Some days, there's just not much more I can add. For example...

-- "opposite marriage" spokesbimbo Carrie Prejean, beacon of Christian morality, getting caught out with making a sex tape.  THAT makes me believe in God.

-- the amazing US activist Pam Spaulding's video wrap-up of more testimony from the marriage equality hearings in Washington (the ones that produced this disco ditty).  I'm gonna have nightmares this weekend about the anus lady.

-- in the aftermath of gay rights voted down in Maine, we get an amusing rant from the Justice of the Peace Office, a typically solid defense from Dan Savage and this flashback from the mid-90s "Dana Carvey Show" in which he's joined by Stephen Colbert in a skit that now seems a bit too real:

-- this lengthy commercial for laundry soap in Denmark is meant as the ultimate eye candy for the ladies -- but we like it too!

-- and finally, the creators of the wondrous Planet Unicorn (heyyy!) are back with....well...you'll just have to see it for yourself:

What can I say to that other than have a great weekend?  We'll see you Monday!

Wow, has it been an entire year since marriage equality was voted down in California, leading to massive protests across the US?

Well, let's do the Time Warp again, as voters in Maine last night "vetoed" same-sex marriage legislation that their elected officials had already passed.  One step forward, two steps back.  And to think this happened just a day after the TV soap opera "One Life to Live" had their big gay wedding episode:

Don't people obey television anymore?  The problem, of course, was the massive turnout by older, conservative voters -- there's less of them overall but they get out to vote more than us liberal youngsters.  Apathy kills!

As Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura repeated on CNN last night:

"You can't put a civil rights issue on the ballot and let the people decide. You have to have elected officials to who have courage to make the right decision. If you left it up to the people, we'd have slavery, depending on how you worded it."

We'll be seeing more protests in the days to come but the first, silliest and most delightful tactic against this awful setback comes from Bridgette P. LaVictoire at Lez Get Real, who insists the world should now boycott Maine lobster.  It is, after all, an abomination -- isn't that right, Bible fans?

Oh, there I go, making it religious again but hey, they started it ("God has given us this victory") and if you can stomach reading exactly why they did, this screed from the odious antigay activist Matt Barber will make fascinating reading to future historians who will wonder why the idea of two men or two women getting married was ever an issue in the first place.

Until then, as always, I take solace in the little things, like brilliant SCTVer and Canadian national treasure Andrea Martin shocking a roomful of Broadway people or this video from the BBC's "Friday Night with Jonathan Ross" -- easily the funniest thing you'll see today:

  

Maine has voted to repeal the state's recently passed gay marriage law.

With 87% of precincts reporting, 52.7% of votes were cast against gay marriage.

In May, state legislators passed a bill to allow same-sex marriage. Opponents -- backed by the Catholic church and the National Organization for Marriage -- quickly mobilized and forced a referendum on the issue.

Maine was seen as a key battleground for gay marriage in the US. The Maine vote came one year after California voted in favour of a similar measure -- Prop 8 -- which banned gay marriage in that state.

Gay marriage has lost in every state -- 31 in all -- in which it has been put to a popular vote.

However, in a Washington state referendum, early results suggest voters support a law that would expand domestic partnership rights for gays and lesbians. The state's new "everything but marriage" law has narrow approval so far, with a final result not expected until later this week.

Meanwhile, organizers of Maine's pro-gay marriage campaign vowed to continue the fight.

"We're in this for the long haul," says Jesse Connolly, No on 1 - Protect Maine Equality's campaign manager. "For next week, and next month, and next year -- until all Maine families are treated equally. Because in the end, this has always been about love and family and that will always be something worth fighting for."

National gay rights groups also expressed disappointment.

"This heartbreaking defeat in Maine unfortunately shows that lies and fear can still win at the ballot box," says Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. "Yet despite this setback, the tide clearly is turning nationwide in favor of marriage equality. We are confident that Maine will again join the growing number of states that extend the essential security and legal protections of marriage to all loving, committed couples."

Read more about the lead-up to the Nov 3 vote in our past coverage: Maine gearing up for gay marriage referendum in November.

Towleroad has a roundup of other races around the US, including Kalamazoo, Michigan's anti-discrimination measures.