Before this fight comes to your state too. And what ever happens in Maine, will greatly influence the outcome in your own state. Please stand behind marriage in Maine. Contact the author of this article IMMEDIATELY to ask how you can be of help.
Maine4Marriage
September 9, 2009
We Need Your Help Today!
Dear Maine4Marriage Supporters,
We are now fully engaged in the battle to protect traditional marriage in Maine.
We need your help.
We can’t win without it.
The following are real reasons to get involved in this effort. As we have said before, this is the most important bill that has EVER found its way to the legislature in the history of Maine. As you consider whether to help on this issue, or how much you can help, please pause and consider the following:
Our children will be taught in the public schools that homosexual marriage is every bit as desirable, normal and praiseworthy as true marriage. There will be nothing you as a parent can do about it. Parents in Massachusetts who have tried to prevent this kind of indoctrination of their children have lost in the federal law suit they filed. How will you respond when you ask your first grader what they talked about in school that day and they reply, “We talked about whether when we grow up we want to marry a boy or a girl?” Don’t think it won’t happen here in Maine. It is happening now in states and countries that have legalized homosexual marriage.
The radical redefinition of marriage that legalizing same sex marriage represents will also completely change the way all children, including our own, will view marriage. Instead of the child-centered social institution it is now, it would become adult oriented and merely an official recognition of adult “love.” That means even fewer people will get married. While we may be able to instill the proper concept and importance of marriage in most of our own children, they will still grow up in a very different society if we allow homosexual marriage to become legal.
We also know from social science research that the natural family (in which children are born to and raised by their married, biological mother and father) is by far the best for children on all measures of their welfare. Every other arrangement results in more negative outcomes for children that will continue to affect them as adults, and therefore weaken society. That weakened society with all the problems that will result from ever more members not having the best advantages as children is the society our children will have to live in and try to cope with. If for no other reason than parental concern about our children’s future, each of us should be actively engaged in fighting the legalization of same sex marriage
Even the terms “wife” and “husband” and “father” and “mother” will eventually be attacked as being politically incorrect. More and more children will not have either a mother or a father and those who marry will even be identified on Maine marriage licenses as “Spouse A” and Spouse ”B” or some other generic kind of category. What kind of teaching will that be for our children?
Please help by doing the following:
1. Become a member of www.standformarriagemaine.com and indicate that you are willing to be a volunteer.
2. Donate all that your budget can allow to either www.standformarriagemaine.com and/or www.maine4marriage.org. Your dollars will go to support the effort here in Maine.
3. Educate yourself on the issue. Knowledge is power.
We have less than 60 days. Every day counts. Please sign up and offer to help.
Today.
Miriam Conners
207-729-1549
nuview@bigplanet.com
Eileen Quinn
esq8@maine.rr.com
UPDATE: I just received this email from Miriam today:
We are desperate out here in Maine for help. The outcome of this referendum in Maine will effect all other states. Your help would be so appreciated…no words can tell how much. What would be wonderful is if you called Stand For Marriage Maine and asked for Mary. Tell her you know me and where you live and that you have a group who would be willing to make some calls. (and perhaps donate if that is feasible) Those two things are what we need at present. I am hoping that very soon, they will have the online access to make calls from the website. That would really open things up so that friends from other states can make 10 calls here and there. The opposition is so well funded that it is indeed a case of David against Goliath.
Perhaps you will enjoy my latest post to a newspaper.
Thank you again,
Miriam
nuviewmaine of Topsham, ME
Sep 10, 2009 6:18 PM
I have several concerns with same sex marriage legislation and will address one today. Under this law our relatively small and temporary body of legislators have decreed that men can make just as good of mothers as women; and women can make just as good of fathers as men. The status of “mother” as the one unique citizen in our culture that can carry and give birth to another infant/citizen has been deemed gender neutral. What that robs from me ( I’ve delivered 7 babies)and my 7 daughters is that our status as the citizens who are unique in that contribution are no longer unique under the law. The status of mother evaporates with LD 1020. It demands that under the law, all reference to familial relationships are genderless. It is crystal clear that one group of citizens must lose their position and status to give status to another group. Is that just? Whether we socially accept this thinking is one thing. But there is no mistaking that the law will demand no difference between me and any man. “Mother” under this law will no longer mean what is has meant for almost 5000 years in every culture and in the animal kingdom. We must carefully consider all the possible ramifications of this legislation, or we run the risk of consequences never imagined. I hope that people will think this through carefully before November 3.
