‹ A solid Republican performance •
Despite being outspent two-to-one by same-sex marriage supporters, voters in Maine apparently have repealed a law that would have allowed same-sex marriage. The legislature had enacted that law as a result of political pressure and lobbying. But their vote did not represent the views of a majority of Maine residents. Just as voters in California did last November, the people of this moderately liberal state rejected the attempt at radical transformation of the traditional institution of marriage. They continue an uninterrupted string of thirty victories for traditional marriage when the states’ voters have been permitted to speak unencumbered by legislative hurdles and without a short-circuiting of democracy by some unaccountable elite of judicial guardians.
“The facts of life are conservative.” - Margaret Thatcher
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