Wonkette
Whoa hey gay marriage in Maine now too! While both chambers of the Maine legislature had passed the bill, no one knew if Gov. John Baldacci would sign it because, you know, gays, culture war, wedge issues, etc. But then this morning he did sign it! He explained: “In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions. I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage.” And that’s about all there is to say. [HuffPo]
Somewhere Rev. Fred Phelps is crying.
The gaypocalypse is upon us! Huzzah!
Maine, the new San Francisco.
It’s always been gay.
Maine always did look a little gay, all curled up against Canada like that.
Oh noes. Insane redneck warbler Lisa Mei will not be pleased, at all. TEH GHEY IZ EVERYWHERES.
Maine will be due for a hurricane, earthquake, famine, viral pandemic, terrorist attack, or some horrible act of an angry wrathful god in 3….2…..1
Well, at least now we’ll know who to blame for that late spring Nor’easter that’ll surely kill us all here in the far east, won’t we Dr. Dobson?
Scarab: No, his boner just got fucking HUGE!!!
Gay people and wedge issues, indeed.
I’m Harvey Milk and I want to recruit you.
http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Milk/milk_movie_image_sean_penn_as_gay_rights_icon_harvey_milk.jpg
Maine - the new California? Or should I say, the new Iowa?
Hooray for the gays! Now in Maine, you can be as miserable as everyone else!
The storm is coming, and I’m scared.
Ms. California and her fake boobs are far more immoral than Adam and Steve’s long term commitment.
But will there be butt seks?
sati demise: Having been to Bar Harbor, I can attest that some people were camped out there waiting for this.
And Gov. Baldacci’s statement is about the most reasonable thing I’ve read on this issue, period. He’d have a bright future in national politics if he wasn’t the governor of Maine.
RoscoePColtraine: D’oh!
Christians! Emergency Plan Omega One is in effect! Cover your heads and subsidized breast implants with aluminum foil and immediately head for the rendezvous point in Wasilla.
The sphincters of America’s youth are ours at last!!1!
Just yay. Yay yay yay.
and sort of OT, but it shows how inane religious impositions of celibacy are (with bonus points for the priest’s name):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/05/AR2009050503230.html?hpid=sec-religion
As a born and raised Mainer, I, for one, can’t wait to see my hillbilly extended family back home this summer.
Cannot wait.
Still can’t tell if that picture is of a male or female couple. But it doesn’t matter because, kitties!
Can’t wait for Bravo show “Sodomy, She Wrote” set in Corn-holer Cove- famous romance novelist solves weekly mystery of who’s hiding the sausage– wicked queers!
It’s a pandemic! Well, a pandemic of civil liberties…breaking out…you know…all over. Never mind.
StephanieInCA:
For the life of me, I have never understood where this right-wing paranoia is coming from. The federal government is going after vets? They’re trying to control your lives? What?
Prommie: At least amongst the Log Cabiners.
Doglessliberal: If he had just stuck to altar boys and kept it off the beach..
THE MAINE GAY FLU IS UPON US!!!
When WASN’T Maine gay? Have you ever read Steven King? His books are dripping in gay-ness.
So, is Justice Souter moving his unibomber cabin to Maine, then?
Who knew there would be such a sea change in such a few years? Perhaps Barry really is the Magic Negro, whose touch cures impotence or crabs or whatever.
Great, now I’ll never be able to afford a vacation home on the coast.
An American in Toronto: Sounds like good times, yea, good time for all.
lucky you!
x111e7thst: exactly. Messing with those damn women will get you every time. Evil temptresses.
The Freepers are freeping each other about this…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2245437/posts
NotthatLC: Yeah, I could never understand their carrying on about how it was all a threat to the “sanctity of marriage,” whatever the hell that is.
Anyway, I’m all for it. And the sooner gay marriage is legal in all 50 states, the better.
This explains Larry and his brother Darryl and his other brother Darryl.
Bearbloke: ‘Freeping’ reminds me of crickets, somehow: “the sound of Freepers freeping in the woodwork”
Bearbloke: It really is amazing how much energy so many people expend on discussing what other people do in their bedrooms.
New Hampshire is next, then all of New England will be gay… We don’t realy count the District of Rhode Island.
NotthatLC: right-wing paranoia .
Well, since they have no policies to address our current problems, in fact their “ideological purity” precludes getting involved in the business of running the country so all things considered, it actually makes a lot of sense to run in circles screaming the sky is falling, otherwise somebody might ask them what we should do and that, for the Republicans, would be a disaster.
Better to open your mouth and convince people your paranoid than keep it closed and get marked as a fool.
Bearbloke:
The problem is that they pray at church on Sunday’s but isn’t that Jeebus’ day off?
You can get gay married in 5 states now. But where can I legally pot smoke?
me love lipstick-lesbos.
Paterlanger: I love you.
Doglessliberal: It’s of great concern because the government should stay out of our lives and our homes and not tell us how to live! Except in matters of fucking and reproducing; that’s where the government needs complete and total control. But not healthcare, which is not as important as teh buttsecks.
To be fair, Washington State is also gay, we just haven’t come out yet.
chascates: Airfare to Amsterdam is pretty cheap these days but I always thought the illegal made the drugs sweeter somehow.
chascates: Frisco… almost…
chascates: That reverse-racist mustachioed charlatan Holder is working on it. I plan on having a pot cake at my gay wedding.
I only worry whether gay Mormons will posthumously gay marry us non-gays, and also make Saints out of us. Because I don’t want to be a dead gay Mormon Saint!
5 out of 50 ….. We’re getting there!
Excuse me, I’m now going to go do a little gay victory dance in my neo-con co-worker’s office. I hope he’s not packing heat today.
The Rev. Yevot: Haha. I beat you.
BadKitty: If by heat, you mean one of those handgun-shaped buttplugs… I’d give it a 50/50,,,
Can’t wait for the Catholic Church up here to gear up their people’s veto referendum drive / PR blitz telling people that homosexuality is fine as long as its bottled up and repressed until it explodes all over the dresses they make the alter boys wear.
gayuh
chascates: Boston? Denver? (if you have teh bucks for a fine) Amsterdam?
We approved it here in Aztlan, but then we didn’t. We were for teh gey marriage before we (by which I mean, “The Church of Jeebus Christ of the Latter Day Saints” and all their moniez) were against it.
BadKitty: A neo-con who’s not packing ordnance? Come on, that just doesn’t happen.
I’m gonna corner the market in freeze-resistant lube!
x111e7thst: ah yes, the sweet smell of fingerprinting ink. memories……
RoscoePColtraine: Acknowledged The Rev. Yevot:
I bow before your quicker “return” hitting finger–but don’t get any ideas; now that gay marriage is legal in some U.S. states, I’m not having anymore gay secks until I get a gay wedding ring.
Because Canada wasn’t gay enough.
Advocatus_Diaboli: win
We used to go on vacation in far northeastern Maine (major sticks, no fancypants Kennebunkport for us) every year, and I had never heard accents like those. They are Boston x 100.
TGY: He just fixed the Libor too. Also.
AnnieGetYourFun: healthcare is only important to the wingers if you are a brain dead vegetable who wants to die.
Otherwise, eat shit and die, suckers.
sati demise: I feel that the time I spent as a guest of Nassau County made me the man I am today.
Big Love, Big Love, Big Love…
And there are those fucking cats on the cake again. My Kitteh would EATS them.
V572625694: how about a liberal, vegetarian, Obama supporting, gay marriage advocating, city-dwelling, organic-argula-eating, hand- and shotgun owner who can shoot bullseye on a target with ease? I love to confound stereoypes.
Bearbloke: Interestingly, one of them said that allowing gay marriage is an assault on liberty.
How can a person write that, think it makes sense, and then click ‘Send’?
The Rev. Yevot: Unintended consequences?
Will teh gay now start dumping their ‘first’ for a trade in on a younger model too?
Tawk: altar boy, altar boy
is it gonna be heaven or hell
you can play my organ all night long
if you promise never to tell
sati demise: of course, because as we know, the Republicans are the party of the people. They care for us, unlike the effete liberal Dems:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/05/limbaugh-mocks-recession/
magic titty: I cannot even come up with a bad explanation of that statement. My mind doesn’t bend that much, I guess.
Bearbloke: Gee Wally, those Freepers are a creative lot… “How do you find a wedding ring in the fudge?” “Great. 32 states couldn’t legalize abortion, but five are okay with brown stinky holes.” Did Freep get taken over by a bunch of sugared-up three year olds?
Doglessliberal: I love it. Next: Kentucky!
Doglessliberal: Okay by me. But are you a neo-con?
x111e7thst: guess you never needed a student loan, amirite?
Ogonquit will be ‘the’ party place this summer.
California, New York, and Illinois are getting shown up by Maine, Vermont, and Iowa? What the Hell is going on?
I’m eagerly waiting for Michele Bachmann to comment on this. I’d love to see her talk about a “Gay Marriage Orgy” without making it sound literal and not figurative.
magic titty: It’s the same way desegration was an assault on liberty, as in, I should have the LIBERTY to kick negruhs out of my diner.
V572625694: bwahhahahahahahahahaa
not even close. I might hold some truly conservative, in the way that word used to be meant, opinions about a few things (though I am not coming up with any at the moment), but I would die before I could agree with an intellectually dishonest neocon pigwhore.
Eat it, New Hampshire! Maine is better than you in every conceivable way!
We’re fixin to bag Olympia Snowe too. This is so lovely.
The Repubs continue to double-down on gay marriage and abortion, and continue to howl about creeping socialism (in a devastating recession). Since both strategies worked out so well last November, why not keep trying them? Its like those videos of 50s psychology experiments where the brain-damaged rat keeps stepping on the electrified plate.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Well, because we all know that marriage is about sex, right? You get married so that you can have sex. Good, now I got it.
thejesusandmarycheney: also, i have the LIBERTY to spell “desegregation” however I want.
My mom’s first girlfriend was from Maine. I wish I still had her phone number.
Hey, if you love lumberjack dykes in the Brunswick area…
Pssh, all these states wanting to be fabulous like Iowa.
From “GOP Party Animal:”
“iTS useless…people are brainwashed and continue to celebrate DIVERSITY!!! THE BACK DOOR TO GAY, LESBIAN,TRANSGENDER TAKE OVER….AMERICA HAS BEEN ASLEEP AND NOW DRUGGED ON LIBRALISM….WE ARE DOOMED.”
Help, I went to freeperville, need libtard snark stat!
RoscoePColtraine: I thought getting married was all about not having sex. Mind you, prezzies!
Huzzah! Buttseks all around! [clasps hands; pats backs]
freakishlystrong: what the fuck does this person think gays, lesbians, and transgenders will DO if they “take over”? Do they have some monolithic agenda? Will they round up straights and inter themin camps? This is just so bizarre.
Bearbloke: I love that it’s tagged “homosexualagenda.”
And the threats of civil war are always amusing.
Bearbloke: Best comment over there is the guy who “explains” to his (alleged) wife that gay marriage is wrong because “marriage is a contract between the couple and society”. Yep that sure does wrap it up there, genius.
Doglessliberal: I especially liked the touch, “BACK DOOR11!” in an anti-diversity?, (diversity is the gateway drug?), rant. I’m 1,000% sure they didn’t get the irony…
AnnieGetYourFun: “Haven’t come out yet” as in “I’m worried about upsetting my Mom who is a good person basically but also a bit of a christianist” or “Haven’t come out yet” as in “snagging congressional pages is like shootin’ fish in a barrel”?
Kingbee: Brilliant.
Having lived in Maine for three years, there was no way around that. By the time you got someone out of their parka, twelve sweaters, long underwear and silk underwear to find out their gender, you were usually married and just had to accept what you got.
AnnieGetYourFun:
And we get to look forward to our Holy War on the “Everything But Marriage” Act this fall. You have to love our “Christians” here, As nutty as the South’s, but rarely does anyone really listen to them, at least assuming you actually live within 1 mile of anyone else.
freakishlystrong: there is a terrifyingly small number of people these days who actually know what irony is, let alone recognize it. We need a bring back irony movement.
Advocatus_Diaboli: Nicely done.
I wish I could embed a Dolores Claiborne clip. (the one with “Listen here, Mr. Grand High Pubah of Upper-Butt-Crack: I’m about half past give-a-shit with your fun and games”)
Viva Irony! The theme song could be “Isn’t it Ironic?” Except flies in chardonnay and shit, are not ironic.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Being a native Mainer currently expatriated, I can’t stop laughing at your comment. Thank you.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Nope they have ALWAYS been a bunch of sugared up 3 year olds.
….I bet Rachel Maddow will be eating this up on MSNBC tonight. (no pun intended, okay well maybe a little intended)
haterz in maine haz a sad …
i predict large increase in allen’s coffee brandy sales to shut out the illicit thoughts of legally sanctified but wanton but-sechs.
Maine name for coffee brandy: “fat ass in a glass.”
Doglessliberal: bingo. that is exactly what the wingers think about teh gay.
they WILL force your chilluns to be gay since they caint have their own babies on account o’ teh buttsecs
sati demise: sort of like the Shakers. You need to recuit or die out.
freakishlystrong: OF COURSE ITS TEH BACK DOOR–THEY’RE GAY!!! THEY WANT TO VIOLATE THE ‘BACK DOOR’ ON EVERY FREEDUM LOVIN MERIKAN!!!!1!! WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!!!1!!11!!
Does that help?
Doglessliberal: recRuit, sheesh.
Doglessliberal: Wait, Fr. Cutie is doin it rong! The object of his affection is supposed to be a nubile 11-year-old altar boy, not an adult woman!
Look at a map and tell me Maine is not pointing at exactly the correct upward angle.
President Beeblebrox: And this is why he is in trouble. If he had stuck with the rules, the Pope says that is OK, right?
freakishlystrong: I went to Freeperville, too, for the first time in ages.
Still as nutty as a nest of cuckoos. All those ‘back door, cram down, forcing down our throats’ comments do make me wonder if it is all performance art, though.
I read the freeper thread as well. Among other things, the posters over there seem to be fixated on MALE same-sex couplings, don’t they?
What about the WOMENS? Can’t they help destroy all that is decent and holy too? While I watch?
LittlePig: I hate to harsh your mellow, but it’s not, half my damn fambly, (teh stoopid half), posts there….they actually say that shit out loud.
Maine? How about the entire Northeast under the gay spell of doom!
http://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/2009/05/forget-swine-flu-gay-marriage-virus.html
FlamingSooner: what! womens can have the gay sex? but what do they put in their buttholes?
cranky: Mongeese.
Doglessliberal: whew, what a relief, i was worried they would try to stuff a whole cat up there.
Unfortunately, the law doesn’t take effect until 90 days after the end of the current legislative session in June…so the Boyfriend and I will not be able to get hitched during our annual pilgrimage there this July.
Bearbloke: The Freepers…
wow. planning boycotts of LL Bean and all sorts of stuff. a few in ALL CAPS, so you know how upset they are.
Cranky and Dogless, let me attempt to explain here (ahem)…
“It’s perfectly normal for WOMEN to have sex with each other….that’s just good porn!”
This I have heard from men in my life whom I do not consider mutants.
I weep.
chascates: Come to Denver. Big 4/20 “protest” in the main park here, where everyone was basically smoking and the cops just hung around and watched.
Wow. First time I ever read those Freepers. I didn’t last very long over there because they scared me. Granted, the wonkeratti are a little over the top but at least funny. Scary isn’t funny.
Civil war, secession, give Maine to Nova Scotia, Oklahoma and Texas seceding, is it just me, or are these people pretty unAmerican?
If Hopey stays popular and any part of the economy improves and we all don’t die, they’re only going to get crazier. A successful black prez is going to make these people even more batshit crazy than usual.
As I said, scary.
thejesusandmarycheney: “That reverse-racist mustachioed charlatan Holder is working on it. I plan on having a pot cake at my gay wedding.”
Will there also be a no-host abortion bar?
I don’t mean to rain on parades, but everyone needs to be careful. Maine has something called a “people’s veto” to get a referendum vote on any legislation passed. Teh Gay Haterz successfully put civil rights for gays to referendum vote in 1998 and WON. Then it went up AGAIN in 2004 and got defeated. So, it was finally illegal to deny a job, apartment , mortgage loan, etc to a gay person because he/she was gay. Before that, my colleagues in education lived in fear of their jobs. FUCKED UP. So, the crazy anti-Jesus hateful hick bumfuck asshole motherfucker Conservative Christians of western, northern and central Maine can be relentless. In 2004 I saw a full page ad in my local weekly paper, when I lived in a particularly secluded area, from some bullshit named “Maine Family Coalition” saying that if we voted to give civil rights to gays, the next thing that would happen is all elementary school children would have to march in Gay Pride parades. I am not fucking kidding. So, while I’m quite happy with my beloved old home, I’m still holding my breath.
Bearbloke: Don’t fucking call it Frisco!!! Please?
Winsome: i love calling S.F. “frisco” not just for the hep cat factor but because it drives “friscans” looney. i’ll stop because you said please (and most people don’t know i’m foolin’ and think i’m a dick).
Lionel Hutz Esq.: Wow, you’ve been there 3 whole years huh. If that’s true then you should have noticed the whole spring, summer, and fall seasons when Mainers dont wear parkas.
We don’t even call them parkas. I wouldn’t be surprised if many Mainers didn’t what a frickahn parkah whas, I’m tellin you..
MrsNateSilver: “western, northern, and central Maine”.. I think you forgot eastern and southern Maine. There are conservative Mainers all over the state, however, there are a significant younger generation that are not as politically conservative though they may be conservative in practice.
Hart88: dont worry, even Mainers cant afford our own coastal property