ABCNews.com: 53% Vote on Same-sex Marriage in Maine a 'Narrow Victory': PHOTO
President Barack Obama's 2008 popular vote victory, roughly 53% of the electorate , should be considered "narrow" in retrospect, perhaps. After all, ABC News editors consider a similar margin of victory for same-sex Marriage opponents in Maine last night to be "narrow." The headline and subheader for Devin Dwyer's November 4 story: Maine Gay Marriage Law Repealed: Voters Narrowly Approve Measure, Dealing Blow To Same-Sex Couples To his credit, Dwyer himself avoided...

Maine Voters Say No to Same Sex (Gay) Marriage Law
  November 3, 2009 Off Year Elections, Surprise, Surprise Surprise. And the hits keep coming from yesterdays off year election … The people of Maine have spoken and delivered a blow to the Gay Rights movement. The State of Maine, what has become the liberal State of Maine lately has rejected the Gay Marriage law . The Maine voters have repealed the state law that would have allowed same sex couples to marry. What is most interesting about Gay Marriage legislation? It has never...

Maine Voters Repeal Same-Sex Marriage Law in Close Vote: PHOTO
In a closely watched race that ran late into the night Tuesday, voters in Maine repealed a recent law that legalized same-sex Marriage in the state. During hours of vote counting, the two sides kept within one percentage point of each other. But opponents of the law finally broke away, holding on to 53 percent of the vote with 87 percent of the state's precincts reporting. Turnout was higher than expected , reaching 50 percent of the state's electorate, a solid 15 percent above the projected...

Defeat in Maine a harsh blow to gay-marriage drive - Yahoo! News
The stars seemed aligned for supporters of Gay Marriage . They had Maine 's Governor, legislative leaders and major Newspapers on their side, plus a huge edge in campaign funding. So losing a landmark referendum was a devastating blow, for activists in Maine and nationwide. In an election that had been billed for weeks as too close to call, Maine's often unpredictable voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed. Gay Marriage has now lost in all 31 states...

Voters Repeal Maine's Same-Sex Marriage Law
The Maine Legislature passed a law last spring that would have legalized same-sex Marriage. Implementation of the law was put on hold after conservatives launched a petition drive to repeal it in a voter referendum. In every state to which it has been put to a popular vote, Gay Marriage has now lost every time. That amounts to 31. This includes liberal enclaves such as California, where Proposition 8 last year amended the state Constitution to define Marriage as solely between a man and a...

Same-Sex Marriage Is Put to a Vote in Maine: PHOTO
Gay Marriage was put to a vote in Maine on Tuesday in a closely watched referendum that Gay-rights activists across the country hoped would prove that public opinion is turning in their favor.

Maine voters nix same-sex marriage
AUGUSTA, Maine, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Supporters of same-sex Marriage say they'll regroup after voters in Maine repealed the state's Gay Marriage law. The ballot measure to overturn the state's same-sex Marriage law collected 53 percent of the vote with 87 percent of precincts reporting, the Bangor Daily News reported Wednesday. "Question 1 (repealing the act) has passed," Frank Schubert, Stand for Marriage Maine campaign manager, announced in Portland. "It has all come together tonight and the...

Maine Votes 'No' on Gay Marriage
The latest battle in the fight over Gay Marriage is taking place today in Maine, where voters are deciding whether a state law that would allow same-sex couples to marry should stand.

Morning News - No Gay Marriage In Maine
Voters in Maine said No Gay Marriage, overturning a new same-sex Marriage law yesterday. The campaign to overturn the law was a little divisive -- people

Defeat in Maine a harsh blow to gay-marriage drive: PHOTO
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Maine Defeat a Blow to Gay-Marriage: PHOTO
The stars seemed aligned for supporters of Gay Marriage. They had Maine's Governor, legislative leaders and major Newspapers on their side, plus a huge edge in campaign funding. So losing a landmark referendum was a devastating blow, for activists in Maine and nationwide. In an election that had been billed for weeks as too close to call, Maine's often unpredictable voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed. Gay Marriage has now lost in all 31 states in...

Maine Gay Marriage: PHOTO
Maine repeals Gay Marriages. Maine is probably the 6th state where Gay Marriages have been allowed but the locals have repealed the law according to which Gay

Maine Defeat a Blow to Gay-Marriage: PHOTO
The stars seemed aligned for supporters of Gay Marriage. They had Maine's Governor, legislative leaders and major Newspapers on their side, plus a huge edge in campaign funding. So losing a landmark referendum was a devastating blow, for activists in Maine and nationwide. In an election that had been billed for weeks as too close to call, Maine's often unpredictable voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed. Gay Marriage has now lost in all 31 states in...

Maine voters reject gay-marriage law: PHOTO
Maine voters reject same-sex Marriage law; heartbreaking loss for Gay Rights activists

Maine voters latest to turn down gay marriage: PHOTO
PORTLAND, Maine, Nov 4

Gay marriage rejected in Maine: PHOTO
In a mild surprise, a measure that would have legalized Gay Marriage in Maine has lost by about five and a half points .

Defeat in Maine harsh blow to gay-marriage drive: PHOTO
Friends console one another after learning about the unofficial defeat on Question 1 at election night headquarters in Portland, Maine, early Wednesday morning, Nov. 4, 2009. Maine voters decided decide to rescind the Legislature's approval of same-sex Marriage.(AP Photo/Pat Wellenbach) The stars seemed aligned for supporters of Gay Marriage. They had Maine’s Governor, legislative leaders and major Newspapers on their side, plus a huge edge in campaign funding. So losing a landmark...

maine gay marriage banned: PHOTO
ooh people are pissed off! I am an open-minded person so why the hell would people ban Gay Marriage? I thought we lived in an Equal Oppertunity State?? This isn't the 1950's, this is 2009... grow up people.

Defeat in Maine a harsh blow to gay-marriage drive: PHOTO
The stars seemed aligned for supporters of Gay Marriage. They had Maine's Governor, legislative leaders and major Newspapers on their side, plus a huge edge in campaign funding. So losing a landmark referendum was a devastating blow, for activists in Maine and nationwide.

Maine Rejects Gay Marriage: PHOTO
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine voters repealed a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the Gay Rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in New England, the corner of the country most supportive of Gay Marriage. Gay Marriage has now lost in every single state — 31 in all — in which it has been put to a popular vote. Gay-rights activists had hoped to buck that trend in Maine — known for its moderate, independent-minded electorate —...

Cheers and Jeers: Wednesday
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... Postscript "Please, sir, may I have another?" The lesson we learned last night in Maine is pretty simple: if you want to deny the right of Gay people to get married, just put it to a popular vote. Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut---I believe they'd all vote it down, too, if given the opportunity. Let's not kid ourselves...this is Gay Marriage . And to well over half the people in this country in late 2009, you might as well call it pig vomit. No minds...

Why Maine rejected gay marriage
The people of Maine narrowly voted to repeal a law allowing Gay Marriage, making Maine the 31st state to reject same-sex Marriage at the ballot box. (Five states have legalized

Maine Gay Marriage Law Repealed
The tide of extending Marriage rights to same-sex couples -- which has swept across New England in recent months -- has stopped at Maine. Voters rejected a state law Tuesday that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed. The repeal comes just six months after the measure was passed by the Maine legislature and signed by the Democratic Gov. John Baldacci. Maine would have been the sixth state in the country to allow Gay and Lesbian couples to marry, but instead becomes the 31st state to oppose...

Maine voters reject gay-marriage law
Voters in the northeastern state of Maine repealed a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to wed, dealing the Gay Rights movement a heartbreaking defeat in the corner of the country most supportive of Gay Marriage.