Maine Voters Overturn Gay Marriage Law, With Gay Marriage Now Having Failed In All 31 States In Which It Has Been Put To Popular Vote

With 98 percent of precincts reporting in Maine, opponents of gay marriage had 53 percent of the vote in a referendum that asked Maine voters whether they wanted to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage that had passed the Legislature and was signed by Democratic Gov. John Baldacci. The defeat for gay activists came in a corner of the country considered most sympathetic to their cause. Fox News reports that "gay marriage has now lost in every single state -- 31 in all -- in which it has been put to a popular vote." It also "marked the first time voters had rejected a gay-marriage law enacted by a legislature."

The following is an example of an ad that the voices in favor of mantaining the traditional definition of marriage ran in Maine:


Fox News also reports that another measure in Maine "which easily won approval, will allow dispensaries to supply marijuana to patients for medicinal purposes. It is a follow-up to a 1999 measure that legalized medical marijuana but did not set up a distribution system."
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