Same-Sex Marriage Secret Augusta Meeting Press Release By Christian Civic League of Maine Staff Dec 4, 2009 - 3:46:26 PM

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The Christian Civic League of Maine has issued the following press release about the Maine Senate President's upcoming meeting aimed at legalizing homosexual marriage, in defiance of the voters of Maine:

The Christian Civic League of Maine has learned that Maine Senate President Elizabeth H. (Libby) Mitchell (Democrat - Kennebec County) is planning to hold a closed-door, high-level strategy meeting at her legislative office in the Capitol with the leading proponents of homosexual marriage in the state.  The meeting is planned for Wednesday, December 9th, and will discuss strategies for winning homosexual marriage following the repeal of Maine's same-sex marriage law.  The meeting will be attended by State Senator Mitchell; Zachary L. (Zach) Heiden, Legal Director of the Maine Civil Liberties Union; Betsy Smith, Executive Director of EqualityMaine; and Katherine R. (Kate) Knox, an attorney for the Portland-based law firm Bernstein Shur, Sawyer, & Nelson and lobbyist for EqualityMaine.

The Senate President's meeting with the director of legal affairs for the Maine Civil Liberties Union and an attorney for the state's most powerful law firm strongly suggests that the proponents of homosexual marriage will soon mount an effort to win  homosexual marriage through the courts, in clear defiance of the expressed will of the people of Maine.

The Christian Civic League of Maine calls on the Senate President to open this meeting to the press and to the public.  Deliberating on this matter in secret contravenes the most basic principle of our democratic form of government: that all matters concerning the public will be discussed openly and freely.  The secretive nature of the meeting is all the more regrettable since homosexual marriage is the most important issue ever to be taken up by Maine's Legislature.

The Christian Civic League pledges to continue its efforts to relentlessly oppose any attempt by the liberal establishment to impose the institution of homosexual marriage on the people of Maine. 

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