Voting on Equality Across America

Yes, today is November 3rd, and I would be lying if I told you I slept well last night.  There is a lot at steak today across the nation as the voters head to the polls to cast their votes.

In the forefront, we have Maine.  Maine’s legislature passed a marriage equality law back in may, which would allow gay and lesbian couples to take the plunge, but with the help of the Catholic Church, NOM and Stand for Marriage Maine, the law went is going up for public approval via a popular vote.

In the state of Michigan, the city of Kalamazoo passed an ordinance that would outlaw discrimination against LGBT citizens in employment and housing, but the city’s Christians who believe hate is OK, as long as it’s against the LGBT community has forced a popular vote on the ruling.

Then, in Washington, there’s Referendum 71.  The state’s legislature passed a “everything but marriage” law aimed at providing many of the same benefits to same-sex couples that married heterosexual couples take for granted.  But, dispelling the myth that somehow the struggle is based upon the word “marriage”, this too has gone up for a vote, proving that the religious right’s beef with the LGBT community is really about being “gay” not about a sacred “religious” institution between a man and a woman.

In other states, there are races for the governor’s and legislative seats.  Sarah Palin has even reared her ugly head and shoved her nose into Virginia’s political scene with a robocall urging people to vote for those Republican candidates that support that anti-gay, anti-health care reform agenda.

So, today is not about who’s going to lead our nation in The White House, but it is about change, and hopefully the results will demonstrate that attitudes and acceptance is changing and growing.

Stayed tuned to gayagenda.com for results as they come in!

Stand for Marriage Maine Responds to Maine AG’s Statement

According to an unsurprising report:

The following statement can be attributed to Marc Mutty, chairman of Stand for Marriage Maine, the
official campaign of Yes on Question 1:

“It was a foregone conclusion that the Attorney General, an ardent supporter of same-sex marriage, has taken the position that there will be no change in public school curricula if Question 1 fails and LD 1020 takes effect.

“Ms. Mills has long supported LD 1020, the gay marriage legislation. Nearly a week before she released her opinion, she told a local television reporter that she was ‘appalled’ by our ads, which do nothing more than point out the real consequences to school children and parents if a new legal definition of
‘any two will do’ marriage replaces the union between a man and a woman.

“In her capacity as Maine’s Attorney General, Mills testified in support of it before the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee at the LD 1020 public hearing on 4/22/09, saying, in part, ‘I speak as someone who is now charged with enforcing Maine’s civil rights laws, and hopes that passage of LD 1020 will
make my job so much easier.’ [Emphasis added]

More at Reuters!

Anti Gays Lie About Teaching “Homosexual Marriage” in Schools

A little while back, I wrote about how the haters in Maine are using fear of “gay sex education” in public schools as a weapon to scare people into stripping rights away from gay couples in Maine. Here’s the bulk of the original e-mail Stand For Marriage Maine sent out:

For many of us, this week marks the start of the new school year. So in honor of back-to-school season, let’s try a little pop quiz. Which of the following does not belong in the same group as the others:

(A)History
(B)Mathematics
(C)English
(D)Homosexual Marriage

If you guessed ”D” – you’re right!

Read more at: Gayapolis!

What Are Anti-Gay Groups Hidding?

This coming Sunday, September 13th, there will be a Stand for Marriage Rally held at the Civic Center in Augusta, Maine. The rally is being organized by Focus on the Family, The Maine Jeremiah Project, Family Research Council and Stand for Marriage Maine, which includes the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland.

Many well-known, anti-gay leaders, including Bishop Richard Malone and Tony Perkins are expected to speak to those in attendance and will bee accompanied by religious leaders from Maryland and California.

The anti-gay Focus on the Family’s James Dobson is expected to participate via video message.

If you want to attend, you can do so for free if you can get a ticket. But, if you’re planning to attend, don’t tell anyone you’re a member of the media because the media will not be allowed inside the event.

Now, if the groups are genuinely convinced they have a message that should be heard, then why keep the media out? Are they worried they’ll be harassed about where the funding to help uphold discrimination is coming from? Perhaps they’ve simply figured out the lies and hate they spew are too easy to challenge? In any case, I find it very odd that such powerful anti-gay groups who are fighting to protect the sanctity of marriage are afraid of and hiding from the media. You’d think they’d welcome the press to help get out the word of how the gay agenda is to bring the nation to it’s knees by gaining equality.

The Rain in Maine on Gay Marriage

Opponents of marriage equality in Maine are claiming they have collected over the 55,087 signatures needed to stop the new marriage law that would permit same-sex marriage from going into effect.

Mark Mutty of the Stand for Marriage Maine coalition said it took only four weeks to gather more than enough signatures necessary to put marriage to a vote in November, but the group is planning to continue gathering signatures to make sure they have more than enough.

The law that would end marriage discrimination, which was scheduled to go into effect on Sept. 12, will be put on hold as soon as the signatures have been submitted and certified by the secretary of state’s office.

Looks like equality is again going up for a vote in another state.