Maine gay marriage supporters on Monday
released a new ad featuring four firefighters.
In the ad, three straight firefighters,
Andrew Shea, Dave Lorandeau and Eric Humphrey, stand up for their gay
co-worker, Ryan Michel, and his right to decide whom he comes home to
after a long day's work at the firehouse.
“These guys are all straight,”
Michel says. “So when I joined the department, I wondered how a
brotherhood so tight like that would be accepting of someone who is
gay.”
“The brotherhood that we have is not
the straight firemen's brotherhood,” says Shea. “It's the
firemen's brotherhood.”
“If a guy works hard and does his
job, I'm not going to judge him and we're not going to judge him
either,” Lorandeau says.
“When we clear a call, I get to go
home to my wife,” Humphrey says. “The guys I work with should be
able to marry the person they love.”
“We're voting 'yes' on 1,” he adds.
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(Related: Maine
gay marriage referendum tightens.)