You Can't Get Married He-ah If You're Quee-ah. November 5, 2009 2:52 PM | permalink

In another stunning victory for people who like to make laws about things that don't affect them all, Maine has narrowly passed a referendum overturning the law that legalized gay marriage in that state. 

I mention this because the News Pulse feature (pictured) on CNN.com shows that while it was a popular story, more than twice the number of people decided instead to read a story about Dolly Parton and Jessica Simpson twittering about their boobs. If you want to interpret this as an abject lesson about the wisdom of straight up-and-down, issue-based ballot initiatives, you probably could, but why press it?

In case you didn't read the Maine article, it did include one exceptionally dumb quote:

Scott Fish, a spokesman for Stand for Marriage Maine, said the campaign had never been anti-gay.  "The campaign was very clear about that," he said by phone Wednesday. "This was a campaign about protecting traditional marriage."

C'mon now, Scott.

If this campaign isn't anti-gay, than what are you protecting traditional marriage from? Bears?  If this is the case, I'm sorry, because I know there are a ton of bears in Maine and if they are getting into wedding ceremonies and causing damage, something definitely needs to be done.

If this law was all about allowing you to shoot any bear that entered into an area where a wedding was taking place, I'd be all for it. I had a traditional wedding, and so did my gay cousin who was married in Maine, and at neither event was anyone attacked by a bear.

But, I haven't been back to Maine in a long time, and if bears are regularly showing up at weddings, mauling guests and burrowing their wet snouts deep into meticulously prepared wedding cakes, I would be fully behind your measure. 

But even then, I wouldn't be dumb enough to tell people it wasn't anti-bear.

Comments

[MMCQuarterback]

I have long thought that there are other things that need this kind of "protection." For example, being a New Englander myself, I am in favor of a Constitutional Amendment defining "chowder" as having a cream base. Tomato-based soups are a threat to the traditional definition of chowder!

But I'm not anti-tomato.

[wittyariesbanter]

Thank you. Its a relief knowing that at least there are some people that understand what a country based on freedom is supposed to be about.