Opponents of same-sex marriage lead Maine vote
Voters in Maine on Tuesday overturned a law allowing same-sex couples to wed, dealing a fresh setback to the U.S. gay marriage movement in a race that attracted national attention. Full Story »
Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV - via Reuters
The civil rights battles of the 50s and 60s were marrred by electorial defeat but judicial intervention, conversely it appears that the "everything but marriage" referendum in Washington will pass in spite of the ultra conservatives in the Eastern part of that state.