The headlines are alarming. Same-sex marriage threatens Maine families.

California 's top court overturns gay marriage ban

By LISA LEFF – May 15, 2008

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a monumental victory for the gay rights

movement, the California Supreme Court overturned a voter-approved

ban on gay marriage Thursday in a ruling that would allow same-sex

couples in the nation's biggest state to tie the knot.

New York to recognize out-of-state gay marriage

By MICHAEL GORMLEY – May 28, 2008

ALBANY , N.Y. (AP) — Same-sex marriages legally performed

elsewhere will be recognized in New York

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Equality Maine Press Release, May 15, 2008

“While same-sex couples in Maine are unaffected legally by this ruling,

we are hopeful that here in Maine , we will someday have the same

opportunity to solidify our families.” said Betsy Smith, Executive Director, EqualityMaine.

Marriage is as old as civilization itself. Consider the words of Augustine (354 – 430):

“The first natural bond of human society, therefore, is that of husband and wife. God did not create them as separate individuals...but he created one from the other, making the side, from which the woman was taken and formed, a sign of the strength of their union. For those who walk together, and look ahead together to where they are walking, do so at each other's side. The result is the bonding of society in its children."

    Augustine, “The Excellence of Marriage,” Marriage and Virginity, in The Works of Saint Augustine: A Translation for the 21st Century, pt. 1, vol. 1, trans. Ray Kearny, (Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, 1999), 33. In other translations see: Book 1, Chapter 1.

After centuries of this “bonding of society”, secular progressives are entering into a social experiment that will have a tsunami affect on generations of Americans. We must preserve marriage in Maine! Our actions now will be judged by generations to come. 

To join the Maine Marriage Alliance, email your name and address to allianceweb@mainemarriageamendment.com
Please put "Maine Marriage Alliance" in the subject line. 

Proposed Amendment to the Maine Constitution

“Inasmuch as marriage is the legal union of only one man and one woman as husband and wife, no other legal union that is treated as marriage or the substantial equivalent thereof shall be valid or recognized.”