so many people still believe that legal rights in the USA are only a privilege to be enjoyed by the popular majority.
No update on that BanorDaily website for a hour (an or a?)
The chat room you guys posted has it at Yes 50.3, No 49.7
What, you didn’t get the memo? We don’t need no steeenking Constitution anymore. Rights? In a police state? Fat chance.