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Jesse Connolly, campaign manager for Maine's "No on 1", wrote a piece yesterday for the Huffington Post explaining what he believes led to the campaign's defeat at the polls:
"...here's where it gets tricky and here's where we need some answers...
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Demonstrators in Portland and Bangor, Maine protested the Catholic church's involvement in the passage of Question 1 on Sunday morning. Portland residents took their grievances to the street in front of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception....
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Maggie's back with another message about Maine, AFTER THE JUMP...
Note: It's playwright Jeff Whitty (thanks, Kevin)
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Maggie Gallagher clucks to the Catholic News Agency over the bigot victory in Maine , AFTER THE JUMP...
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SESAME STREET: Conservatives are upset about an Oscar the Grouch skit which makes fun of 'Pox News', calling it "trashy."
BRIAN BROWN: NOM's Executive Director "flustered by questions" from David Catania at DC marriage equality hearings.
MAINE: I...
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Focus on the Family donated $115,000 to stop marriage equality in Maine. Check out how much the Catholic Church donated here (it was a lot more).
300 protest play featuring transsexual Jesus in Glasgow.
Was Adam Lambert's Halloween chum his new...
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New Yorkers held a rally in Union Square last night opposing the anti-gay vote in Maine on Tuesday, and looking ahead to next week, when Governor David Paterson has promised to call a special session of the state senate.
Watch OurSceneTV's report...
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MSNBC's Contessa Brewer asks D.C.'s anti-gay bigot Bishop Harry Jackson, "People seem so energized to go out and fight same-sex marriage.
why aren't they spending all that energy fighting divorce?"
On another note, in the earlier clip I posted of...
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Said Brewer in reporting on the Maine vote: "And today you can add Maine to a long line of states, about 30 so far,
where voters have chosen to define marriage traditionally: The union
between one man and one woman."
Media Matters' Jamison Foser...
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Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council and Evan Wolfson of Freedom to Marry joined Anderson Cooper last night to discuss the marriage defeat in Maine.
WOLFSON: Well, what
happened is it's very difficult for a minority to persuade a majority
to...
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Marriage Equality New York holding rally tonight to protest anti-gay vote in Maine: "Please join us at a rally on Nov 4th in Union Square on 14th Street
side at 5:30pm urging the NYS Senate to vote and in response to the
votes on marriage equality...
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(image Bangor Daily News via reddit)
Check out this photo of the "Yes on 1" people rejoicing after taking marriage rights away from millions of Mainers.
Said Rev. Bob Emrich of Palmyra: "God has given us this victory and it is very
important for us...
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David Mixner reacts to the unfortunate events in Maine:
"Refuse to allow any of our fellow Americans, President Obama or our
allies to view this as a political issue who time hasn't quite come.
America is in the process of creating a system of Gay...
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So, some bad news and some good news. Here are the major races we were watching on the liveblog last night, which was a huge success. We had over 12,000 participants and were the third most trafficked "Cover it Live" election event last night (after...
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With 87 percent of precincts reporting, the law permitting same-sex couples to marry in Maine has been repealed. Despite the numbers (53% of the vote), gay marriage supporters have refused to concede; however, the hopes of pulling out the referendum...