Rather, the state's gay-marriage opponents have moved beyond social issues to criticize Lynch and the state's two-year, $11.5 billion budget. (In comparison, Maine's latest biennial budget is only $5.8 billion and cuts spending.) And though the GOP is suffering nationally under the weight of sex scandals and Sarah Palin, New Hampshire Republicans are rebounding under the party leadership of former governor John H. Sununu.
Meanwhile, the University of New Hampshire Survey Center reports that Lynch's approval ratings are on the decline, perhaps putting same-sex marriage at risk only months after it was enacted.
Smith says CPR-Action is now making "a deliberate attempt" to support conservative candidates through a newly formed PAC and by getting involved with special elections.
"Our option right now at this point really is getting a new legislature and a new governor in there to repeal the legislation," he says, adding, "I believe this is a winning issue for us."
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Winning marriage in Maine, Crossing the line, Continuing homophobia, More 
- Winning marriage in Maine
Three years ago, after winning non-discrimination protections for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals, we began a journey to win protections for LGBT families. We knew our best chance for winning marriage was through the Legislature and that once we passed a bill, we would have to defend it at the polls.
- Crossing the line
When an increasingly conservative newspaper company fires an already publicly conservative employee for apparently offending a liberal interest group, it leaves some people scratching their heads.
- Continuing homophobia
Deirdre Fulton's and Shay Stewart-Bouley's comments and Seth Berner's letter on the Marriage Equality Act repeal are insightful. I would add another perspective.
- Objecting to marriage control
“The Emperor is wearing no clothes” on both sides of the marriage war.
- Fair Share?
On September 10, Boston City Councilor David Scondras wrote a letter to the city’s group-health-insurance director. “We have a non-discrimination policy in this city which includes people who are gay and lesbian,” wrote the city’s first openly gay city councilor.
- State House status
Rhode Island voters, for all their supposed insularity, are an increasingly progressive bunch.
- Just the beginning
More than a few people asked us why we are publishing this special section now — now that gay-marriage opponents have filed their People's Veto signatures, now that same-sex marriages will not be taking place at least until after Mainers vote on the issue on November 3.
- Numbers game
If you take a close look at the latest polls, you will find that supporters and opponents of November's same-sex marriage referendum question are locked in a neck-and-neck battle.
- After the Question 1 vote
Last Tuesday, Maine became the 31st state to put same-sex marriage to a public vote — and to have it lose.
- Saying their ‘I don’ts’
In case it slipped by one or two of you out there, Maine is a pretty homogenized state overall, even more so than a carton of Oakhurst or Hood milk.
- Play-by-play
On the front lines at the gay-marriage hearing
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