Friday, November 4, 2005

MEETING GOD ON THE MOUNTAIN

“Then Moses went up, also Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and they saw the God of Israel. And there was under His feet as it were a paved work of sapphire stone, and it was like the very heavens in its clarity.  But on the nobles of the children of Israel He did not lay His hand. So they saw God, and they ate and drank.  Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”

(Exodus 24:10-12)

QUOTATIONS FOR THE DAY

"We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity."

(Isadora Duncan)

“You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring it to you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.”

(Will Rogers)

 "Somebody figured it out - we have 35 million laws trying to enforce the Ten Commandments."

(Earl Wilson)

GOVERNOR ELBOWS IN ON TELEVISED DEBATE TO TELL THE PUBLIC
"I DO NOT SUPPORT GAY MARRIAGE"

In a bizarre development, Governor John Baldacci contacted WCSH TV  last night in an attempt to influence the outcome of a televised debate between Michael Heath and Ted O'Meara. The Governor apparently wanted to make one last attempt to convice the voting public that the upcoming vote is in no way related to the issue of same-sex marriage.

But no one anticipated what happened next, as Michael Heath calmly responded that he has a copy of a newspaper article in which the Governor is quoted as saying that he is for gay marriage, only not now.

Ted O'Meara seemed ill at ease throughout the debate, looking back and forth rapidly and giving the impression that not even he believed what he was saying. When Michael Heath said that a lawyer should at least know the correct meaning of the word "transgendered" O'Meara looked very nonplussed.

It is perhaps the first time in U.S. history that a Governor has edged his way into a televised debate. Usually the participants discuss the issue under debate, and the public decides based on what they have heard. But once again, this Governor seems determined to make up their minds for them, which after all, is a way of thinking that is not well-suited to a democratic form of goverment. This is the thirteenth time that the Governor and the Legislature have tried to add the phrase "sexual orientation" to the Maine Human Rights Act, and they seem determined not to take "No" for an answer.
 

A sign in Yarmouth which was vandalized. Please note the “No” sign nearby which was left untouched.

MORE INTOLERANCE AND INTIMIDATION ON DISPLAY

As the vote on Question 1 nears, the League is receiving more reports of stolen or vandalized signs. Yesterday, Paul Madore, Director of the Maine Grassroots Coalition, reported that hundreds of signs have been removed or vandalized across the state.

More disturbing is the report of a Christian business owner who reported that two gay rights activists entered her store, and pointing to some “Vote YES on 1” campaign literature, demanded to leave their pro-gay rights leaflets in the store. When the owner calmly stated that the store was her property and only she had a right to decide what material is left there, the activists threatened to come back “with a crowd.”

In another development, the demonstration in Boston last Saturday was apparently much worse than we had believed. A sound wagon was left at the door of the church and the protestors at the rally repeated a certain extremely obscene phrase again and again through the loud speakers. One gay writer at the protest reported that even he was frightened by the mood of the crowd. In an article in New England’s largest “gay newspaper” he wrote that the people at the door looked on “in horror” and that the protestors seemed to the Christians like “hungry lions at feeding time.”

MWD RECEIVING STRONG SUPPORT FROM ELITES

Who is helping finance the Maine Won’t Discriminate campaign? The latest document filed by Maine Won’t Discriminate shows among others, a Harvard law professor, an employee of the Washington Post, and an attorney of one of the most powerful law firms in America.  Another contributor to MWD will remain nameless, because the name belongs to the wealthiest and most powerful family in America.

Also contributing $1000 was “Q Channel” the cable network devoted to the homosexual lifestyle.

9th CIRCUIT COURT DECLARES PARENTHOOD UNCONSTITUTIONAL

The same court which recently outlawed the Pledge of Allegiance has now ruled that parents have no right to challenge what their children are taught in sex education classes.

In the words of the ruling, “There is no fundamental right of parents to be the exclusive provider of information regarding sexual matters to their children. Parents have no due process or privacy right to override the determinations of public schools as to the information to which their children will be exposed while enrolled as students.”

In other words, the 9th Circuit Court has now declared parenthood unconstitutional.