Homosexual rights activists in Maine are careful to give the impression that the push for same sex marriage has broad-based support. But is the push for same sex marriage really non-ideological and bipartisan?

A recently published list of co-sponsors of Senator Damon's same sex marriage bill shows that support for the bill is almost exclusively Democrat. Admittedly, the power of the bill to divide the people of Maine is very great.  Even Governor Baldacci distanced himself from Senator Damon's bill when he warned in a press release that the bill would be divisive at a time of great economic crisis. We agree.

DEMOCRATS (SENATE)

Alfond, Justin, Cumberland County, District 8;  Bartlett, Phillip,  Cumberland County, District 6; Bliss, Larry, Cumberland County, District 7;  Brannigan, Joseph, Cumberland County, District 8; Damon, Dennis, Hancock County, District 28; Gerzofsky, Stan, Cumberland County, District 10; Nutting, John, Androscoggin County, District 17; Sullivan, Nancy, York County, District 4; Bowman, Peter, York County, Distr. 1.

DEMOCRATS (HOUSE)

Herbert C. Adams (D-Portland), Paulette G. Beaudoin (D-Biddeford), Seth A. Berry (D-Bowdoinham), Anna D. Blodgett (D-Augusta), Steven J. Butterfield II(D-Bangor), Emily Ann Cain (D-Orono), Michael E. Carey (D-Lewiston), Joan F. Cohen (D-Portland), Gary A. Connor (D-Kennebunk) , Alexander Cornell du Houx (D-Brunswick), Patsy Crockett (D-Augusta), Cynthia A. Dill (D-Cape Elizabeth), Robert N. Eaton (D-Sullivan), Jane E. Eberle (D-South Portland), Mark Eves (D-North Berwick), Elspeth Flemings (D-Bar Harbor), Adam Goode(D-Bangor),  Charles W. Harlow (D-Portland). Anne M. Haskell (D-Portland), Jon Hinck (D-Portland), Robert B. Hunt (D-Buxton), Melissa Walsh Innes (D-Yarmouth), Bryan T. Kaenrath (D-South Portland), Edward P. Legg (D-Kennebunk), Stephen D. Lovejoy (D-Portland), W. Bruce MacDonald (D-Boothbay), John L. Martin (D-Eagle Lake), Jeff M. McCabe (D-Skowhegan), Terry K. Morrison (D-South Portland), Mary P. Nelson (D-Falmouth), Mary P. Nelson (D-Falmouth), Andrew Roesing O'Brien (D-Lincolnville), Peggy A. Pendleton (D-Scarborough), Ann E. Peoples (D-Westbrook), Leila J. Percy (D-Phippsburg),  Anne C. Perry (D-Calais), Donald E. Pilon (D-Saco), Hannah M. Pingree (D-North Haven), Benjamin Marriner Pratt (D-Eddington), Charles R. Priest (D-Brunswick), Diane Russell (D-Portland), Linda F. Sanborn (D-Gorham), James M. Schatz (D-Blue Hill), Nancy E. Smith (D-Monmouth), Sara R. Stevens(D-Bangor), Peter C. Stuckey (D-Portland),  Sharon A. Treat (D-Hallowell),  Pamela Jabar Trinward (D-Waterville), Linda M. Valentino (D-Saco), Richard V. Wagner (D-Lewiston), Thomas R. Watson (D-Bath), David Webster (D-Freeport), Joan W. Welsh (D-Rockport).

TRIBAL REPRESENTATIVES

Wayne T. Mitchell (Penobscot Nation); Donald G. Soctomah (Passamaquoddy Tribe)

REPUBLICAN (SENATE)

None

REPUBLICAN (HOUSE)

Meredith N. Strang Burgess (R-Cumberland)