To the editor:

In his June 27 letter (“Accept defeat”) regarding the gay marriage issue, Robie Davis is stunningly arrogant and ignorant. How often those two qualities appear to be joined at the hip.

Davis wonders “why we have to keep voting on this.”

The answer is because this is a democracy, because Maine law and the constitutional right to petition allow it, and because there are enough Mainers with views different from yours on this matter to bring it back to the ballot.

That’s called due process.

No, we don’t “know it’s wrong,” therefore we — straight, gay, whatever — will not “accept defeat. But you must accept the law of the land and the legitimacy of differing opinions.

Please retire your monopoly on “Right Answers,” and don’t neglect to vote in November.

Alexander Severance

Brunswick