We are pleased to announce that The Record will now include stories by veteran reporter Larry Grard.  Larry will report from the front lines of the battle to protect the unborn, the most important moral struggle ever to confront Maine. 

We are grateful for Larry's important contribution to the cause of marriage and the family, and we are honored he chose The Record as the place to publish his insightful and informative work. Welcome aboard, Larry!

When bullies lose arguments, they quickly turn to blows. Homosexual activists, having lost the public debate on same marriage, are now resorting to heavy-handed methods to intimidate and silence their opponents. 

On Election Day, when it became apparent that same sex marriage was going to suffer a historic loss in Maine, Jesse Connolly,  leader of the No on 1 campaign, said the following: “We will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives.” Many heard Connolly's remarks as a clear threat to the safety of those who had voted against gay marriage. Three days later, a death threat was phoned in to Mike Heath, the former Executive Director of the Christian Civic League who had led Maine's twenty-year long effort to head off homosexual marriage. The threat came from an out-of-state man who claimed to be "armed" "gay" and "had Heath for his next target."

The annual Hands around the Capitol Rally and March took place this past Saturday in Augusta. The annual event, which is organized by Maine Right to Life, is intended as a public expression of mourning for the loss of life caused by abortion since the passage of the Supreme Court decision  Rowe v. Wade.

To judge from the standing-room only crowd, the Pro-Life movement is growing rapidly. The crowd was larger than in earlier years, and was estimated at 400 - 500 people. Further evidence for the growing strength of the Pro-Life movement are the buses going to the March for Life event in Washington on January 20 - 23rd. Seats on the buses have already been fully booked, and there is a waiting list for cancellations.

Homosexual rights activists are breathing a sigh of relief now that a vocal same sex marriage supporter has been convicted for manslaughter in a court in Portland. They are wrong to think this story is now going to go away. A picture of the crime is emerging which may shock the public above and beyond their already horrified reaction.

The Record is concerned about certain missing information in the case. Specifically, the crime was not reported to police until 8:00 pm on the day of the killing, allowing LaVallee-Davidson ample time to remove evidence from the locked ten-by-ten foot room called "The Dungeon." Curiously, much of the evidence related to the crime was not removed, including various paraphernalia and a computer. The question arises, just what did LaVallee-Davidson remove from the room known as the 'Dungeon?' and what was on the computer?

In January last year, the homosexual rights lobby used Senator Dennis Damon to introduce a bill to legalize same sex marriage. Not only did the bill legalize same sex marriage, it made all terms pertaining to the family, words such as 'husband and wife', 'father and mother,' gender neutral. It was a travesty to introduce such a bill at a time of deep economic crisis, a fact acknowledged by Governor John Baldacci, the most liberal governor in Maine history.
 
The bill was shepherded through the Maine Legislature by Larry Bliss, a homosexual activist from California, now head of the Judiciary Committee. During the campaign to repeal the law, the No on 1 side offered a sanitized view of same sex marriage, marketing their product with commercials which showed 'married' homosexual couples and their children, all smiling, healthy, and content in a typical Maine setting.