We’re all homophobic bigots now

Voters in Maine went to the polls yesterday and repealed the state’s law allowing same-sex marriage. 

Same-sex ballot initiatives are now 0 for 31 across the country—31 states came up to the plate and 31 went down.  All by taking the question to their citizens, who have decisively denied all of thim.  

The angry left tells us why this is:

…[T]here’s Maine where hate prevailed. The Bishop of Maine, Richard Malone, must be quite pleased with himself. He ran a campaign of lies, hate and distortions — and convinced enough Maine voters to vote with him. It’s going to take me a couple days (or more) to get my head around this one. But, for now, suffice it so say: HATE was the winner in Maine. Hate and the Catholic Bishop.

That’s right.   People who don’t support gay marriage are,  by default, filled with hate.  And then there’s the Catholic church.

For those of us with a modicum of sanity, the real reason that the initiative failed was that a majority of Maine’s citizens just didn’t approve.  It’s that simple:

This was the real battlefield where No on 1 lost. These voters – and their cousins in other counties – are not “back country hicks” – even though some areas of those counties are remote.

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In other words, many of them work white collar jobs, live in mostly nice neighborhoods within striking distance of a city, and are pliable for whichever side makes the better case. We are not talking about culturally conservative “Deliverance” type areas here – this is the home of Maine’s soccer moms.

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This fight was lost among the middle class voters of “middle Maine”, and it was lost badly.

So, the people of Maine have spoken, democracy is at work.  Ordinary, middle-class Americans took to the polls to make their voices heard.  But that doesn’t stop extremists from engaging in their own versions of reality and vilifying institutions like the Catholic church.

Say what you want about the role of the church—its doctrine is what it is.  But at what point does the left realize that not everyone is a hate-filled bigot and that maybe the resistance to same-sex marriage goes much, much further than a fringe minority.  The score is 0-31, after all.