Posted on 05/06/2009 4:52:45 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The governor of Maine on Wednesday signed a law making the northeastern US state the fifth to allow gays to marry.
Governor John Baldacci, a Democrat, signed the law after the upper chamber in the state legislature voted 21 to 13 in favour.
"In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions," Baldacci said in a statement on his website.
"I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage."
Maine joined its fellow New England states of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont, as well as Iowa, in extending marriage rights to couples of the same sex.
Last week New Hampshire, which is also in the northeast, moved closer to adopting a similar law.
The bill passed in the upper house, but as still to win clearance from the lower house and get the signature of Governor John Lynch, a Democrat who has previously opposed moving beyond allowing civil unions.
New York's legislature is currently considering a bill proposed by Governor David Paterson.
Even the Times Of India knows about it?
another nail in the republic`s coffyn,
out with a whimper to becomce a Caligula 2nd world tin pot state run by the messiah ala chavez.
Isn’t liberalism beautiful?
Satan 5
God 45
Of course not --- because a union of two men is not equal to a union of a man and a woman.
Not that logic matters when you're dealing with the left.
Just don’t cave in, folks. It doesn’t matter how many laws they pass as long as we cling tightly to what we were taught by God. We will have to suffer for our beliefs sooner or later, of course, but that comes with being a Christian. All we can do now is love those who have been seduced by the false doctrines of the Revolution and steel ourselves for the test to come.
Score card:
For Satan 5
For God 45
God always wins no matter what the score is.
God bless our beloved Freeperette SheLion (RIP), who has been spared the sight of this depraved Baldacci abomination.
It’s not enough that Baldacci has run business and jobs out of the state - he wants normal families to flee as well. Liberalism is nothing but a scorched-earth policy. No wonder they all make a show of going “green”.
This is Obama’s Amerika and it has “57 states”, remember?
Oh good. Now the two RINO sisters can get married.
And everybody said that a constitutional amendment wasn’t necessary and that DOMA was sufficient enough and also should be left to the individual states.
This slippery slope is lubed with Vaseline.
We have been through this before. We have voted against this type of issue twice through the ballot box and now we will be bringing it to a people’s vote. Once again I will be collecting signatures.
“In the past, I opposed gay marriage while supporting the idea of civil unions... I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and of equal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage.”
Can we just release New England to go their own way, get the hell out?
Hell, no! That's beautiful countryside in the fall! I say we just shoot all the liberals and make them red states.
Get ready for polygamy folks, ‘cause it’s right around the corner!!
| * theoretically, homosexuality (via Leviticus) is also an abomination in Judaism and Christianity; sadly these faiths seem to have tossed Leviticus out the window. |
And the dominoes keep falling...until all 50 will have fallen(a nauseating thought).
No,its pretty...pretty ugly.
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