Maine: “Yes on 1″ Ad Uses Boston College Professor and Same Ridiculous Lies as Yes on 8 Campaign
I can’t believe they’re pulling the same BS there as they did here. Can’t they at least come up with some new material?
The only consequences of not passing Question 1 are equal marriage rights for same-sex couples and equal rights/privileges and their families. Other people are not affected one iota by same-sex marriage except in their own demented minds.
There will be no “flood of lawsuits” resulting from legal same-sex marriage. This is a bogeyman cooked up by the anti-equality brigades. Every lawsuit they ever cite here and elsewhere has nothing to do with same-sex marriage but with violations of anti-discrimination laws. Anti-discrimination laws are completely independent of same-sex marriage and will exist whether or not same-sex marriage is legal. Eradicating the right of same-sex couples to marry will do nothing about lawsuits related to anti-discrimination laws.
Churches cannot be, and never have been, forced to marry anybody, whether they be same-sex couples or opposite sex couples. Churches can and do refuse to marry couples all the time. They refuse to marry couples who are of different faiths, of no faith, or who don’t comply with whatever rules they set down in their particular church. The claim that churches will be “forced” to marry gay couples is another lie.
As to the “children will learn about gay marriage” refrain, if parents can’t handle the idea that their children will discover gay people exist they shouldn’t send them to public schools. Public schools are just that–public. If some people want their kids to grow up thinking everybody in the world is a straight white Christian, and never being exposed to reality, there are special places for them to do that.
The people of Maine need to do what the people of California didn’t; see through these lies and refuse to vote away the rights of a maligned minority. Vote NO on 1.
