Once more unto the breach

Last week gay marriage went down in defeat in Maine, 53% to 47%.  I was expecting to feel the same heart rending loss that occurred after the passage of Proposition 8 here in California… Yet I didn’t. This was something on the order of the 33rd straight loss for gay marriage at the ballot box and I think I’ve finally become immune to the impact. There’s no longer shock or dismay when I hear gay rights have lost – merely a weary acceptance of the fact that though we as a society and a community have come so far over the past thirty years we still have far to go.