With 98 percent of precincts reporting in Maine, opponents of gay marriage had 53 percent of the vote in a referendum that asked Maine voters whether they wanted to repeal a law allowing same-sex marriage that had passed the Legislature and was signed by Democratic Gov. John Baldacci. The defeat for gay activists came in a corner of the country considered most sympathetic to their cause. Fox News reports that "gay marriage has now lost in every single state -- 31 in all -- in which it has been put to a popular vote." It also "marked the first time voters had rejected a gay-marriage law enacted by a legislature."
The following is an example of an ad that the voices in favor of mantaining the traditional definition of marriage ran in Maine:
Fox News also reports that another measure in Maine "which easily won approval, will allow dispensaries to supply marijuana to patients for medicinal purposes. It is a follow-up to a 1999 measure that legalized medical marijuana but did not set up a distribution system."
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