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So we've got a few calls from people who were wondering why last week's podcast included no rant about what went down in Maine on Election Day,

where voters vetoed through the people's veto, a referendum process in Maine, a gay marriage law that had recently

passed by the legislature and been signed by Maine's governor. Well, it was because we recorded a show

in advance because I was going to be, you know, laid up. It sounds like more fun than it is.

And so we didn't know the results of the vote by the time we were recorded, at the time we recorded last week. So now we know. And now it's a couple weeks later. No one really wants to hear about it anymore. But just quickly and briefly, uh, it really sucks. Doesn't it? Really sucks. Democratic National Committee didn't lift a finger. Barack Obama didn't lift a finger. Matt at them. Matt at the voters in Maine. Some good news, of course, on Election Day.

Voters in Washington State voted to approve the states everything but marriage, domestic

partnership law, and a very similar campaign was waged in Washington State to the one

waged in Maine, arguing why, you know, to protect children and families from gay anal rape assemblies at schools.

It had the law had to be rescinded.

And an openly gay woman was the top vote getter in the run in the race for mayor of Houston, Texas.

A city of North Carolina got its first openly gay male mayor.

And voters in the city of Kalamazoo voted to

approve that city's gay civil rights law. So it was sort of a mixed bag on election day for

all us homos with some good signs and bad signs. Once again, gay marriage is the big trip up.

Large majorities of Americans support gays and lesbians having all the same legal rights

as same-sex couples, but clearly, even to this day, a majority of Americans do not support

gay people having the magic syllables, mayor, edge, which is why we don't typically put

the civil rights of minorities up to a vote.

If we had put interracial marriage on the ballot across the country, when that was declared

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