My home state of Maine is considering legalizing same-sex marriage – at least, the legislature is set to debate and vote on it soon.
The Arian couple above are NOT a same-sex couple. Rather, they are the banner on a new anti-gay site from the Maine Marriage Initiative that appeared this week calling for “doing what’s right.” While the “owners” of the site do not identify themselves, news stories have pointed to James Dobson’s Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family and the Portland Catholic Diocese.
My favorite nugget of information on the site:
Perhaps you think that changing the law won’t negatively impact your life, your family. But history elsewhere shows that changing the definition of marriage to include same-sex couples has very real, and very negative, consequences.
Gee. I needed to take a look at the, um, “data” on this one. I was interested to learn what the “very real, and very negative consequences” of same-sex marriage are for civilization. So I clicked through to a page where the group shares its evidence. One example was how identifying same-sex marriages would threaten a physician’s ability to refuse care to patients; another example told of how Catholic Charities of Boston had to stop offering adoptions when same-sex marriage became legal there. Hmmm. Like it’s the fault of gays and lesbians that an adoption agency is so narrow-minded and bigoted that it feels it is the victim? What about the kids? And this group really believes that doctor’s should be able to pick and choose who they treat based on their moral beliefs? The site looks “sadly” on groups and people who will no longer be able to legally discriminate if same-sex marriage becomes a reality.
I hope the groups supporting same-sex marriage in Maine will use the lessons learned from California Prop 8 and conduct grassroots reach-outs to groups more diverse than the smug white couples on its website. I, for one, w0uld be proud of the state if IT does “what’s right.”
Check out more about Freedom to Marry Week here.
I also hope that the woman in the photo let’s her tranquilizer prescription run out – the “dazed” look is not a good one for her!
