Same Sex "Marriage" is not a Civil Right in Maine

[kellyannabama]

I'm so happy people are being honest Gay rights is not a civil rights issue...

[MurfQ]

Seriously, you can't change being black but you can change being gay. I have just two words to say to that, Michael Jackson!

[theknowbody]

It's so sad that these people haven't learned that discrimination is wrong.

In the USA every adult has the right to work, the right to vote and should have the right to marry whom they want.

Marriage Equality is an American Value.

[amanda601]

god bless these gentlemen for standing and speaking against the oppessors.

[BoredomCorner]

Oppressors? Give me a fucking break you hypocrite.

No one who STEALS rights away from a persecuted group, has any place crying "We're oppressed!"

America is *NOT* a nation for Christians only. Read the damn Constitution sometime.

[demarcomixon]

These guys are on the video are redickulous!!!! So are there no gay Black people? i know as a gay black guy most black men think its wrong.

[sammehwhoreface]

I cannot understand why some black people seem to portray the idea that they own civil rights. Civil rights apply to everyone and black people are not the only people to have a movement. It really confuses me to see one minority attacking another.

[kenballer00]

your analogy to homosexuality and race is misguided. being gay may or may not be a choice but living the gay lifestyle is a choice and that's why we are here. the government doesn't ask you whether you are gay or straight. sexual orientation has nothing to do with the issue.you can't compare an immutable characteristic (race gender etc) to somebody's behavior. A lifestyle is not a minority. Jews, blacks, and women were discriminated against for who they were not for who they were having sex with

[sammehwhoreface]

It has been proven however, that not expressing your sexuality and repressing it is extremely damaging to a person's mental well being. Sexuality is a major hard wired part of us and is extremely important. To deny this is to deny science and scientific study itself. Based on these facts, the government and some people need to get a grip, and realise we aren't as bad as some would like to make out.

[BoredomCorner]

What the hell is the "gay lifestyle"?

All I see gays doing is socializing with people like them, and trying to have the same freedoms that everyone else takes for granted, including marrying their life partners.

For you to say that there's no similarity, shows you neither know nor care what you're talking about.

[demarcomixon]

well as a black person and a gay person i can feel both sides. I really dont think its a civil right, nobody is stoping us from marrying a woman. But i would like to get married to a guy.

[kellyannabama]

@demarcomixon i agree gay rights isnt civil rights... And i hate the way the media is letting these people hijack the movement of blacks when so many of them are still living in red line districtions and receiving a 2nd class education...

[jerrydoubleu]

marriage is a right and i'm done begging for equality

[NarutoHyuga]

Wow to the dumbass at the the beginning

- You don't choose to love someone, not like you choose your whores every monday evening. Nothing like minorities discriminating against other minorities!

....Is it just me or is this black supremacy. Honestly no one gives a shit whether your black,red,yellow,orange, or even fucking purple. Now get this straight we don't want to have to deal with a bunch of arrogant christian purists, we didn't ask to be discriminated against just like. GEE THE IRONY.

[PrepeiNaSasPw]

This is offensive. Just because you get a few Black people to say that it's not a civil rights issue doesn't make it true.  This is so facile. There are TONS of Black people who will say that gay rights are civil rights -- in fact, there are even gay Black people, believe it or not!

Also, you can't change being gay, just like you can't change being left-handed. Well, you can try to change both, but when you do, you end up with severe mental problems.

[PrinceOfBabylon]

What would u people say to a gay 12yr old kid seeing this? Do you not care that you are destroying his being? His confidence? His belief that there is good in this world?

You people are pahtetic.

[mwh08111963]

Idiotic bigots. Yes. Bigots.

[XXRoseWeedXX]

Our discrimination happens behind closed doors. Our rights as human beings and American citizens are revoked in silence. And its people like you who are causing this suffering of innocent people.

[XXRoseWeedXX]

Being Black is obvious in outward appearence, but you can't tell whether a person is gay or not just by looking at them. Our "back of the bus" or "separate drinking fountains" is not being able to be with our lovers while they are dying on a hospital bed, all alone. it's not being able to feel safe walking outside of your home, no matter where you live. its not being able to say that you are married.

[XXRoseWeedXX]

3. the term "civil rights" isn't owned by African Americans, have you ever heard of women's civil rights or Interracial rights? Why should one minority group dictate what civil rights means to them?

[XXRoseWeedXX]

1. being gay isn't anymore of a choice than being straight is.

2. Religion is protected under the civil rights act and that is a choice.

[oopzUsuck]

..WAIT! liberals oppose black people!?!? oh wait....they use them for their own political gain until they voice their view on morality... and suddenly theyre 1 star people?i get it now!!!

[PrepeiNaSasPw]

Wow. You can't tell how incredibly racist and annoying your comment is because you are not mature enough to get it. One day, though. One day.

[oopzUsuck]

Well...actually, it's the truth. I am black, and the moment I opposed just *one* of Obama's policies...the liberals were quick to do what they do best. Spew ignorance. As if I'm just supposed to agree with the guy because our skin colors are the same. And that's for everything --- including abortion and marriage. But you wouldn't understand. One day, though. One day.

[PrepeiNaSasPw]

Nice try, oppzUsuck. Your comment doesn't even make sense. Liberals use Black people. What about Black liberals?

[oopzUsuck]

they're the main ones! they even coin special names for black people who don't think like them, "uncle tom." like i said i really don't expect for you understand. all in all, liberals tend to portray themselves as "pro-black, pro-woman, pro-muslim" UNTIL there's a miss california-like situation

[PrepeiNaSasPw]

Maybe it will help if I explain where your logic has gone wrong. Assume that it's true that liberals are "pro-black, pro-woman, pro-muslim."  That doesn't mean that they have to accept every single thing any member of those groups does! Just because someone is pro-Black rights, doesn't mean that no Black person could ever do wrong in their eyes.

Blindly accepting what someone says as valuable just because they are Black would be racist, ignorant, and if nothing else, ill-advised..

[PrepeiNaSasPw]

As for Miss Cal. What's the situation? She repeated her brain-washed answer and she was criticized for it. She was exposed as the hypocrite she was and has gotten much more attention than she otherwise would have had she won. Who remembers the winner after all?

She has given various versions of what happened that day (e.g., she didn't know who Perez was in one version, but in another knew exactly what she was doing by giving that answer to someone she knew was openly gay ). She's a liar.

[GreysSuperFan1001]

I refuse to believe the lies you are feeding Mainers. Homosexuality is not a matter of preference or choice. You are simply born that way and there is nothing anyone can do to change it. I am a gay teenager and when I look at my childhood, I can see that I have BEEN gay from the beginning. One day, I would like to marry the woman I love where I want. Is that REALLY so wrong? I can assure you that I will push for all the Maine voters I know to vote NO ON 1.

[DrUndine]

Prove to me that sexual orientation is a choice, 100%, scientific proof, and I might be swayed to agree with you.

Please, leave the Bible out of it, I may be a believer but I am not a BLIND believer. Religion should not be the foundation of laws for a nation that stands against religious persecution.

[voteyesonquestion1]

Homosexuality is a mental, emotional, spiritual prison. Once you surrender to it and believe that you are born that way, you have to recreate the world in your own image.

Every one struggle with different issues or stronghold. Sexual dis-orinetation is a powerful one since love is the strongest force in the universe.

The more someone has give and take with it, the harder it is to become free from it. It is like burning a cd. Everyone needs to find his true original masculinity or femininity.

[nistco92]

In 1963, would you be saying "The Constitution does not guarantee equal rights to negroes?!"

Also, read a damn book/journal. Virtually all studies show that homosexuality is genetic, just like skin color.

[voteyesonquestion1]

No I would not. No Homosexuality is not genetic. No one has proved it.

[oopzUsuck]

prop 1 will pass because of videos like this. thank you.

[voteyesonquestion1]

I am very hopeful that Yes on 1 will will

[theknowbody]

Marriage is a Civil right. Many Churches in California are happy to perform Same Sex Marriages! Yes, they still happen, and there is nothing you can do to stop it.

It's call Freedom From Religion, and it's a founding principal of the USA.

You want to destroy that an inject your warped bigoted religion on the USA's government. And you will lose, just like the people did when they say women should not have the right to vote.

Equality is an American Value -

Vote NO one Question One!

[voteyesonquestion1]

We are all equal. That does not mean that a same gender fruitless relation is equal to marriage. Both are not only different bu opposite. Same sex nuptial promote inequality since it reject half of humanity and deprive chidren of a father and a mother. True Love does not do that.

SS nuptial is 100% sexist and discriminatory. It is regressive and crual to the next generation

[BoredomCorner]

Sexist? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Discriminatory is the current definition of marriage, which forbids gays and lesbians from marrying the people they love.

Cruel to the next generation, is perpetuating homophobia and slavery.

Besides, childless couples have the same rights under American law that you do, unless you plan to totally destroy the Constitution, along with everything that Freedom of Religion and individual liberty means.

[voteyesonquestion1]

Sexist means rejecting the other sex, about half of humanity. Can there be a higher level of discrimination that heterophobia ?

These are the obvious facts. Most couples do not want to be childless. Children repesent the fruit of their love and the futur of their lineage.

Same sex gender nuptials cannot create a common lineage or descendance. It is a dead end. What a foolish idea ?

There is no continuity between the past the present and the future.

It is smalll minded and selfcentered.

[kenballer00]

nobody's forcing gays to deny their attractions. Nobody's criminalizing homosexuals acts or raiding gay marriages in churches. gays can freely express their feelings of love in a church and get all the benefits that come with marriage through civil unions. however, as soon as you step outside the private realm of RELIGIOUS marriage and enter into the public sphere of CIVIL marriage, you are subject to the law and public opinion or vote because civil marriage is about public policy.

[BoredomCorner]

Marriage has already changed a lot, throughout human history -- in the early days it was clubbing a woman over the head and raping her, as recently as a hundred years ago it was largely just a business deal...

Things change, and change isn't evil. Grow up.

[voteyesonquestion1]

Your view of the history of marriage is just sick and depraved. Same gender nuptial is just another malignant cell like divorce and single parenthood. The ideal of marriage does not change even if people are broken. Do you believe that 100 ago parents did not love their children and marriage was just a business transaction ? How sick this is ?

[BoredomCorner]

Someone bound and determine to STEAL rights from people who are not harming him/her, is the last one to lecture about obscenity.

My points are historically accurate, if you would dig your head out of the KKK long enough to read a REAL book.

Speaking of which, remember how Jesus said "That which you do unto the least of my brothers, you do unto me"? That tells me plenty about how He'd REALLY feel about people like you.

[voteyesonquestion1]

Jesus would not hurt small children by denying then the right to father or a mother. Your usage of Jesus is pityfull.

The KKK discriminated against another race. you discriminate against half of humanity with a 100 % sexist relationship. Dont even mention the KKK

[BoredomCorner]

How are UNCONCEIVED children being denied a mother and a father?

For your information, the KKK also discriminated against gays -- read a real book.

There is NOTHING sexist about same-sex marriage, you fucking imbecile.