Comments on: Maine GOP Goes Gay-Hating For Early Voting Law http://lezgetreal.com/2011/11/maine-gop-goes-gay-hating-for-early-voting-law/ an LGBTA view from the Emerald Mountains Fri, 24 May 2013 07:21:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Bridgette P. LaVictoire http://lezgetreal.com/2011/11/maine-gop-goes-gay-hating-for-early-voting-law/comment-page-1/#comment-202181 Bridgette P. LaVictoire Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:06:40 +0000 http://lezgetreal.com/?p=95545#comment-202181 My apology on that one. I was the one advising the author on that story and got a bit confused.- BPL.

]]> By: Tina Wood http://lezgetreal.com/2011/11/maine-gop-goes-gay-hating-for-early-voting-law/comment-page-1/#comment-202180 Tina Wood Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:03:09 +0000 http://lezgetreal.com/?p=95545#comment-202180 Correction: Maine does not have civil unions. They have a domestic partnership law that allows a very small number of specific rights. Read down in this document for the details:

http://www.glad.org/rights/maine/c/family-law-in-maine/

It’s important to make this distinction because our enemies like to deliberately confuse the issue. If the low-information voters in the mushy middle think that Mainers in same-sex partnerships already have most rights, they are less likely to support marriage equality. The haters did try to confuse that issue during the referendum campaign in 2009 (it wasn’t the only thing they did, but it was one of them.)

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