Same sex marriage goes to the ballot box in Maine
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Maine families often gather around the local hockey rink like Californians cluster around the youth soccer pitch. Mike Goyette, a commercial fisherman, opposes same sex marriage because of his religious beliefs. But his partner, Jessica Libby favors them.

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Maine families often gather around the local hockey rink like Californians cluster around the youth soccer pitch. Mike Goyette, a commercial fisherman, opposes same sex marriage because of his religious beliefs. But his partner, Jessica Libby favors them.
In Maine, the hockey rink is a parental gathering point just like soccer pitches are in California. Here, Lisa Lauzier and Jeff Buiniskas watch their nine-year-old son practice at the Androscoggin Bank Colisée in Lewiston. She supports same sex marriage, he is leaning towards it. Buiniskas bought their son a new stick today. He is holding his old one.
Compared to California's contentious Proposition 8 campaign in 2008, there are relatively few signs in Maine's same sex marriage debate. Here is a homemade sign on a fence near Bangor.
Roger Tracy, an evangelical Christian pastor who believes that all gays are unhappy because they do not walk in the light of Christ, picks up more Yes on 1 signs from Jean Barry.
The guys who work at Rumery's Boat Yard here Biddeford, ME say there's a lot of other issues concerning folks in this blue collar town where one of the last mills closed this summer. They generally support same sex marraige although some are undecided.
Maine's No on 1 -- which supports same sex marriage -- is trying to learn from the mistakes of California's failed anti-Proposition 8 campaign last year. Here, volunteer phone bankers in Portland -- Seraphina Erhart and Allison Beal -- celebrate after learning that the campaign just recruited double the number of volunteers shifts that they were hoping for in the campaign's last few days.
Demi Gonzalez, in Maine on a "volunteer vacation" from Riverside, CA, calls students at Bates College in Lewiston, ME. She supports No on 1, the pro-same sex measure on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Rialto (Riverside County) resident -- and same sex marriage supporter and volunteer vacationer -- Gabe Gonzalez (right, with hat) escorts two Bates College students Gardiner Nardini and Hunter Archibald to vote early at Lewiston City Hall in Maine.
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