Dejection after gay marriage vote
Submitted by jennifer on Wed, 2009-11-04 08:54
Supporters of same-sex marriage are vowing to continue the fight, after voters in Maine voted to repeal a law allowing such unions.
With 87 percent of precincts reporting, gay-marriage foes have 53 percent of the vote. The referendum had asked Maine voters whether they wanted to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage that had passed the Legislature and was signed by Gov. John Baldacci.
For the gay rights movement it was a stinging defeat. Gay marriage has now lost in every state -- 31 in all -- in which it has been put to a popular vote.
