Homosexual Rights Lobby Railroads Same Sex Marriage Through Maine Legislature
- The Record
- May 7, 2009
As predicted by the Maine Family Policy Council, the Legislature and Governor of Maine enacted same sex marriage into law on Wednesday, over the wishes of the people of Maine. The leadership of the Maine Family Policy Council was the only pro-family organization in the state to correctly predict that the effort to sway the votes of legislators in favor of traditional marriage would ultimately have no effect. The Maine Family Policy Council concluded at the beginning of the public debate over same sex marriage that the homosexual rights lobby in Augusta was so powerful, that the public hearing and the votes in the Senate and House would be no more than a kind of theater designed to mislead and placate the public, while catering to the desires of the homosexual lobby.
Our fears were confirmed on Wednesday afternoon when the Governor rushed to sign the bill into law barely an hour after it was passed by the Senate.
The RECORD revealed last month that the same sex marriage bill was introduced into the Legislature three days after Senator Larry Bliss, a homosexual rights activist, was named Chairman of the committee which held the public hearing on the bill. Bliss, a former native of Los Angeles, and an open homosexual, served on the boards of several homosexual rights organizations.
It was Bliss's committee that cynically eliminated a civil union bill two weeks ago so that the Legislature would have no alternative but to vote in same sex marriage. Representative Les Fossel, who introduced the civil union bill, voted against the same sex marriage bill on Tuesday, saying that the bill would unleash a culture war over the word 'marriage.' Although the bill was the most dangerous and ill-advised bill in the history of the Maine Legislature, both the House and the Senate voted down sending the bill out to the public in a referendum.
Those who thought that the vote today in the Senate would be nothing out of the ordinary were sadly mistaken. Pro-family activists were shocked to see Senate President Libby Mitchell step down from the rostrum and name homosexual activist Larry Bliss as the temporary President of the Senate. Bliss then stepped forward and took the vote, announcing that he would sign the bill, as called for the Senate rules, and not Libby Mitchell.
After the vote, Senator Deborah Plowman gave a moving defense of religious liberty and freedom of conscience. Plowman stated that the negative effect on religious liberty would be profound. Plowman also said that the condemnation of people of faith during the Senate debate last week was disturbing, and that she objected to hearing the Catholic Church denigrated.
Senator Plowman said she was so disturbed on the day of the Senate vote that she couldn't respond. Plowman also objected to the characterization of the people of Maine, in reference to a proposed referendum, as "an angry mob." Plowman concluded her remarks by saying "I have only one God, and it is certainly not the State of Maine."
Since all the predictions made by The RECORD have come to pass, we would like to make one more prediction, which will be our final prediction. We fully expect Senator Bliss to announce within the next few days that he will 'marry' the man he is living with. May God help us all.
