Yeah! We Don't Have to Buy Wedding Gifts!

Do you know what is disturbing about the picture below?  This woman in Maine is celebrating what is, at least at the time of this writing, the very real possibility that voters in that state will overturn the law, just ratified in May, granting same-sex couples marriage equality.  If one truly believes that extending marriage rights to gays and lesbians is wrong, then it is easy to see how one would be relieved that efforts to do so are defeated.  But to rejoice in it seems downright mean.
And that is because it is!

A woman celebrates favorible returns on Question 1

A woman rejoices in favorable returns on Question 1 in Maine