Given all the attention paid to the election results in Virginia and New Jersey, it was easy to miss if you weren't paying attention, but voters in Maine comfortably passed a referendum overturning their state legislature's recent enactment of a gay marriage law in that state [2].
After the law legalizing gay marriage was passed and signed by their governor this past summer, conservatives got organized and initiated a petition to get what amounts to a "citizen's veto" put on the ballot, which allows the public to overrule laws passed by the legislature. (Imagine have that option on things passed in DC!)
After being outspent almost two to one, to say nothing of having to fight against the mainstream media as well, traditional marriage supporters came out on top and passed the referendum by approximately 53% to 47%.
This was special for a few reasons.
First, it was the first time that voters have been able to overturn gay marriage in a state where it was put in place by a state legislature, (as opposed to the usual suspects of liberal judges).
Second, it continues the unbroken string of thirty-one victories in a row where traditional marriage has been on the ballot. In fact, voters in no state whatsoever have ever approved gay marriage when they were given the option.
Which should give a little pause to the liberal Democrats in Washington with designs on overturning the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
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