Both sides of the debate over same sex marriage are eager to claim that their side is a grassroots effort. Hence television ads are carefully crafted to have an authentic Maine feel, with crusty old codgers, a lighthouse or two, and yes! a pine-covered island. For example, Senator Larry Bliss, filmed his campaign videos on Willard Beach in South Portland, in front of Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse. Bliss, by the way, is a homosexual activist from Los Angeles, and is the real power behind the same sex marriage law in Maine.
All this raises a very important question. Who is the ultimate authority on what marriage should be? Is it a lobsterman packing a crate of lobsters, as a recent "No on 1" television ad shows? How about a gay couple on a tractor? Are they more expert on the subject of marriage than say a marriage counselor from Chicago, or a professor of Bible Studies from Des Moines? Or is a homosexual activist from Los Angeles, Larry Bliss, the greatest authority of all?
Maine's referendum on same sex marriage has no lack of self-proclaimed experts on marriage. Still, voters have a reasonable expectation that a state referendum will be carried out by people from their own state. Not so in the campaign for same sex marriage. Many of the principal figures on the "No on 1" side are from out-of-state. The RECORD was the first news outlet to break the story that activists from California are travelling to Maine to help swing the vote in favor of homosexual marriage. This includes many individuals from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Since then, the out-of-state effort to influence a Maine referendum has snowballed. Much of the credit belongs to Paul Hogarth, a prominent homosexual rights activist from San Francisco. Paul Hogarth recently posted the following comment online:
"Proposition 8 was eminently beatable, but our side ran a bad campaign – and I’m determined to take my work and experience to assist the effort in Maine….. It is time to deliver them ... a humiliating defeat, one with national implications …"
Hogarth went on to state that he has joined with former Obama campaign officials to create a "Travel for Change Maine" website. The logo of the website (shown
at right) copies the Obama campaign logo, but covers the outline of the United States with a rainbow flag. The director of the organization which runs the website is Jay Jonah Cash, who was Out-of-State Director for the organization "San Francisco for Obama." The Managing Director of the organization, Alisa Whitfield, claims that "Travel for Change" was created in coordination with the Obama campaign.
Which is further evidence that the push for gay marriage is not a grassroots effort. It is not even a movement run by homosexuals. It is a creature of the liberal establishment, and has as its goal the extension of power over the individual. To the extent that children are no longer raised by their biological parents, they become the possession of the state. As the influence of the family wanes, the power of government increases, and this is another real danger of the homosexual rights movement.
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