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Mar 11, 2010 - 9:20:54 PM |
Liberal religionists held press conferences around Maine yesterday. Homosexuals were only able to muster 120 "religious leaders" to publicly support the radical restructuring of marriage following the overwhelming defeat of so-called "gay" marriage at the polls last Tuesday.
Undaunted homosexual political activists are nevertheless pressing forward with their well-funded campaign to pervert marriage and ruin lives in the Pine Tree State.
League executive director Mike Heath has spent considerable time in recent days fielding interview requests. He debated a Maine Civil Liberties Union attorney on Wednesday night in Portland. WCSH television aired the debate on its popular "The Political Edge" television program. The program was not posted to their website at the time of this writing.
The Catholic Chancery wasted no time issuing a statement. Bishop Richard Malone expressed "disappointment and concern." He highlighted the Chancery's support for civil rights. After the people of Maine twice rejected homosexual rights (1998 and 2001) the Bishop watched from the sidelines when Maine's anti-discrimination code was changed by the Legislature in 2004 to include persons who choose to identify as homosexuals, bisexuals or transgendered. Malone then opposed Maine's peoples veto of gay rights in 2005. His opposition resulted in Maine enacting one of the most radical redefinitions of civil and human rights in American history.
Distinguishing marriage from other rights Malone said, "Marriage is not a civil right open to all like healthcare is."
Unfortunately the Bishop's definition of civil rights, surely unintentional, allows confused ten year old boys to use the little girl's elementary school rest rooms in Maine, and vice versa. His views on civil rights have also led some educators to promote homosexual "families" to young children.
Civil Rights Teams in Maine public schools enforce the idea that all sex is good sex as long as it is consensual. It is proper for school-age children, according to this ideology, to judge traditional morals as wrong. All other judgments are off limits in the name of civil rights.
The Civil Rights Teams are promoting same sex marriage. The Maine Family Policy Council wants the Civil Rights Teams defunded. League director Mike Heath said, "Civil rights cannot be based on moral wrongs. Sex outside of marriage is wrong. Everybody knows that."
The Maine Family Policy Council believes that legal rights cannot be based on moral wrongs. The century old Christian ministry therefore supports the repeal of all laws that support and protect homosexuality in any way. Civilizations restrain the sexual impulse and discourage perversion. They don't reward it with benefits that are equal to marriage and responsible lifestyles. People who choose sexual perversion are citizens who have the same rights as everyone else. Their rights are rooted in their citizenship and proper conduct, not their sexual perversion.
There is no discrimination going on. Homosexuals can already get married in Maine. They simply have to marry someone of the opposite gender. That is what marriage is, after all.
In his statement Malone appropriately observed, "Marriage cannot be redefined to suit needs as perceived by society if in doing so its very foundations are stripped: namely, the power to procreate becomes arbitrary and superflous to the definition. To do so is to render marriage meaningless." He continued, "Society's role is to protect and not redefine an institution that predates it and has been entrusted to its care."
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