Comments on: Maine Speaks: Freedom to Marry? No! Freedom to Smoke Pot? Hell, Yeah!

By: Stefany

Stefany — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:53:10 +0000

I noticed that they had no mention of Hancock County, where we had a higher percentage of NO on 1! that’s right.

By: F.G. Fitzer

F.G. Fitzer — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:43:21 +0000

What about spelling and capitalization? Do they also have no place in the eyes of humans?

By: allin

allin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:46:47 +0000

in truth gay has no true love it is pure evil lust it has no place in the eyes of humans if you beleave it is right to join do it in common laws. do not anger the god who made all things to the gays get a brain dont think with your lust. keep two yoursalfs and leave the holy people alone are …… what gos around will come around. not gay in truth is evil lust face it…

By: ramone

ramone — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:03:43 +0000

i am glad to see jacob following the “turn the other cheek” approach. jesus approves, i would imagine.
how about the homophobic jokes? can you forgive me?
i do have a perverse sense of humor. do you see it standing in my way at the pearly gates? i bare no ill will, some things just strike me as funny. like the guy who rescued a bull-dog from the local shelter only to have the animal tear off his face(true story), some things are just too ironic.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:30:51 +0000

should read transparently. Nothing is hidden

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:28:54 +0000

I dont see Jim as unkind.. Just very transpatently honest

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:28:16 +0000

Well, yep, I’m in agreement with you, except for the “kind” part. I certainly admit that I’m impolite and discourteous at times; it’s one of my personal difficulties that I have a loose social appropriateness sphincter. But I feel a) it’s kinder to support someone’s rights than to smile and pretend to agree with their declarations, and b) Jacob’s a human being with an upright spine, not a lamb with a woolly coat. Whether he wants to continue to pretend to be a lamb is up to him.

By: ramone

ramone — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:59:54 +0000

i’m saying it does tranfer, just not in the numbers you want. if we could get the other 20% swayed in any of these decisions the point would be moot. this goes back to “TCM…tim”‘s comment about “most folks” and changing their minds. it takes time and teaching, more so with gay rights, i’m sorry to say. with medical marijuana there is a buck to be made. that changes minds a little faster.
and don’t even attempt to change god’s mind. he’s been latent homo erotic for so long every time he sucks a straw he envisions johnny the wad holmes.
it’s humor! jacob! humor!
jim, you really should be kinder to jacob. a lamb has to follow it’s shepard. hopefully to the shears and not the slaughter.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:32:46 +0000

What I’m saying is true, regardless of whether you think it’s stretching the point or not.

I’m not saying that medical marijuana shouldn’t be legal. I’m not saying the drug war and its many violations of human dignity are right. I’m noting with interest that interest in freedom for pot smokers doesn’t transfer to interest in freedom for gay and lesbian Mainers. It doesn’t. It didn’t here in Maine; if it had, we would have seen a different ballot question outcome.

Beyond this particular discussion, I’m troubled by so many Americans’ lack of compassion, their difficulty in rousing concern for the problems and issues of others. Straight people should care more about the inequalities endured by gay people. Gay people should care more about pot smokers getting thrown in jail for long prison sentences. Pot smokers should care more about people being put on watch lists and under warrantless surveillance because of their religion. I think a lot of the problems in America can be traced back to so many Americans’ willingness to ignore injustice so long as the injustice is being perpetrated upon somebody else.

By: ramone

ramone — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:16:58 +0000

if all those who voted to legalize…
the problem is the votes overlap, i’m guessing you already had the majority of the med/pot crowd. the 40% that voted to save gay marriage are part of the 60% that want the right to pain relief [ among other things, like not being thrown in jail].
you talk like pot smokers are all me,me,me…
people are in prisons, people are in jails, people are under illegal surveillance, people are being beheaded… because of the prohibtion of marijuana.
i know gay people want to be married. but, you really stretch the point.