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.

An audiotape of the September meeting of  the Maine State Gambling Control Board reveals that - in the words of one board member - the board has "given Hollywood Slots everything it asked for." The audiotape also reveals a board which takes a compliant  approach towards requests from Hollywood Slots, and a board chairman who seems eager to cater to the whims of the owners of the gambling establishment in Bangor. 

In the final minutes before the vote on the gay marriage bill, State Senator Debra Plowman rose from her seat and delivered a stinging rebuke to those legislators who had criticized people of faith in the debate over gay marriage. She also pointed out that if the ill-advised bill passed, people of faith would be compelled by law to approve of conduct that violates the deepest principles of their faith. 

In the vote on same sex marriage in May, at least two votes were cast for personal reasons. One such 'yes' vote was cast by Senator Larry Bliss, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. Another 'yes' vote was cast by Representative Terry Morrison.

The highly controversial same sex marriage bill was the most hotly-contested bill in the history of the Maine Legislature. Many memorable statements came out of the debate on the bill, but no commentary  was better reasoned or more persuasive than the following remarks by Representative David C. Burns, a former Maine State Trooper.

State Senator Larry Bliss, a homosexual activist from California, is recognized as the driving force behind the same sex marriage law. In the debate which led up to the vote on the law, Bliss made many astonishing claims. Bliss made the following remarks during a debate on the bill in the Maine Legislature on April 30th.  After the final vote took place, Bliss was made President of the Senate for a day so he could sign the law on behalf of the other senators.

John Baldacci's presence at a posh fundraiser in Portland for same sex marriage is not going unnoticed. It is being widely touted in the gay blogosphere, and newspapers which cater to the homosexual subculture.