Gay Marriage in Maine: Ad campaign to be aired state-wide

You are quite welcome, and thank you! :)

You are very welcome, smkovalinsky! Would you mind adding the tag 'sexuality' so this story will also appear on NowPublic Sexuality Special News Coverage channel. Thanks!

Yes,  will ad that tag, and the story link now,  thanks!  

Again, you are very welcome:)!

Is the point of view here that the Obama Administration is changing its view?  I thought during the presidential campaigns he favored "civil union" but reserved "marriage" to be only between a man and woman.  I have not read where his position on this has changed.  

Few politicians have supported gay marriage, except for Gavin Newson mayor of San Francisco.  It is difficult for politicians to publically come out in favor of gay marriage and remain philosophically a centrist and not alienate the religious community.  There were divides on this even within my own family, and I do not discuss it.  My views are liberal, but my views are not shared among all my family.  I more or less take a centrist position just to keep the peace, and perhaps this is what people running for office have to do also.     

Leezer:  Well,  I guess that is a satirical comment.  There is a real divide in some parts of the world, as in Norway,  in which Muslim areas want no part of gay culture,  which is understandable given their adherence to ancient tradition.  In a free democracy and pluralitst society it is decidedly different.  

You are right,  Obama always adhered to civil unions.  They did not take him at his word, and are stunned that he did not change once elected.  Hence,  he only appears to have flip-flopped.  But this is the way the gay community experiences this,  or at least some of the activists who voted for Obama. 

Well,  it does not disgust everyone,  but in fairness to you,  there are serious and weighty social arguments against it,  both from the religious domain, and the secular.  

I would agree with amyjudd,  however,  that in a free and democratic society,  and one which claims to pluralism and multiculturalism,  tolerence and openess is a must.  

smkovalinsky I admire your reserve and magnanimity.

What is really disgusting is people who try and control the lives of others and project their prejudicial, bigoted views onto others.  Leezer, your use of the inclusive "we" is presumptious and offensive to those in this conversation and the gay community.   

Well, leezer,  your view is shared by some on the right,  some religious communities,  and especially,  Islaam.  This is why I could never understand the conservative hatred of Islaam,  which voices so much of what it cannot.  But in a progressive democracy,  where,  exactly,  is the disgust coming from?  It is not a natural disgust, or all would have it.  It is not the disgust one feels for rotting corpses, and universally repugnant things.  So I am assuming it is ideology,  religious or conservative.  Run these thoughts by Rush Limbaugh; see what he says.....Yes,  a211...,  I try to remain calm.......try......:(

"They demand acceptance..."

leezer

You are correct like the oppressed that have gone before them who have been marginalized because of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, and age.

*Heavy sigh.* :(

"Some historians have speculated that King may have been homosexual, and that he had a long-term intimate relationship with President-to-be James Buchanan (it is not disputed that the two lived together for 16 years in Washington). It is also said that King's detractors in the Senate referred to him as "Aunt fancy" and "Miss Nancy" (both language referring to homosexual men in the nineteenth century). The theory is controversial and a source of debate among Buchanan and King historians. Historian and author James Loewen is one of the theory's better-known proponents. Presidential historian Michael Beschloss when asked by C-SPAN founder and host Brian Lamm if the United States had ever had a gay president responded that the term "gay" was a twentieth century construct. Undeterred, Lamm rephrased his question, asking if the nation had had a homosexual president. Beschloss replied that it appears Buchanan and King may have been homosexual."

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Fascinating and relevant,  and yes,  the term is indeed a construct of postmodernism.  Thanks. 

Well,  obviously leezer, they are not going to take too kindly to your desire to get rid of them all,  now are they?