MAINE: Gay rights repeal set for defeat? Maybe.

The fourth time is the charm? Maine's human rights law is a broad civil rights statute which includes sexual orientation as a category. Maine's legislature has passed legislation to prohibit discrimination based upon sexual orientation (and other categories) numerous times. Each time, heterosexual supremacists have placed repeal measures on the ballot. There's currently another heated public policy debate going on about the necessity and utility of civil rights protections for LGBT people in the State of Maine. Usually the measures poll positively (for the gay rights side) in the days and weeks before the election but the final results have not been in our favor in the three previous statewide ballot battles over gay rights in Maine.