Maine Reflections

(Originally published in Bay Windows , September 15, 2009. I think Protect Maine Equality has gained some traction since I wrote it, but I believe much of the below still holds true.) My spouse and I took our six-year-old son camping in Maine right before the school year began. I have been camping there myself since I was two. Maine doesn’t exactly feel like home to me, but it does feel like vacation. It was new for me, then, to be thinking about politics as we drove down Route 1A towards