More Anti-Gay Marriage Lies in Maine

The one thing that is always a constant with the professional Christian set and their "pro-family" allies is that if their lips are moving, they are 9 times out of 10 lying. Of all the organizations I monitor without a doubt the most dishonest are the "Christian" organizations. The opponents of same sex marriage are cut out of the same cloth and proving themselves dishonest and willing to resort to any and all types of lies to convince the ignorant and uninformed to vote the way the Christianists want. It is enough to make one want to walk away from organized religion completely - as more and more Americans are doing - if these folks are evidence of what Christians are like. Fortunately some media outlets in Maine are running stories exposing the anti-gay organizations' dishonest, albeit not as forcefully as I'd like to see. Exposing deliberate lies and untruths disseminated by alleged Christians is NOT anti-religion. Indeed, I would argue allowing liars and modern day Pharisees to pollute religion is more damaging to religion in general. Here are some highlights from the Portland Press Herald:

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What may or may not be taught in Maine schools if the state's gay-marriage law is upheld by voters is once again becoming a central issue in the fight over Question 1. Opponents of same-sex marriage released a television ad Wednesday that features a Massachusetts couple who say their 7-year-old son was taught about gay marriage at school. The ad says that the same thing could happen in Maine if a state law legalizing gay marriage is not overturned by voters on Nov. 3.
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But the state Department of Education says that Maine standards are different from those in Massachusetts and that there are no mentions of marriage – heterosexual or homosexual – in Maine Learning Results. "A change in the definition of marriage in Maine changes nothing in terms of what schools can and must teach," said the department's spokesman, David Connerty-Marin. "There is nothing in there whatsoever that deals with marriage."
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The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals in Massachusetts agreed with the school system and disagreed with the parents that the school was attempting to "indoctrinate" their child. "Public schools are not obligated to shield individual students from ideas which potentially are religiously offensive, particularly when the school imposes no requirement that the student agree with or affirm those ideas or even participate in discussions about them," the justices wrote.

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Gay-marriage supporters say the ad is a retread of a similar commercial that aired in California when voters there rejected same-sex marriage. "The fact that the Yes campaign would literally repackage the same ad their California consultants used in California is a testament to the national outsiders pushing their agenda on the voters of Maine," said a prepared statement from Jesse Connolly, campaign manager for the No on 1 campaign.