Not only has the Administration sued to block our military from voting, but now there is evidence that the President doesn’t have the decency to personally sign letters of condolences to the families of our fallen warriors. Is making the afternoon tee time that important?
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Op-Ed by Erick Bennett on Same-Sex Marriage
Andy, I am sending this op ed out to all the mainstream media newspapers, would you please publish it in your website. Thank you.“Do you want to allow the state of Maine to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples?”This is what the referendum question will ask Mainer’s voting November 6th to do.
Same sex couples have registered their wedding ceremonies with the state and received certified copies licensing that union since 2004.
A license is a permit where you must be registered with the state to have a wedding ceremony and join together in legal matrimony to get benefits.
The word “register” means an official record with the state.
Same sex couples have been able to join together in legal matrimony in Maine for 8 years with the same rights and benefits as everyone else such as inheriting their spouses property, adopt children, considered next of kin when making funeral arrangements, serve as guardian or conservator of spouses property if their spouse becomes incapacitated, visit their spouse in the hospital, purchase health insurance for their spouse if that employer provides benefits, take up to ten weeks of unpaid leave if their spouse or child is sick or dying and submit to a town clerk their spouses absentee ballot to vote.
Clearly, same sex couples already get licenses despite political rhetoric.
Marriage is not a right. You need a license to get married. You don’t need a license for your rights.
Special interest groups are not spending 5 million dollars to pass a law to get a drivers, hunting, fishing or marriage license.
All which can be revoked by the state.
This is about our rights, not special rights but taking away rights we already have such as our 1st,10th and 14th Amendment rights.
Same sex marriage is being used to attack our Constitutional rights state by state.
Here’s how.
Same sex marriage will change the legal definition from “one man and one woman” to Person A and Person B making it meaningless.
This completes the transfer of power over this institution from the realm of ‘We the People’ and grants full control to the state which strikes at the heart of our First Amendment.
Here’s why.
Redefining marriage will allow gay rights groups to join a class action law suit with Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Iowa against the federal government claiming discrimination.
This lawsuit bypasses Congress to go before the Supreme Court which will strike at the heart of the 10th Amendment which is states rights.
This class action lawsuit will allow non citizens to collect welfare and free healthcare which strikes at the heart of the 14th Amendment, which is what it means to be an American citizen.
This is not about love, it is about the law and the changes this law will make to our government and our rights.
Let’s look at the buzzword “equality“ they are using, it is a terrific clue as to the kind of government they are talking about.
Gay marriage is a global agenda and when they speak about “equality” they are talking about making America equal with the rest of the world, hence, the need to eliminate free speech, states rights and what it means to be an American citizen.
Eleven other countries have passed gay marriage, Argentina, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, South Africa and Sweden.
Passing gay marriage is not the only thing they have in common, they are also ranked the most socialist countries on earth.
So what does socialism have to do with same sex marriage?
To understand that we need to know what socialism is.
Socialism is a political and economic theory that believes that government should control everything. It is a stage between overthrowing capitalism and creating a communist government.
Same sex marriage is a cover so politicians can play political football in the attempt to score votes and grow government.
What voters need to understand is in Maine everything is already fair and equal.
The last thing we want to do is use a corrupt tax code to justify passing a law that takes away our Constitutional rights for the sake of changing our government to make America “equal” with the rest of the world.
For these reasons vote no to same sex marriage on November 6th.
Erick Bennett is a political consultant and strategist that owns FNX Enterprises which offer public relations and full service multi media marketing and advertising. He created the Maine Equal Rights Center campaign and the Three Point Plan specifically for this years referendum question. For more information please visithttp://www.facebook.com/l/IAQFgw2tkAQFnY838KuDf0ZzX1u5UVWapol_Y_-naFz1zXg/www.maineequalrightscenter.com
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By Erick Bennett
Wind in His Sails
Maine’s “King of Stealth” should also be called the “King of Subsidized Wealth”. Not only did Angus King take a governing budget with a surplus and turn it into burdensome budget deficit before he left office as Governor, he also accomplished something far more heinous and detrimental to the well being of Maine residents statewide in keeping with his own selfish desires. While hardworking Mainers toiled to free their State from the debt that King had incurred, the former Governor insured their labors would also make him very, very rich by introducing, promoting and signing into law legislation mandating wind power.
King’s law dictated to the State of Maine that 30% of its energy source must be wind. Then the former Governor quickly formed a wind energy company called Independence Wind. King then shamefully protected himself from any of the normal financial risk of a start-up company by securing a taxpayer backed loan guarantee. Instead of using his own money and risking personal loss, King obtained from President Obama a loan for 102 million dollars, yes, the same program that loaned money to Solyndra on the backs of taxpayers. So on the front end King passes a law that requires Maine residents to purchase wind energy and pay the higher operating costs into a company he created. On the other end, King requires the taxpayer to pay to build his company that is providing the service that taxpayers are being forced by law to purchase. And the tax dollars are herded into the deep pockets of Angus King.
Ah, the luxuries of the monarchy. If the venture of Maine’s own “King of Wind” fails, the King is still wealthy and the peasants poorer. If the venture continues, the King is much richer and the peasants…well, still poorer due to the increase in their utilities bill. The most galling of all is the revelation by an investigation from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, that King should never have been given the money for his wind kingdom. He had enough of his “own” money to foot the bill. But King, the Stealth Democrat, and his Party Incognito, the Democrats, find it so much the more fulfilling to gamble on someone else’s money rather than their own.
While this scheme to exploit the earnings of taxpayers may seem like a boon of mandated wealth for Angus King, it has produced a visceral reaction from Maine voters. Surprisingly, the left wing media support system of Maine’s own monarch is befuddled by the negative response of Mainers. Those of us who prefer to embrace common sense will try to explain this turn of events in small words for them. Maine people prefer that you earn your wealth on your own, not steal your wealth from others.
The misdeeds of Maine’s “King of Subsidized Wealth” have produced another unexpected result. The great, glaring, white towers of tax-funded waste, King’s windmills, are now blowing winds of momentum into the sails of his challenger’s ship. Charlie Summers has steadily, week by week, closed the gap between King and himself until he now stands poised to topple the presumptive winner of the U.S. Senate seat from his throne. Angus King has long enjoyed the protection of his media allies but now must face the scrutiny of a grassroots organization, which is determined to use the unfettered Internet to expose his corruption and complete embrace of crony capitalism. As the truth of his sinister behavior is exposed to this State and the Nation, honest men and women, who vote, will want to know more about the not so honest behavior of a man who longs to garner their vote to further expand his own personal kingdom.
The King’s Throne is Tumbling
Marc Thiessen of the Washington Post writes an insightful article that probes into the recent downward spiral of Angus King’s popularity. It may be that the debt and corruption that Governor King laid upon the backs of Maine residents may not be as theoretical as he has led us to believe. With the winds of truth beginning to blow into the sails of the Charlie Summers campaign, perhaps there is hope for Maine after all.
The Maine Conservative Voice 