Marriage Equality Bill Hearings in Maine Today - WATCH
Hearings before the Judiciary Committee on a domestic partner bill (LD1118), and Maine's marriage equality bill (LD 1120) begin at 9am today at the Augusta Civic Center. Hundreds are expected to attend.
A new poll shows Mainers divided on the issue, according to the Bangor Daily News:
"The poll, conducted by a Portland-based firm earlier this month, showed that 47.3 percent of those surveyed support changing Maine statutes to allow marriage licenses to be issued to any two people regardless of their sex while 49.5 percent oppose it. The rest of the Maine residents polled hadn’t made up their minds on the issue. The poll has a margin of error rate of 4.9 percent...The polling firm compared data from a similar poll on the same subject in March 2004. Since then, support for same-sex marriage has increased 9 percent while support for same sex unions has risen just 1 percent."
BDN has more analysis of the poll specifics.
The marriage bill has 64 co-sponsors. Read the full text HERE.
Watch a live stream of the hearings, AFTER THE JUMP...
Posted Apr. 22,2009 at 8:30 AM EST by Andy Towle in Gay Marriage, Maine, News | Permalink
I can't believe it is here.
Also, the Portland Press Herald has someone on Twitter doing live updates. http://twitter.com/PPHNewsNow
Posted by: B. Wash | Apr 22, 2009 8:58:41 AM
Supporters of marriage equality are wearing red.
Posted by: Nick | Apr 22, 2009 9:16:12 AM
WOW they just panned the arena and as i understand it the Supporters are wearing RED which definitely make them the majority in there!!
Posted by: alex in boston | Apr 22, 2009 10:24:33 AM
Notice how the bigots use the terms "Gay Marriage". They NEVER use the term "Marriage" nor "Marriage Equality". Gay Americans should not use these terms.
Posted by: Sargon Bighorn | Apr 22, 2009 11:59:41 AM
Am I the only one having a problem with the live feed continually falling off?
anyone have an alternate feed?
Posted by: BoxerDad | Apr 22, 2009 12:08:29 PM
Wow this feed is really crappy, what's going on?
Posted by: Sargon Bighorn | Apr 22, 2009 12:08:43 PM
Shame on the catholic bishop of Maine calling gay families a threat to their old-world marriage - what a sad sorry excuse he is. One day he's going to be rightly ashamed of himself. I hope its soon.
Posted by: Grego | Apr 22, 2009 12:44:46 PM
Answering my own question... this feed seems to be working better, so far:
http://files.mainecampus.com/live-stream.php
Posted by: BoxerDad | Apr 22, 2009 1:08:52 PM
Here's a link for just the audio (more reliable) http://www.maine.gov/legis/audio/civic_ctr_apr.html
Posted by: Nick | Apr 22, 2009 1:52:52 PM
oh wow, the fire alarms just went off.
Posted by: Philster | Apr 22, 2009 5:22:38 PM