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.

This was sent to me by a friend in Bozeman, MT who was there.
Why do we tolerate this?

Hello All,

By now you have probably heard that President Obama came to Montana last Friday. However, there are many things that the major news has not covered. I feel that since Bill and I live here and we were at the airport on Friday I should share some facts with you. Whatever you decide to do with the information is up to you. If you chose to share this email with others I do ask that you DELETE my email address before you forward this on.

On Wednesday, August 5th it was announced locally that the President would be coming here. There are many groups here that are against his healthcare and huge spending so those groups began talking and deciding on what they were going to do. The White House would not release ANY details other than the date.

On about Tuesday Bill found out that they would be holding the “Town Hall” at the airport. (This is only because Bill knows EVERYONE at the airport) Our airport is actually located outside of Belgrade (tiny town) in a very remote location. Nothing is around there. They chose to use a hangar that is the most remotely located hangar. You could not pick a more remote location, and you can not get to it easily. It is totally secluded from the public.
FYI: We have many areas in Belgrade and Bozeman which could have held a large amount of folks with sufficient parking. (gymnasiums/auditoriums). All of which have chairs and tables, and would not have to be SHIPPED IN!! $$$$$
During the week, cargo by the TONS was being shipped in constantly. Airport employees could not believe how it just kept coming. Though it was our President coming several expressed how excessive it was, especially during a recession. $$$$$

Late Tuesday/early Wednesday the 12th, they said that tickets would be handed out on Thursday 9am at two locations and the president would be arriving around 12:30 Friday.

Thursday morning about 600 tickets were passed out. However, 1500 were printed at a Local printing shop per White House request. Hmmmm……900 tickets just DISAPPEARED.
This same morning someone called into the radio from the local UPS branch and said that THOUSANDS of Dollars of Lobster were shipped in for Obama. Montana has some of the best beef in the nation!!! And it would have been really wonderful to help out the local economy. Anyone heard of the Recession?? Just think…with all of the traveling the White House is doing. $$$$$ One can only imagine what else we are paying for.

On Friday Bill and I got out to the airport about 10:45am. The groups that wanted to protest Obama’s spending and healthcare had gotten a permit to protest and that area was roped off. But that was not to be. A large bus carrying SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members drove up onto the area (illegal)and unloaded right there. It was quite a commotion and there were specifically 2 SEIU men trying to make trouble and start a fight. Police did get involved and arrested the one man but they said they did not have the manpower to remove the SEIU crowd.
The SEIU crowd was very organized and young. About 99% were under the age of 30 and they were not locals! They had bullhorns and PROFESSIONALLY made signs. Some even wore preprinted T-shirts. Oh, and Planned Parenthood folks were with them…..professing abortion rights with their T-shirts and preprinted signs. (BTW, all these folks did have a permit to protest in ANOTHER area)

Those against healthcare/spending moved away from the SEIU crowd to avoid confrontation. They were orderly and respectful. Even though SEIU kept coming over and walking through, continuing to be very intimidating and aggressive at the direction of the one SEIU man.

So we had Montana folks from ALL OVER the state with their homemade signs and their DOGS with homemade signs. We had cowboys, nurses, doctors you name it. There was even a guy from Texas who had been driving through. He found out about the occasion, went to the store, made a sign, and came to protest.

If you are wondering about the press…..Well, all of the major networks were over by that remote hangar I mentioned. They were conveniently parked on the other side of the buildings FAR away. None of these crowds were even visible to them. I have my doubts that they knew anything about the crowds.
We did have some local news media around us from this state and Idaho. Speaking of the local media…they were invited. However, all questions were to be turned into the White House in advance of the event. Wouldn’t want anyone to have to think off the top of their head.

It was very obvious that it was meant to be totally controlled by the White House. Everything was orchestrated down to the last detail to make it appear that Montana is just crazy for Obama and government healthcare. Even those people that talked about their insurance woes……..the White House called our local HRDC (Human Resource and Development Committee) and asked for names. Then the White House asked those folks to come. Smoke and mirrors…EVERYTHING was staged!!!!!!!!!!!

I am very dismayed about what I learned about our current White House. The amount of control and manipulation was unbelievable. I felt I was not living in the United States of America, more like the USSR!! I was physically nauseous. Bill and I have been around when Presidents or Heads of State visit. It has NEVER been like this. I am truly very frightened for our country. America needs your prayers and your voices. If you care about our country please get involved. Know the issues. And let Congress hear your voices again and again!! If they are willing to put forth so much effort to BULLY a small town one can only imagine what is going on in Washington DC. Scary!!

Kathy
Bozeman, Montana

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE! PLEASE READ AND PASS TO AS MANY AS POSSIBLE!

The healthcare bill that Congress seems intent on passing is far worse and Orwellian than anything you might have imagined. I am not trying to be histrionic, the way people often get over just about anything. This is life-altering and, unlike most pieces of bad legislation, we will never be able to go back. A highly regarded doctor has taken the time to read the 1000+ page bill, something I don’t think a single politician has bothered to do. (Yesterday, John Conyers, a big proponent, actually said this: “What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?”)

This doctor has done the work so we, as citizens, don’t have to all sit down and read the entire thing ourselves. What he found is frightening in the extreme.

The citings below are from the proposed house version of the healthcare bill. There is a link below to determine who your representatives are in the US House and US Senate. Please take a few minutes in the next day or so and call them to express your displeasure with this bill. Also, please forward this to your friends and ask them to do the same.

* Page 16: States that if you have insurance at the time of the bill becoming law and change, you will be required to take a similar plan. If that is not available, you will be required to take the govt option!

* Page 22: Mandates audits of all employers that self-insure!

* Page 29: Admission: your health care will be rationed!

* Page 42: The “Health Choices Commissioner” will decide health benefits for you. You will have no choice. None.

* Page 50: All non-US citizens, illegal or not, will be provided with free healthcare services.

* Page 58: Every person will be issued a National ID Healthcard.

* Page 59: The federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer.

* Page 65: Taxpayers will subsidize all union retiree and community organizer health plans (example: SEIU, UAW and ACORN)

* Page 72: All private healthcare plans must conform to government rules to participate in a Healthcare Exchange.

* Page 84: All private healthcare plans must participate in the Healthcare Exchange (i.e., total government control of private plans)

* Page 91: Government mandates linguistic infrastructure for services;

translation: illegal aliens

* Page 95: The Government will pay ACORN and Americorps to sign up individuals for Government-run Health Care plan.

* Page 102: Those eligible for Medicaid will be automatically enrolled: you have no choice in the matter.

* Page 124: No company can sue the government for price-fixing. No “judicial review” is permitted against the government monopoly. Put simply, private insurers will be crushed.

* Page 127: The AMA sold doctors out: the government will set wages.

* Page 145: An employer MUST auto-enroll employees into the government-run public plan. No alternatives.

* Page 126: Employers MUST pay healthcare bills for part-time employees AND their families.

* Page 149: Any employer with a payroll of $400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays an 8% tax on payroll BR * Page 150: Any employer with a payroll of $250K-400K or more, who does not offer the public option, pays a 2 to 6% tax on payroll

* Page 167: Any individual who doesn’t’ have acceptable healthcare (according to the government) will be taxed 2.5% of income.

* Page 170: Any NON-RESIDENT alien is exempt from individual taxes

(Americans will pay for them).

* Page 195: Officers and employees of Government Healthcare Bureaucracy will have access to ALL American financial and personal records.

* Page 203: “The tax imposed under this section shall not be treated as tax.”

* Page 239: Bill will reduce physician services for Medicaid. Seniors and the poor most affected.”

* Page 241: Doctors: no matter what specialty you have, you’ll all be paid the same (thanks, AMA!)

* Page 253: Government sets value of doctors’ time, their professional judgment, etc. BTW, they do this to an extent now.

* Page 265: Government mandates and controls productivity for private healthcare industries.

* Page 268: Government regulates rental and purchase of power-driven wheelchairs.

* Page 272: Cancer patients: welcome to the wonderful world of rationing!

* Page 280: Hospitals will be penalized for what the government deems preventable re-admissions.

* Page 298: Doctors: if you treat a patient during an initial admission that results in a readmission, you will be penalized by the government.

* Page 317: Doctors: you are now prohibited for owning and investing in healthcare companies!

* Page 318: Prohibition on hospital expansion. Hospitals cannot expand without government approval.

* Page 321: Hospital expansion hinges on “community” input: in other words, yet another payoff for ACORN.

* Page 335: Government mandates establishment of outcome-based measures: i.e., rationing.

* Page 341: Government has authority to disqualify Medicare Advantage Plans, HMOs, etc.

* Page 379: More bureaucracy: Telehealth Advisory Committee (healthcare by phone).

* Page 469: Community-based Home Medical Services: more payoffs for ACORN.

* Page 472: Payments to Community-based organizations: more payoffs for ACORN.

* Page 489: Government will cover marriage and family therapy. Government intervenes in your marriage.

* Page 494: Government will cover mental health services: defining, creating and rationing those services.

* Page 30: A government committee will decide what treatments and benefits you get (and, unlike an insurer, there will be no appeals process).

* Page 354: Government will restrict enrollment of SPECIAL NEEDS individuals.

* Page 425: Advance Care Planning Consult: Senior Citizens, assisted suicide, euthanasia?

* Page 425: Government will instruct and consult regarding living wills, durable powers of attorney, etc. Mandatory. Appears to lock in estate taxes ahead of time.

* Page 425: Government provides approved list of end-of-life resources, guiding you in death.

* Page 427: Government mandates program that orders end-of-life treatment; government dictates how your life ends.

* Page 429: Advance Care Planning Consult will be used to dictate treatment as patient’s health deteriorates. This can include an ORDER for end-of-life plans. An ORDER from the GOVERNMENT.

* Page 430: Government will decide what level of treatments you may have at end-of-life.

Here’s how to figure out how to reach your representative.

http://www.capwiz.com/nra/dbq/officials/

In Westchester County,NY.

For those of you in NY you will also find these sites helpful:

http://johnhall.house.gov/

http://schumer.senate.gov/

http://gillibrand.senate.gov/

As a member of the home schooling community, I draw a lot of support from online groups where I gain inspiration and encouragement. The following letter is a recent post from  one of these online support groups.  Please take a moment to read it.  And then ask yourself, Do you really want the Feds taking charge of your health care when you or a loved on is ill????

________________________________________

Dear All,

The following is a letter about the experience we had yesterday that I wrote to our legislators. Please read and write yours to vote NO. Any hospital facility you have been to is better than what the government currently provides.

Blessings,
Kristine Farley
Bonney Lake, WA

The government already runs the VA hospitals and they are in such a shameful situation. Can the government do better? I sincerely doubt it.

Yesterday I spent 13 hours at the Seattle VA Hospital with an older family member and her husband, who is a highly awarded veteran. What a tragic disappointment for these great men and women, the defenders of our freedom!

This facility is horrible with chipped paint on all surfaces (doors, jams, walls, metalwork, etc.), dingy tile & walls that look to be decades old, bathrooms that smell of old urine and stall dividers that must be the original with only some of original paint left on them. Dusty blinds and dirty walls were on every floor. There were soiled, with feces clothing and bed linens on chairs that had been there for a day or so by the smell. All the restrooms that I used (4 or 5) were no better than “scary” gas stations restrooms.

Our family member had been there without food, an IV or bathing for 2 days. His breathing was labored and was not monitored, nor noticed by staff, until his wife pointed it out and suggested oxygen that they promptly used and found fluid around his lungs that was not there when he was admitted. With us there we were able to get the attention and care for him. The doctors and nurses all rotate, so you don’t have the opportunity to have the same ones.

It is such a shame that our country’s great heroes are treated in these manner. I have been in Mexico and see different hospitals there; this hospital is only a small step up from those. Other hospitals in our area are great by comparison.

The HMO’s our family has used in the past are better than this. Our current family health coverage through my husbands work is perfect and affordable for our family. We get to choose our doctors and have the coverage that we need.

This is representative of how the government manages health care…. God help us if all the hospitals in the US become government run. They will be like this!!!

I am sending this to everyone in our address books and asking them to contact their representatives to vote “NO” for US run Health Care.

Please vote NO, too!!!

Sincerely,

Kristine Farley

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