I grew up in Maine,  now what is the question?   My curiousity is peaked.

Fuck

You know there will be people that see that and think: "Gay Marriage taught in school = My kids will be turned gay"

Sometimes I hate people.   

Here is what i don't understand...

If people voted to bring back slavery would it come back? NO! Discrimation is not allowed. How is denying marrige to gay people not discrimmination?

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Religious can't consider themselves married unless they have approval from the all powerful Mr. Invisible and their church.

We must all become slaves to the government. We are not allowed to consider ourselves married unless we get the approval of the all powerful government, to whom give our lives by letting them take all our income and decide our heathcare. Unless we get that piece of paper from the government we can't be whole people.

How about banning all marriage strait and gay?

What good will this do when they can't get benefits in every other nation on the planet?

Or for that matter, have benefits when a couple that is from elsewhere comes to the U.S.?

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The race is tight and this is a great opportunity for our voice to be heard. Remember, there are real, negative consequences to legalizing same-sex marriage that the listeners and viewers can learn from your questions and comments!

Here are some pointers and messages to remember when calling in:

• Make your comment brief and to the point
• Remember that LD 1020 is their bill, they had every opportunity to expressly prohibit gay marriage from being taught in schools but they did not
• The state Department of Education admits there is nothing prohibiting schools from teaching about same-sex marriage
• There is already the infrastructure to advance gay issues in the schools including the Gay Straight Alliance that operates in schools across Maine, and the Gay Lesbian School Education Network
• If Question 1 fails, homosexual marriage will not become equal to traditional marriage because traditional marriage will be totally eliminated. Marriage will be genderless. It will exist solely for the benefit of adults

Call and email early for a better chance at getting in the queue! Tune in to make sure your voice is heard on this critical issue.

from http://www.standformarriagemaine.com/?p=568

           Has no one heard mt apollogise!!!!!!!!!!!

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Be careful about advocating that too strongly - you might not be able to find anyone to carry on your lineage.

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You are forgiven for calling that place home, but the state is not for being homophobic to the point it needs to take away other people's rights.

Hehe there are a few gems in here

50 Best reasons Gay Marriage is wrong!

1. Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, birth control and air conditioning.

2. Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

3. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.

4. Marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all: women are property, matches are arranged in childhood, blacks can't marry whites, Catholics can't marry Jews, divorce is illegal, and adultery is punishable by death

5. Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britany Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed.

6. Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children.

7. Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children.

8. Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America.

9. If we look to the word of God, His punishment for sexual immorality is equal to that of murder. Therefore, teaching kids to tolerate homosexuality is equal to teaching them to tolerate murder.

10. Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children.

11. Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms. Just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy (insurance, government, tourism, banking, retail, education, and social services), suburban malls, or longer life spans.

12. Gay marriage should be decided by people not the courts, because the majority-elected legislatures, not courts, have historically protected the rights of the minorities.

13. Civil unions, providing most of the same benefits as marriage with a different name are better, because a “seperate but equal” institution is always constitutional. Seperate schools for African-Americans worked just as well as seperate marriages for gays and lesbians will.

14. There is no separation between religious marriage and legal marriage, because there is no separation of church and state.

15. Devout, faithful Anglicans should never accept same-sex marriage, because it is an affront to the traditional family values upheld by Henry VIII and his wife, Catherine of Aragon, and his wife, Anne Boleyn, and his wife, Jane Seymour, and his wife, Anne of Cleves, and his wife, Catherine Howard, and his wife, Catherine Parr. They all knew the meaning of marriage and none of them lost their heads over the matter.

16. Married gay people will encourage others to be gay, in a way that unmarried gay people do not.

17. Legalizing gay marriage will lead to legalizing dog marriage. This can be inferred from the history of other political initiatives for gender equality. For example, when American women got the right to vote in 1920, it led to terriers voting in 1925, and when Title IX was passed in 1972 to prevent sex discrimination in any federally-funded school, resulting in the creation of athletic opportunities for girls, it led to Bichon Frises on the basketball court during the Reagan administration.

18. Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to legislative change in general, which could possibly include the legalization of polygamy, incest, medical marijuana, and unmuzzled pit bulls. Because we don’t know what might come down the next slippery slope, we should never change any law.

19. Legal marriage will inspire gays to mimic straight traditions, such as spiritual commitment ceremonies and celebratory parties, which is currently impermissible for them to do and which they have never done before.

20. Marriage is designed to protect the well-being of children. Gay people do not need marriage because they never have children from prior relationships, artificial insemination, surrogacy, or adoption.

21. Civil unions are a good option because "separate but equal" institutions are always constitutional. In fact, compared with marriage, civil unions are so attractive that straight people are calling dibs on them.

22. A man should not be able to marry whomever a woman can marry, and a woman should not be able to marry whomever a man can marry, because in this country we do not believe in gender equality.

23. If gays marry, some of straight people's tax dollars would end up supporting families whose structure they may find morally objectionable. Clearly, it is more just to continue taking gay people's tax dollars to support straight families, who are going to heaven regardless of what anyone else thinks of them.

24. Gays should hold off on the marriage question until society is more accepting of them, because they are not part of society.

25. The people's voice must be heard on this issue. Therefore, we must have a vote on a federal constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, because we can't think of any other way to discuss the issue.

26. Each state should decide for itself whether gay marriage will be recognized, because there is no "full faith and credit" clause that requires states to recognize each other's institutions.

27. Gay marriage attempts to replace natural heterosexual instinct with a cultural institution. Morality demands that we subordinate institutionalized commitment to raw, unfettered, biological impulse.

28. Gay marriages could very well suffer maladies like domestic violence and substance abuse. That's why we invented the Quality Control department to pre-approve the righteousness of all marriage applicants.

29. Those who support gay marriage aim to overthrow the dominant culture, as evidenced by their enthusiasm to participate in it.

30. If the state performs gay marriages, Christians might become more liberal and divide into more mutually opposed parties. Since the government is an arm of the church and is responsible for keeping the peace in Christian leadership councils, it should not get involved with gay marriage.

31. After gay marriage was legalized in Scandinavian countries in 2004, more heterosexual couples realized they wanted to live together and bear children without marrying first. Banning gay marriage is a good way to prevent this practice, as is banning independent thought and mandating straight marriage by age 21.

32. Heterosexual marriage was invented in the Biblical book of Genesis. Written somewhere between 1500 and 500 BCE, Genesis came as a great relief to people in many cultures, such as China, who, prior to 1500 BCE, sat around waiting for the Mesopotamians to invent the family unit.

33. Gay marriage would allow more partners and children to sign onto the family breadwinner's healthcare plan. Given that 44 million Americans do not have health insurance, it is safe to say that health insurance is not an American value.

34. The possibility of getting a gay marriage might encourage some married heterosexuals to divorce and seek a gay union instead. These marriages were obviously happy and successful, and the justices who provide gay second marriages should be charged with alienation of affection.

35. Gay marriage may hurl the populace into existential crisis and cause spontaneous divorces. Divorce triggers our moral hemorrhaging, but we will keep it legal. It is easier to seek the criminalization of gay marriage than the criminalization of divorce, particularly because most of us have had a few divorces.

36. Gay marriage is tainted because some of the applicants might be divorcees marrying for the second time. We oppose remarriage, and would like to ensure that no one marries more than once; therefore we will oppose the entire institution of marriage, to ensure that no one ever marries at all. That casts the net wide enough to catch all the would-be second-timers.

37. The people have the right to demand to vote on a Massachusetts constitutional amendment against gay marriage. There is no reason for proposed amendments to go through the state Legislature first, as is constitutionally required, because the Legislature doesn't spend all that many paid hours sitting around discussing the legal ramifications on behalf of ordinary citizens who are too busy with their own jobs to figure out everything at stake.

38. The arguments for gay marriage are flawed because Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry has made inconsistent statements about gay marriage, and he is known for his consistency on other issues.

39. Married gay couples will find it easier to adopt children, who might then be bullied and teased by other children for who their parents are. This reflects poorly on the judgment of gays who adopt children with the risk that their child could possibly be teased. It does not, of course, imply anything about the responsibilities of heterosexual parents, whose children only pick up rocks for geological interest and couldn't have been listening when their parents made those comments about their neighbors.

40. Children of married gay couples might suffer bullying and teasing more often than children of unmarried gay couples, because playground bullies are sensitive to the nuances of contract law.

41. It is reasonable and fair to institute "civil unions" that provide all the rights and responsibilities of marriage, but we cannot apply the holy, mystical word "marriage" to this contract. Deriving from the Latin maritare, "marriage" evokes the dignity of the typical Roman man who engaged in licentious sex with both sexes until he reached middle age, at which time he maritared a teenage girl to bear his children.

42. According to the three proposed "compromise" Massachusetts constitutional amendments defeated by the Legislature on Feb. 11 and 12, 2004, the best way to "protect the unique relationship of [heterosexual] marriage" is to institute civil unions that are in every way identical to it.

43. God created the institution of marriage, just after he created 2.9% APR automobile financing, student loans, HMOs, and divorce.

44. We must defer to the President's opinion on gay marriage, since the Republican party was given its authority by God. As it is written: "Republican and Democrat created He them." Paul elaborated: "Democrats, submit to the Republican."

45. In San Francisco, where renegade officials have married same-sex couples for the past several weeks, experts suggest that the city may suffer an earthquake in about ten years. Geological experts, that is. But good Christians don't recognize the opinion of Earth scientists, who falsely claim the Earth is 4.5 billion years old; they get their seismic information from their preachers, who say the earthquake's coming next week.

46. Allowing same-sex marriage could increase gay public displays of affection, because marriage has historically been proven to stimulate couples' interest in sex.

47. Making civil marriage available to same-sex couples could spur the wedding industry, and businesses would sure hate to pay taxes on all that profit.

48. Straight men are opposed to gay marriage because they would prefer that gay men try to be straight and compete with them for access to women, trimming down the pool of eligible dates to make courtship more challenging and exciting.

49. The country can't afford to provide benefits for any more married couples. That's why President Bush would never consider spending $150 million on programs that encourage more straight people to get married.

50. Gay marriage is wrong because children might be led to think that it is right and that would clearly be wrong.
 

Like California, outside money and outside crazies outspent and outpushed the opponents of the referendum in the propaganda, like the ads posted. The Portland archdiocese and Focus on the Family and its sub groups poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into the campaign. The vote was close, but in the end, the religious right won a victory in Maine yesterday.

Although, we did pass a new law for medical marijuana!

Why do Maine pot smokers hate gays?

How can you 'teach' gay marriage?  ...... : /

In other words, bigotry thrives where they don't have to see the people suffering as a result.

I don't have a plan to "re-educate" anyone. It's kind of like religion, you don't have a plan to eliminate religion and "re-educate" people with atheism.

All I can do is ask people to give a rational justification for having the government sanction marriage or ask people why they need a piece of paper from the government to call themselves married. It can't be done, so hopefully more people will realize this and dump this silly debate over gay marriage. Unless you have a slave mentality, you don't the government to allow you to marry.

I don't like the idea of anonymous government bureaucrats controlling my life. So I don't like them telling me I must go to their doctors or telling me I'm not married unless they say so.

You don't get it. I'm an unabashed hedonist. So if being married is what gives you a thrill, go for it(gay or strait). If being single is what makes you happy, go for it. I just don't need church or state to tell me when I'm married or approve of my relationship. The hole gay marriage debate is ridiculous because it just shows what sheep people really are. So what I don't like is this sheepishness and lack of independence that leads to people being slaves to religion, government or the healthcare industry.

I have my own opinions about marriage and monogamy. Unfortunately relationships have been poisoned by things like religion and traditions that have little use in modern society.

There is no reason any government need to sanction anyone's relationship gay or strait. The government has no business having any interest in whom anyone has a person relationship. The only exception I could see is if a couple decides to bring a child into the world that could potentially become a responsibility and burden to others.

No. You completely misunderstand me. I don't believe in bigotry against anyone strait or gay. Single or 'married'. You however seem to be OK with bigotry against single people.

I don't believe in the right to breed, especially if I'm forced to pay to raise other people's children with things like their healthcare. So their needs to be some regulation of couples and singles that choose to have children, gay and strait. I have no problem with gay people adopting, cloning or inseminating as long as they don't expect me to pay for their little ones. 

Only if they bring children into the world that become my burden. Gays can have children now with cloning and insemination.

I'm against their god given rights to breed, own land and wage war. I hardly think the religious right would be my in corner. I'm opposed to anything being a unconditional right that imposes and burden, restriction or obligation on others.

But if someone can't be happy without a piece of paper from the state saying they're married, that's their problem, not mine. What I am getting out of supporting their slavish need to get government approval?

I'm not blocking them from doing anything. I just don't see the role of government is to hand out pieces of paper with magic words just to make happy.

This reminds of the slavery days when the master had to approve of his Negros marriage in order for them to married. But I guess this is what I should expect from someone that has no problem handing over all his liberty, income and personal choice to the government.

Because obviously allowing the option for gays to marry has everything to do with handing over liberty, income, and personal choice to a government. And obviously it has something to do with slaves. 

Not two people that may want to be legally recognized as married, along with the social connotations that make them one unit, two people tied together. Nope, not that. Not at all.

The same founding fathers that went along with slavery as an institution because it was a tradition that needed to be accomodated. Treated some people as only 3/5 of a person. Kind like what society does to single people today.

I'm still baffled every time I hear about rights being put to a popular vote. If they were as gung ho on this idea back in sixties as we are today, we'd still have government endorsed legal segregation in some states. No doubt. This practice is a horrible idea no matter how you look at it.