Dammit!

"Mainers vote down gay marriage law".

I'm embarrassed to be a Mainer right now.

I'm embarrassed that fiercely independent Maine let a bunch of people from away come in to our state and use fear tactics to take rights away from a group of people.

C'mon we know better than that! We're supposed to be about equality.

Who really thinks that "gay" is going to be taught in school? I want a show of hands.

Even our Roman Catholic governor, John Baldacci, had it right when he signed the law last summer.

"It's important to have your own faith and connection to God," he said in an interview in his statehouse office. "At the same time, it isn't just that faith you're the governor of. ...You're governor of all the people."

"I was creating a second-class marriage for certain people, which wasn't right," he said. "I wasn't doing my duty to the constitution I swore to uphold."

Well, apparently 53% of the voters in Maine think gays are second class citizens.

We used to be a slogan in Maine ("As Maine goes, so goes the nation") which became a joke after we were one of two states to not vote for FDR in the Great Depression.

How often do you think we're going to see that phrase today?

Dammit.