Baldacci Signs Same-Sex Marriage Into Law

Portland Press Herald ^ | 5/6/09 | Matt Wickenheiser

[concerned about politics]

I think it’s more than psychological - it’s spiritual as well.

The only life they have left in them is their frontal lobes (to hunt for sex) and the point at the bottom of their spinal column (where they feel the sex). Everything else is numb.

[Paved Paradise]

Now you are just being mean spirited.

[windsorknot]

Same-sex “marriage” is like a frosty Hell or a hot winter’s day.

[SoldierDad]

"I have come to believe that this is a question of fairness and ofequal protection under the law, and that a civil union is not equal to civil marriage."

Sorry cretin, but a "homosexual marriage" will never be equal to a Heterosexual marriage. Can these people pro-create? NO!!!! How can you with a straight face say this is about equality when none exists and cannot exist?

[gidget7]

So true. Maybe we should get Churches to perform “Holy Matrimony” ceremonies, apart from the state, having nothing to do with the state, even without a state license. Married in the eyes of God, not the depraved Govt.

[Bokababe]

"Cardinal Caro Y Rodriguez published The Mystery of Freemasonry Unveiled in 1925"

Oh please, not this anti-Masonic, Illuminati crap!

The Masons were essentially a collective organization of Protestants whose mission was to counter the political power of the Roman Catholic Church in earlier times. (Individually Protestants were weak, but collectively they were strong.) Hence a Catholic "Cardinal" trying to paint Masons as "belonging to Lucifer".

A substantial number of our Founding Fathers were Freemasons and the last POTUS to be a Freemason was Gerald Ford. Seems to me that we have gone down in the world, not come up, since they aren't around much anymore.

[Claud]

the fate of the Roman Catholic church in the 16th century when it ignored Leviticus (i.e. would not annul Henry VIII’s marriage, causing a catastrophic schism)

Eh? So the princes of the Catholic Church merited God's wrath for NOT annulling a marriage? Not because of worldliness, ambition, profligacy, all that?

Interesting.

[concerned about politics]

Now you are just being mean spirited.

No I'm not. I read it in a medical holistic book.

[pleasenoobama]

I suspect a rise in Libertarian voters this coming election. All three parties (D,R,L) will still trash America with this crap, but at least the Libertarians won't force us to pay for the mess it's going to create afterwords.

The Libertarian Party's platform makes it sound as if it supports either gay marriage or no marriage at all, in a roundabout way:

1.3 Personal Relationships

Sexual orientation, preference, gender, or gender identity should have no impact on the rights of individuals by government, such as in current marriage, child custody, adoption, immigration or military service laws. Consenting adults should be free to choose their own sexual practices and personal relationships. Government does not have the authority to define, license or restrict personal relationships.

[concerned about politics]

Oh please, not this anti-Masonic, Illuminati crap!

Everything in the letter about WW1 is correct. Everything about WW11 is correct, Why not WW111?

[concerned about politics]

The Libertarian Party's platform makes it sound as if it supports either gay marriage or no marriage at all, in a roundabout way:

So do Republican and Democrats. My point is the (D) and (R) will make us pay for the infections and diseases of the homosexual lifestyle, and the Libertarians won't. Other than that, I don't see much difference between all three.

[pleasenoobama]

So do Republican and Democrats. My point is the (D) and (R) will make us pay for the infections and diseases of the homosexual lifestyle, and the Libertarians won't. Other than that, I don't see much difference between all three.

The Republican Party platform:

Preserving Traditional Marriage

Because our children’s future is best preserved within the traditional understanding of marriage, we call for a constitutional amendment that fully protects marriage as a union of a man and a woman, so that judges cannot make other arrangements equivalent to it. In the absence of a national amendment, we support the right of the people of the various states to affirm traditional marriage through state initiatives.

[concerned about politics]

The Republican Party platform: Preserving Traditional Marriage

Well now, I wouldn't count on that. The New and Improved Republican listening tour wants Republicans to have a bigger tent. They want what democrats have. No social conservatives and...... Power!

I guess we'll have to wait and see what direction they decide to take. Ours, or the Lucifer lefties.

[Bokababe]

"Everything in the letter about WW1 is correct. Everything about WW11 is correct, Why not WW111?"

According to you, his book was written in 1925. By that time, WWI had already been over for 7 years, so he was writing about the past.

And 1925 is also the same year that Hitler wrote Mein Kampf, outlining his future plans for Germany. Not a great leap to guess that they'd come to pass.

This is hardly some kind of great "prophecy". It's a review of the past and some good guesses on potential future conflicts. My problem is who he blames -- it's one thing to talk about those who attend Bilderberg Conferences, because they are powerful people who really exist. But the Illuminati & their evil plans? They only exist in Dan Brown novels & some RC imaginations!

[pleasenoobama]

Well now, I wouldn't count on that. The New and Improved Republican listening tour wants Republicans to have a bigger tent. They want what democrats have. No social conservatives and...... Power!

I guess we'll have to wait and see what direction they decide to take. Ours, or the Lucifer lefties.

I'm only talking about the official platforms. That said, I have noticed no trend of Republicans favoring gay "marriage", no matter what other many problems I have with them.

[concerned about politics]

it's one thing to talk about those who attend Bilderberg Conferences, because they are powerful people who really exist. But the Illuminati & their evil plans? They only exist in Dan Brown novels & some RC imaginations!

Well, I don't know. I think there's probably more than one group who wants to control the world. Heck, the Oboma administration is trying to do it!

Behind every lie or conspiracy theory there's a little bit of truth to make it believable. I think there are people out there with cash who have the same motives as the Bilderbergs. They may not be as big,.... but........I believe they're out there, and it's not always the cash that gets things done.

[seatrout]

Well ... that too!

[GOP_Party_Animal]

Interesting how your hatred of Catholics causes you to lump them in with the brutal Pharaohs, the Sodomites, and the genocidal Soviets. You do side with Henry the 8th though, agreeing with his assessment that he should be granted an annulment. Nice.

[srweaver]

To the unbeliever, marriage is a contract.

To the believer, it is a covenant.

Big difference.

[seatrout]

—Interesting how your hatred of Catholics causes you to lump them in with the brutal Pharaohs, the Sodomites, and the genocidal Soviets. You do side with Henry the 8th though, agreeing with his assessment that he should be granted an annulment. Nice.—

No, no, just the opposite in fact (and I’m sorry if that’s the impression I made)! All I’m saying is that maybe they got it wrong (made a big mistake IOW) when they let him marry his brother’s widow (thus ignoring Leviticus), and then wouldn’t annul the wedding (ignoring Leviticus yet again)—for political reasons. It would have been better for Catholicism if “Burly King Harry” got his annulment; protestantism (and I’m not knocking that either) would not have spread over the English-speaking world as it did had England not gone “reformed.” This is a huge “what if”, I realize.