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# One for Two
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/2972/
- Published: 2005-11-09T15:31:30.000Z
- Updated: 2005-11-09T15:31:30.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Politics, #wpChunk

[Texas banned same-sex marriage and Maine turned down efforts to repeal homosexual civil rights legislation](http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/09/ap/politics/mainD8DOQQG04.shtml?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). I'd say the Texas victory is bigger than the Maine defeat, since Texas dealt with marriage, not general civil rights.

> Texas voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, making their state the 19th to take that step. In Maine, however, voters rejected a conservative-backed proposal to repeal the state's new gay-rights law.

> The contest in Texas was lopsided; near-complete returns showed the gay-marriage ban supported by about 76 percent of voters. Like every other state except Massachusetts, Texas didn't permit same-sex marriages previously, but the constitutional amendment was touted as an extra guard against future court rulings. . .

> In Maine, voters spurned a measure placed on the ballot by a church-backed conservative coalition that would have repealed a gay-rights law approved by lawmakers earlier this year. The lawmakers expanded the state's human rights act to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, a step already taken by the five other New England states.

> In near-complete returns, about 55 percent of voters were opposing repeal of the new law, which is broadly worded to protect transsexuals and transvestites as well as gays and lesbians.