The Marriage Equality issue has produced an amazing amount of discussion, letters to the editor, forums, commentaries. A controversial referendum is a great, if expensive, way to educate the public on an issue. Here are the editorials endorsements of some Maine papers:
The Waterville Sentinel
The Bangor Daily
Erik Steele commentary
Here's a forum at Unity College. Education is not the friend of intolerance and neither is youth. They have grown up with more out people. The anti-equality people wouldn't even agree to debate at Farmington. The Catholic diocese of Portland has been the most vocal opponent of marriage equality, taking up second collections and giving hundreds of thousands to the campaign. Some brave Catholics put a large ad in the paper listing their names in opposition to their church's policy. I'm loving the free speech and democracy on steroids aspect of this whole thing. I've been mailing the editorial pages of our newspapers to people in Louisiana because I cannot imagine such a discussion happening there.

In The Atlantic an article on architecture experiments in New Orleans after Katrina. What Andres Duany has to say about New Orleans not as an American city, but as the Geneva of the Carribean, and about a culture of leisure available to people who don't have mortgages because their grandfathers built the house they live in is particularly interesting.