Maine's "Christian Civic League": Gay marriage is next!

[Bluebear]

Note that this whole tempest is about an anti-discrimination law, not anything about gay marriage, but the Christian Civic League's director says this is ALL THAT MATTERS! Not hunger, not Iraq, not tsunami victims...

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AUGUSTA: The Christian Civic League is campaigning to convince voters that if the gay rights bill recently passed by the Legislature is allowed to stand the next step will be gay marriage in Maine.

{b]"That's the only thing that matters," said Michael Heath, director of the Christian Civic League, about his organization's goal of "proving to the people of Maine that this whole debate has now come to what we said it was going to do, which is gay marriage."

The league is organizing a petition drive calling for a people's veto of the anti-discrimination law passed last week in the Legislature. It has until June 29 to collect 50,000 signatures in order to put the veto of the new law on the November ballot.

The law -- signed last Thursday by Gov. John Baldacci -- adds "sexual orientation" to the classes covered by the Maine Human Rights Act. State law already prohibits discrimination based on a person's race, age, gender, religion or disability when it comes to employment, credit, housing, education and public accommodations.

http://waldo.villagesoup.com/Government/story.cfm?storyID=33037

[Old and In the Way]

1. There time has come....

and gone. What so Christianly or civic about hating gays? As a Mainiac, I think this group reached their highwater mark 30 years ago.

[Bluebear]

2. Remember that loser Carolyn Cosby?

She was obsessed with this back in ths day, I recall.

[dsc]

3. I wouldn't say that

Didn't they veto a previous version of this law in the 1990's. You had better be prepared for one hell of a fight.

[Old and In the Way]

5. Anything's possible....

but I really don't think people will follow the CCL up here.....they are rather reactionary.

[dsc]

7. I thought they won once before on this very issue

I hope you are correct but frankly most people don't think it is legal to discriminate against us so they think these laws are special rights.

[mongo]

4. When Fundie's can't discriminate

only Fundie's will be discriminated against.

[Lexingtonian]

6. sounds like a front group

You might be able to do some productive digging- at least find out the funding. Give GLAD a call, or (evidently) Maine Equality.