The Christian Civic League of Maine has issued the following press release on the failure of the same sex marriage movement to repudiate the remarks of Bruce LaVallee-Davidson, a convicted killer who testified in favor of the proposed same sex marriage law during the public hearing held at the Augusta Civic Center on April 22nd, 2009.
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.
It took an act of brazen hypocrisy for the truth to be revealed. The public discovered that one of the proponents of same sex marriage testified in favor of gay marriage shortly after killing a man during a night of drug and alcohol-fueled debauchery. During the hearing on same sex marriage, Bruce LaVallee-Davidson stood alongside his partner 'Buck' and claimed he was "already married in the eyes of God."
Some independent observers, including those who support same sex marriage, have claimed LaVallee-Davidson's remarks taint the entire same sex marriage movement, and that the leadership of that movement must move quickly to disown his call for gay marriage. We at the Christian Civic League of Maine agree.
We wish to give the leaders of the same sex marriage movement a fair chance to explain why they have not already repudiated the remarks of Bruce LaVallee-Davidson. Let them step forward and state forthrightly why they have been reluctant to call LaVallee-Davidson's actions by their right name - perversion.
The Christian Civic League of Maine calls on Equality Maine, Senator Larry Bliss, Senator Dennis Damon, Senate President Libby Mitchell, The Maine Civil Liberties Union, and Jesse Connolly, to take this opportunity to clear the air. Let them explain how LaVallee-Davidson could state he was 'married in the eyes of God' after a night of tenfold depravity - tenfold because his actions that night involved two guns, five drugs, and three men - one of whom is now dead.
Let the leaders of the same sex marriage movement use this opportunity to explain why sadomasochistic organizations march in their parades under the name of PRIDE. Let them also explain the extent and prevalence of illegal drugs in their community.
Absent such an explanation, the public will be left with the impression that the call for 'gay marriage' is nothing more than a sinister ruse, since LaVallee-Davidson's own claim to marriage, like the claim to marriage made by many other homosexuals, was built on a foundation of appalling perversion. Worse, the failure to speak out against such perversion will be seen as a tacit admission that such practices are not an aberration in their community, but rather, a normal and accepted part of their everyday life.
