Maine is now the 5th state to extend marriage equality to all of its citizens (6th if you count California). That’s 10% of all states and, I’ve been saying that I think 10% is a major turning point. I think marriage equality has gathered enough momentum now that it’s gonna be hard to slow, much less stop.
New Hampshire may well follow suit, and even should the CA Supreme Court uphold Prop 8, another ballot initiative overturning Prop 8 may well be on the ballot as soon as next year (in CA it’s no more difficult to get rid of discrimination in the Constitution than it is to write it in). As more states do it, the bigots lose their number one weapon; fear. They can no longer preach doom and gloom, now they’ll be expected to show how granting equal rights has caused damage, and they will fail, because frankly, it doesn’t. Further, they can’t even keep pushing the activist judge nonsense, because Maine (and perhaps soon New Hampshire) is the second state to legislatively legalize marriage for all it’s citizens.