The smoke-and-mirrors game of Maine's No Special Rights PAC

"Marlboro Marine" James Blake Miller photographed by Louis Sinco / LA Times
Photo essay here.

In selecting their poster boy, Maine's anti-marriage equality lobby failed to mention the rough time James Blake Miller has had since being cashiered from the Corps on account of PTSD.
     The PAC prefers to use the iconic image of him as a blank screen on which to superimpose a two-dimensional patriotism, in opposition to an implied gay agenda of nonstop gender-bending revelry and dissolution.

In the years since the Fallouja battle, James Blake Miller has slowly turned against the war. “What have we gained as a country?” he asked. “What have we actually accomplished other than the loss of some damn fine people?”

     For all we know, Miller may personally find gay marriage abhorrent. But we'd rather hear it from him, if true, than from proxies with a political ax to grind.