Maine and Gay Marriage

The wonderful news for the Gay community is Gay marriage is legal here in Maine! The bad news is it may be taken away. I love my Gay and Lesbian friends and they are people the same as you and I so why can’t they be able to marry as we can? Being Gay does not make you an Alien or a Sinner or weird. It just is.

In Leviticus in the Bible is says “If  a man lay with a man the same as he lay with a woman they shall both shall be stoned to death.” What kind of people think like that? Primitive people. If there was a God he would not believe that unless he is sick and twisted. But Not to worry There is No Scientific Evidence of any kind of God.

This is from: http://gay.americablog.com

Leader of anti-marriage campaign admits misleading people of Maine

We’ve known that the anti-gay side has been lying about Maine’s new marriage equality law. We’ve reported on the lies coming from the Catholic church in Maine over and over again, and the local press has even called out the Catholic church for their anti-gay lies. But, the anti-equality campaign, funded by the Bishop of Maine and led by the Bishop’s spokesperson, Marc Mutty, has continued to lie about the impact, or lack thereof, of same-sex marriage on our state.

But, in an interview tonight on Maine Public Broadcasting Network, Mutty not only admitted that, contrary to what his campaign has been alleging, there won’t be a mandate to teach same-sex marriage in schools, he went further. Mutty admitted that his side has misled the people of Maine:

“We’ve never said that schools will be mandated- or, actually, perhaps we did in one ad, or certainly led people to believe that, inadvertently,” says Yes on 1’s Chairman Marc Mutty.

“Inadvertently.” Wink, wink.

Mutty and his boss, Bishop Malone, have done a disservice to the people of Maine. In the interview, Mutty had the audacity to blame the lie on “verbal short cuts” in his side’s 30-second ads. Those ads and the “verbal short cuts” were created by Mutty’s very high-powered consultants, Schubert-Flint, the very same firm that created the disgusting ads for the Yes on Prop. 8 side in California. So, just how inadvertent do you really think the lies were?

That strategy worked in California. It’s not working in Maine.UniteTheFight has the audio. Definitely worth a listen.

Since the ads are lies and Mutty knows it, he should take them down — and apologize. Otherwise, Marc Mutty and his boss are admitting that they are lying for the lord like their friends the Mormons did in California.

Maine’s Catholic Church donations to anti-gay campaign top $550,000

Today, we have more evidence of just how much the Catholic Church, led by Bishop Richard Malone, is funding the anti-gay campaign in Maine, meaning the Bishop is funding the lies. The campaign director for the anti-gay campaign in Maine, Marc Mutty, recently admitted that his side has been misleading the people of Maine. (Mutty is actually an employee of the Catholic Diocese on Maine, who is on leave to run the campaign.) Here’s the latest, via AP:

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland has given another $152,600 to the group that’s trying to overturn Maine’s gay-marriage law.

A spokeswoman said the new contributions were transferred from a “rainy day” fund to the Stand for Marriage Maine political action committee.

That brings total Roman Catholic contributions to more than $550,000. That includes more than $180,000 from the Diocese of Portland, $141,300 from individual parishioners in Maine and $214,000 from other dioceses and bishops across the U.S.

This is shocking. The Diocese of Maine is shutting down parishes. The Bishop couldn’t use his “rainy day” fund for that? And, who the hell knew the Bishop had a “rainy day” fund? This anti-gay effort is clearly more important to the Bishop.

The Catholic Diocese of Maine is to Yes on 1 as the Mormons were to Yes on Prop. 8.

I can’t wait to tell this news to my mother. She is not going to be happy. Many, many Catholics in Maine won’t be happy.

http://gay.americablog.com/2009/10/maines-catholic-church-donations-to.html

This one is from Right Wing Watch

Anti-Gay Forces In Maine File Suit So They Can Run Outrageous Ads

Yesterday, the National Organization for Marriage and American Principles in Action, the c4 armof the American Principles Project, which was founded by NOM Chairman of the Board, Robert P. George, filed a lawsuit claiming that they should not have to follow Maine’s election laws:

[NOM] has filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Bangor alleging that Maine’s financial reporting requirements are unconstitutional. The lawsuit seeks a court injunction prohibiting the state from enforcing a law that NOM officials claim is being used to harass and intimidate opponents of gay marriage.

“The reporting requirements become onerous and burdensome, especially when you are working in several states, and are an infringement of free speech,” said Brian Brown, NOM’s executive director.

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Brown and NOM’s attorneys contend the organization did not violate Maine’s rules because they were soliciting donations for the general fight to protect “traditional marriage,” not for the Maine campaign in particular.

Brown argued in an interview Thursday that the reporting requirements — which include registering as a ballot question committee, appointing a treasurer and keeping detailed records for four years — are an undue burden. He also described Maine’s law as legally unclear and “patently unconstitutional” because it prohibited or discouraged free speech in the form of advocacy on one side of an issue.

As Mike Tidmus reported, one of the complaints made by APIA in the filing [PDF] is that it wants to run two ads on Maine television, but says they are “chilled from doing so, however, by the prospect of having to register as a BQC and meet the reporting and other requirements of sections 1056-B and 1059.”

They even produced transcripts of the two unbelievable ads they want to run – the first is entitled “Bigot”:

Girl: Mommy, are you a bigot?

Mother: What?

Girl: At school, we learned that people who are against gay marriage are bigots.

Mother: No, dear. I believe that homosexuals should be treated fairly–but I also believe that marriage should be just for one man and one woman. That doesn’t make me a bigot.

Girl: What about Reverend Jones and Father Diego? Are they bigots?

Mother: Did you learn that at school too?

Girl nods

VO: Think that gay marriage won’t affect your family? Think again.

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And the second ad, which is amazingly even worse, is entitled “The New Curriculum”:

School Administrator (talking to an off-camera mic/reporter–as he talks, we see images of teachers in classrooms reading from blurred-out books, GLSEN-style posters, etc.): No, we’re very proud of the new curriculum. It’s all about teaching kids to embrace different lifestyles and explore their own sexuality.

Switching from images of sex ed classrooms to little boy on a bench in a darkened school hallway. We can see an adult male (not his face, we’re looking from the perspective of the child and the view never includes his head) come out of an office, take the boy’s hand, lead him into the office, and close the door. Freeze on the closed-door, which has a sign that says, “Counseling Session: Do Not Disturb”

Reporter (VO) : Yes, but is it appropriate for kindergartener to be receiving counseling about whether they might be gay?

School Admin (VO): Sure, we’ve had a few complaints, but there’s not much parents can do. It’s the law, after all.

VO: Think gay marriage won’t affect your family? Think again.

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People I am in a loving wonderful straight relationship of many years and I care about this issue so you why don’t you? People deserve rights. I am not married. I am engaged. Have been many years. I will get married to my wonderful John when all gay & Lesbian people in the US can get married.

I love this Picture. I stole it from a friend.

I would love to hear people thoughts so comment away.