"Perez Hilton" is heading to Maine?
Posted on 05/06/2009 10:04:05 AM PDT by steve-b
Democratic Gov. John Baldacci today signed into law a bill allowing gay marriage, making Maine the fifth state to allow same-sex marriage.
The governor's signature came barely an hour after the measure won final approval in the state Legislature, with a final 31-8 vote in favor in the Maine Senate.
Baldacci said in a statement that while he has opposed gay marriage in the past, "I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and ofequal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage.
"This new law does not force any religion to recognize a marriage that falls outside of its beliefs," the governor said. "It does not require the church to perform any ceremony with which it disagrees. Instead, it reaffirms the separation of church and state.
"It guarantees that Maine citizens will be treated equally under Maine’s civil marriage laws, and that is the responsibility of government," Baldacci said....
(Excerpt) Read more at pressherald.mainetoday.com ...
Queers are heterophobes.
The good side is that the inbreds (er, I mean homosexual couple) can’t breed...ergo, no Dem voter for the future.
The degeneration of America continues unabated.
"Perez Hilton" is heading to Maine?
Bowing to the Queen Pelosi who tells ALL dems how to vote.
Politicians
Unions
Environmentalists
Liberal Media
Homosexuals
Illegal Immigrants
Criminals
Terrorists
Inner city welfare mothers
Jaywalkers
Corporations and small businesses
Military
Private Property Owners
Unborn Children
Christians
Gun Owners
Smokers
Taxpayers
I wrote in Ron Paul for President. I believe in state’s rights. I support Maine’s legalization of gay marriage.
I knew this would happen.
No surprise there...
As said before, it’s the beauty of the state itself that keeps me living here.
Wish Mr. B had been there to represent the rights of true marriage !
It’s just one more nail in the coffin of decency. Sorry it
happened in your beautiful state.
So am I, Luv.
I’m beyond disgusted.
Mr B is not sorry he is not up there this session.
It’s infested with Libs.
They can keep it up but they don’t have the support to hold this line. They will be turned back in Iowa, Maine, and New Hampshire.
True...he would have to take a cold shower after each day’s session.
I hope this decision can be overturned somehow by an election...
I’m coming up there anyway! LOL!
Very sad... Maine is such a lovely state, especially coastal Maine, IMO. Spent lots of time up there during the summer over the years.
I feel your pain... we in Connecticut were subjected to becoming a Gay State, whether we liked it or not. We had no say in the matter... some judge decided "it's time had come."
New Hampshire is supposedly next, and then the big Gay Target will be on little Rhode Island.
This is NOT the New England I grew up in. Sickening...
Yet. That will come in due time, as the leftist ratchet tightens down inexorably on what's left of our liberty and common sense.
Yup... exactly right.
The conspiracy nut in me thinks that there is more to the reluctance of the GOP to win the abortion issue than meets the eye.
Ford appointed Stevens.
Carter had no SCOTUS appointments.
Reagan gave us O'Connor, Scalia and Kennedy; GHW Bush gave us Souter and Thomas; Clinton gave us Ginsburg and Breyer; Dubya gave us Roberts and Alito.
Stevens is 89...Obama will replace him. Ginsburg is 76 and her health is suspect...Obama will probably replace her. Scalia is 73 and Kennedy is 72...if either of them is replaced by Obama you can kiss any hopes of further restricting abortion goodbye for decades. Breyer is 70 and looks healthy as a horse. Souter is 69 and gone.
McCain promised constructionist appointments to the federal courts. Some will point to a long record of appeasing liberals with his Senate votes and authorship and sponsorship of bills, but his choice of Palin showed me that he wanted to leave a conservative Presidential legacy which I believe would have been born out with the fulfillment of his promise of constructionists. Some conservatives were unwilling to give him that chance.
The Supreme Court is every President's most important legacy.
Conservatives who refused to vote for McCain ought to be ashamed of themselves...they knew Obama was the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, they heard his promises, they knew he was a Marxist...but they refused to vote for the only candidate who could stop him in the general.
OBAMA IS WRECKING THE COUNTRY AND ANTI-GOP, ANTI-MCCAIN RECALCITRANTS ARE COMPLICIT IN THE UNPRECEDENTED HAVOC THIS PRESIDENT IS WREAKING.
You say it would be the same with McCain?
How the hell do you know? How the hell will you EVER know?
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.
Sorry...Post 116 should have been to “All.”
No, and for the same reason I can't cede my dirty underwear to the Queen of England.
Well, duh. Without these issues, they've got nothing to hide their miserable Democrat-Lite Big-Government performance from the rubes (which is how they see the rest of us).
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