The same group that promoted Prop 8 in California is now on the attack in Maine. They are using the same lies and TV commercials used in California. Now think about it. They claim that the evils of homosexuality will be taught in school (BTW what evils?), it will harm straight marriages, and I think they said brides will dump their male fiancees for their bridesmaid, no I made that one up. But of the other two points, Iowa, Massachusetts, and Vermont have not experienced any of these predictions. No reported straight marriages going bad just because two men got married. No school children have reported a lesson on how to become homosexual.
Why are intelligent people buying into these bigoted fear mongers and their unfounded arguments? This time the Catholic Church is funding and supporting this initiative to over turn a law passed by both houses of the legislature and signed by the governor, who are the representatives of the people. I don't know if the LDS Church is also behind this movement, or maybe they learned their lesson and stayed out of this fight.
This is a civil rights issue, it is fairness to apply all laws equally to all citizens, regardless of who they are. One of America's post civil rights movement in the 1960's is the principle of equality for everyone. Why have some of us lost this moral principle and returned to hate and bigotry?
Should selective religious dogma trump a selected group of citizens their civil liberties? If so why? I'm asking...
If you take into consideration, that the Roman Catholic Church (RCC)is offering good "conversion conditions" for the Britsh Anglican believers - among which is admision for married priests, priests who live in veiled same-sex-relation ships, priests who have lived for years with a "house keeper", AND the fact that the RCC is the far out biggest pedofile association in the world, you just can not take the arguments of these institutions for serious. We must all respond to the religious institutions arguments on civil and human rights and have them ekspress their points of view ONLY within the boundaries of their privat premises, that is to say only in the churches
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