Posted by
KsReaganite on Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:42:54 PM
In this off-year, we still have three marquee statewide elections coming up. Two such races-the gubernatorial ones in VA and NJ-have been covered extensively by the traditional new outlets. The third one, arguably the only one with long-term impact on our social fabric, remains largely ignored except for the protagonists on the ground.
I speak of the referendum Question One in Maine that seeks to restore the customary definition of marriage, which was changed earlier this year by politicians in the pockets of leftwing special interests. Special interests have not taken the gauntlet, thrown openly when regular Maine folks gathered 100,000 signatures to put the question to ballot, lightly or in good grace. Millions in money, tens of thousands in services, and hundreds in staff have been deployed from California, Washington DC, Boston, and New York to fight the old fashioned notions of the regular people of Maine. All the big name corporations, bar associations, East Coast special interest outfits, and the Maine political establishment are firmly arrayed in support of imposing the Hollywood definition of marriage on the rock ribbed good folks in the state. No amount of scare tactics or misleading PR is enough for these powerful Goliaths of the Establishment.
It matters. From a purely political perspective, keeping the definition of marriage intact in a deep blue state like Maine would be a powerful coda to the Proposition 8 victory in equally blue California. Such a victory would firmly underline the truism that that Americans across the political and geographic spectrum deeply believe in the sanctity of marriage.
Beyond the immediate political angle, the momentum from a Question One victory will slow down the intense drive by the ruling elite to impose-via judicial means or otherwise-its own definition of m across the country. In other words, a victory in Maine will give a new breather of life to the concept of representative democracy.
Far more important, however, is the issue of individual and parental rights. States where gay ‘marriage’ is legal, can and do require children as young as toddlers to learn about it. Parents do not have the right, contrary to the propaganda of the other side, to opt their kids out of classes that conflict with their values. Those objecting to strenuously about imparting their own values to their children can go to jail (Parker v. Hurley).
The electoral battle in Maine is one that impacts us and our liberties. Ordinary people like you and I are standing up there in defense of their right to live, work, and raise their families in accordance with their deeply held beliefs. The opposition is well organized, well funded, well equipped, and comprised of a grand list of Who’s Who in corporations, bar associations, journalists, and special interests. On the other side, defending the sanctity of marriage and the right of people to live their conscience is a loose alliance of ordinary, everyday men and women from across Maine. They fight a battle at a place where America literally begins, a battle waged on behalf of all of our rights all across the country.
Lend these brave Mainers a hand, if you will. This is their website where you can read the story and rationale behind Question One, and donate a few dollars to the worthy cause of defending the very basis of any self-perpetuating civilized society.
This is Maine's electoral battle...but America's civilizational one.