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 ...
The only life they have left in them is their frontal lobes (to hunt for sex) and the point at the bottom of their spinal column (where they feel the sex). Everything else is numb.
Now you are just being mean spirited.
Same-sex “marriage” is like a frosty Hell or a hot winter’s day.
Sorry cretin, but a "homosexual marriage" will never be equal to a Heterosexual marriage. Can these people pro-create? NO!!!! How can you with a straight face say this is about equality when none exists and cannot exist?
Oh please, not this anti-Masonic, Illuminati crap!
The Masons were essentially a collective organization of Protestants whose mission was to counter the political power of the Roman Catholic Church in earlier times. (Individually Protestants were weak, but collectively they were strong.) Hence a Catholic "Cardinal" trying to paint Masons as "belonging to Lucifer".
A substantial number of our Founding Fathers were Freemasons and the last POTUS to be a Freemason was Gerald Ford. Seems to me that we have gone down in the world, not come up, since they aren't around much anymore.
Eh? So the princes of the Catholic Church merited God's wrath for NOT annulling a marriage? Not because of worldliness, ambition, profligacy, all that?
Interesting.
No I'm not. I read it in a medical holistic book.
Everything in the letter about WW1 is correct. Everything about WW11 is correct, Why not WW111?
So do Republican and Democrats. My point is the (D) and (R) will make us pay for the infections and diseases of the homosexual lifestyle, and the Libertarians won't. Other than that, I don't see much difference between all three.
Well now, I wouldn't count on that. The New and Improved Republican listening tour wants Republicans to have a bigger tent. They want what democrats have. No social conservatives and...... Power!
I guess we'll have to wait and see what direction they decide to take. Ours, or the Lucifer lefties.
According to you, his book was written in 1925. By that time, WWI had already been over for 7 years, so he was writing about the past.
And 1925 is also the same year that Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, outlining his future plans for Germany. Not a great leap to guess that they'd come to pass.
This is hardly some kind of great "prophecy". It's a review of the past and some good guesses on potential future conflicts. My problem is who he blames -- it's one thing to talk about those who attend Bilderberg Conferences, because they are powerful people who really exist. But the Illuminati & their evil plans? They only exist in Dan Brown novels & some RC imaginations!
Well, I don't know. I think there's probably more than one group who wants to control the world. Heck, the Oboma administration is trying to do it!
Behind every lie or conspiracy theory there's a little bit of truth to make it believable. I think there are people out there with cash who have the same motives as the Bilderbergs. They may not be as big,.... but........I believe they're out there, and it's not always the cash that gets things done.
Well ... that too!
Interesting how your hatred of Catholics causes you to lump them in with the brutal Pharaohs, the Sodomites, and the genocidal Soviets. You do side with Henry the 8th though, agreeing with his assessment that he should be granted an annulment. Nice.
To the unbeliever, marriage is a contract.
To the believer, it is a covenant.
Big difference.
—Interesting how your hatred of Catholics causes you to lump them in with the brutal Pharaohs, the Sodomites, and the genocidal Soviets. You do side with Henry the 8th though, agreeing with his assessment that he should be granted an annulment. Nice.—
No, no, just the opposite in fact (and I’m sorry if that’s the impression I made)! All I’m saying is that maybe they got it wrong (made a big mistake IOW) when they let him marry his brother’s widow (thus ignoring Leviticus), and then wouldn’t annul the wedding (ignoring Leviticus yet again)—for political reasons. It would have been better for Catholicism if “Burly King Harry” got his annulment; protestantism (and I’m not knocking that either) would not have spread over the English-speaking world as it did had England not gone “reformed.” This is a huge “what if”, I realize.
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