“The People’s Veto: Why gay marriage failed in Maine”

Sean Higgins writes at the Catholic World Report: ” . . . A Tipping Point . . . the case of Don Mendell. He was a high school guidance counselor who had appeared in one of the ads urging the repeal of the law. Subsequently a school teacher filed an ethics complaint against him based on his appearance in the ad. The state requires guidance counselors to be licensed social workers. The complaint could have cost Mendell his license and therefore his job . . . the pro-repeal side seized on it as proof of how the law could be used to punish people who were publically critical of gay marriage . . . ”

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