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.

In a scene straight out of Caligula's palace or one of Nero's infamous garden parties,  Maine's Governor Baldacci  dined with same sex marriage supporters in Boston, while a pair of  homosexual acrobats, suspended from the ceiling by a sash, twirled round and round in the air, their colorful capes flowing out behind them. The $225 per plate affair was intended to honor politicians who have done the most to help the cause of same sex marriage, and came less than two weeks after the repeal of the same sex marriage law by the voters of Maine. 

Following the repeal of Maine's same sex marriage law, the public heard many angry comments from gay activists who claimed religion was the deciding factor in their loss.  Religion was indeed an important consideration for many voters, but it is not generally known that during the debate over the same sex marriage law, legislators in Augusta made frequent reference to their own religious principles. The following quotes, excerpted from speeches made in the Maine Legislature, show that lawmakers often invoked religion to justify their positions for or against gay marriage. The quotes provide a fascinating insight into the thinking of our lawmakers, and are on occasion unintentionally amusing, or in the case of the remarks by the Senate President, tragic.

The Capitol Building was blanketed in white Wednesday, as snow and wind forced the postponement of a controversial meeting between Maine Senate President Elizabeth H. (Libby) Mitchell (Democrat - Kennebec County) and the leader of the state's largest homosexual rights organization. The secret, closed-door meeting came to light after a memo was released to the Christian Civic League as part of an investigation into the close cooperation between certain legislators and the homosexual rights movement. The title of the memo "Next Step" indicates that the meeting was going to be a strategy session on how to win gay marriage in Maine, despite the recent referendum in which a majority of voters voted to repeal the existing same sex marriage law.

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 office in the Capitol with the leading proponents of homosexual marriage in the state on Wednesday, December 9th.  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 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 Christian Civic League of Maine has issued the following press release  on the success of the People's Veto of the same sex marriage law. The League thanks its faithful friends and supporters for all they have done to protect marriage  and the families of Maine. 
 
The Christian Civic League of Maine welcomes the news of the win on Question 1. Shortly before the election, the League predicted that homosexual marriage would eventually be decisively and finally defeated. The League saw that the common sense of the people, combined with the Biblical truth about homosexuality would win out over any cynical manipulation of the political process.

Three leaders of the pro-family movement appeared at a press conference in Augusta on Wednesday to expose the hidden agenda of the same sex marriage movement. The press conference was heavily attended by reporters who in addition to hearing the unvarnished truth about the homosexual rights movement, got a much-needed lecture on journalistic ethics. 

After the three pro-family leaders huddled for prayer, Paul Madore, director of the Maine Grassroots Coalition opened the press conference by saying that the campaign for homosexual marriage was like a Hollywood production, "a "Rocky" movie in which the referee is on the fight." Throughout the press conference, Madore faulted the media for their blatantly obvious double standard in the battle over homosexual marriage.