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Follow Tonight's No On 1 Community Conversation in Augusta Tonight!!

by: Louise

Sun Sep 13, 2009 at 18:15:00 PM EDT


Below the fold, Tweets from last night's Augusta Community Conversation...

~Louise

============================================

Unlike SFMM's rally at the Augusta Civic Center, our event tonight is open to the public and anyone who wants to follow along may do so, via Twitter.

The Task Force is in Maine will be Twittering from 6:30 to 7:30pm:

The event is in Augusta, ME, and is the kick-off in No on 1 - Protect Maine Equality's week-long "Community Conversations" series.

http://www.twitter.com/noon1maine

Hashtag for week's event series: #maineCC

More info from the campaign Web site: http://www.protectmaineequalit...

I will also be there, but not necessarily be Twittering. Later, gators!  
Louise :: Follow Tonight's No On 1 Community Conversation in Augusta Tonight!!

Realtime results for #mainecc

novenator: RT @EnviroChem @NoOn1Maine #mainecc #marryme http://www.protectmaineequalit... #lgbt please don't let #ME fall like #CA #p2
about 11 hours ago from TwitterFon

EnviroChem: RT @NoOn1Maine: Every $ counts! #mainecc #marryme http://www.protectmaineequalit... #lgbt please don't let #ME fall like #CA
about 12 hours ago from TweetDeck

NoOn1Maine: @jmv2712 @PeartreeHillBex @EnviroChem @AgeofMastery Thanks for the #mainecc RT's! Next Community Conversation is Lewiston tomorrow.
about 12 hours ago from twhirl

NoOn1Maine: @rodmccullom @stop8dotorg @QueerjohnPA Thanks for spreading the word about the Augusta Community Conversation. Tomorrow: Lewiston! #mainecc
about 12 hours ago from twhirl

EnviroChem: RT @NoOn1Maine: Betsy: Every dollar counts! #mainecc #marryme http://www.protectmaineequalit... - Help protect #ME gay marriage!
about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck

AgeofMastery: RT: @EnviroChem: RT @NoOn1Maine: Darlene: Early voting will be critical here in Maine! http://www.VoteEarlyMaine.com #marryme #mainecc #ME
about 13 hours ago from TwitterFox

EnviroChem: RT @NoOn1Maine: Darlene: Early voting will be critical here in Maine! http://www.VoteEarlyMaine.com #marryme #mainecc #ME
about 13 hours ago from TweetDeck

deviger: Those who attended the No On 1 gathering feel free to contact me with stories/opinions #memarry #mainecc #memarriage http://ow.ly/pch8
about 14 hours ago from HootSuite

NoOn1Maine: So many folks participated! Many have stuck around to talk w/ each other about Augusta's work in the next 51 days. #mainecc #marryme
about 14 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Monique: We need you to take ownership over this campaign! We need to come together like never before! #mainecc #marryme
about 14 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: http://twitpic.com/hnjqa - Monique answers folks' questions. #mainecc #marryme
about 14 hours ago from TwitPic

PeartreeHillBex: RT @NoOn1Maine Betsy: Every dollar counts! #mainecc #marryme http://www.protectmaineequa...
about 14 hours ago from web

PeartreeHillBex: @NoOn1Maine Betsy: Every dollar counts! #mainecc #marryme http://www.protectmaineequa...
about 14 hours ago from web

NoOn1Maine: Darlene: There's not a county in ME that's not somehow involved! We can connect you to local organizers. #mainecc #marrymr
about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Q+A has begun. Darlene's connecting folks with their local organizers. #marryme #mainecc about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Monique: We need to come together as a community. #marryme #mainecc about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Betsy: Every dollar counts! #mainecc #marryme http://www.protectmaineequalit...
about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Darlene's giving props to the county's amazing phonebankers. Great work! #mainecc #marryme about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: How do you get friends to get involved? Just ask! Share your story. Give them examples of volunteer opportunities. #mainecc #marryme about 15 hours ago from txt

jmv2712: RT @NoOn1Maine: Betsy Smith: We made history! We must do it again! It all boils down to the next 51 days. #mainecc #marryme about 15 hours ago from UberTwitter

NoOn1Maine: Darlene: We need everyone in this room to talk to friends and family, to join the campaign. #mainecc #marryme about 15 hours ago from txt

QueerjohnPA: RT @NoOn1Maine Darlene: Early voting will be critical! http://www.VoteEarlyMaine.com #marryme #mainecc about 15 hours ago from Power Twitter

NoOn1Maine: Darlene: Early voting will be critical! http://www.VoteEarlyMaine.com #marryme #mainecc about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Monique: We have never won (marriage equality) at the ballot box...this is the fight of our lives! #mainecc #marryme about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Monique is showing campaign commercials. To watch: protectmaineequality.org #mainecc #marryme
about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Betsy Smith: It's local communities where we will win or lose. #mainecc #marryme
about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Betsy Smith: We made history! We must do it again! It all boils down to the next 51 days. #mainecc #marryme about 15 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: Catholics for Marriage Equality is in the house- lots of applause! #mainecc #marryme
about 16 hours ago from txt

NoOn1Maine: http://twitpic.com/hn9ml - Organizer Damon welcomes folks at the #maineCC #marryme
about 16 hours ago from TwitPic

SD_Dave: I'm following NoOn1Maine's Community Conversation tonight #MaineCC #marryME
about 16 hours ago from web

NoOn1Maine: http://twitpic.com/hn8jq - We're happy to be in Augusta for tonight's Community Conversation! #MaineCC #marryME about 16 hours ago from TwitPic

sarahkkennedy: At the #mainecc in Augusta. Just met the awesome @LouisePHB. #marryme about 16 hours ago from mobile web

sarahkkennedy: Awesome! RT @NoOn1Maine: We'll be tweeting from tonight's Community Conversation in Augusta, using #maineCC. It starts @ 6:30 pmEST #marryME about 18 hours ago from twhirl

NoOn1Maine: We'll be tweeting from tonight's Community Conversation in Augusta, using #maineCC. It starts at 6:30 p.m.EST. #marryME #LGBT #gay
about 18 hours ago from twhirl

Guess which one is MY fave... ;) BTW, Sarah Kennedy is an utter love and welcome back to my neck of the woods any time she can get up here!!
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Diocese took up "anti-gay" collection today
here is the link to the video story
http://www.necn.com/Boston/New...

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
OMG, Maura, that video report is such an indictment ..
Thanks for posting it.  I've gone ahead and uploaded to YouTube and here it is:

Marc Mutty, head of Stand for Marriage Maine: "This isn't a political issue, it's a moral one."

Hey Marc, in that case, shouldn't you be preaching against it from your pulpits, not funding a political campaign from the pews?

Rev. Louis Phillips: "The obvious truth, that God is the author of marriage, reserved for ONE man and ONE woman, as proclaimed throughout the Scriptures."

Remind me again who the Catholics have teamed up with in this political fight?

Oh, right - those ancient defenders of traditional one-on-one marriage: the Mormons.

One man, one woman, two closeted church hierarchies, and the almighty dollar.

Nice to see Catholics for Marriage Equality on the scene.  

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The Augusta SFMM Civic Center rally
was imo a dismal failure; drove by at 4:45pm and again at 5:50 pm- there were maybe 200 cars in the parking lots, total. And the rally started at 6pm.

Will THAT get reported? Hell NO.

Versus we had 75-100 people at the Augusta Community Conversation... I lost count of the crowd after 50 and couldn't see well.

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Most Catholic Country in Europe has same-sex marriage
If you can use this, Louise--from Indiana University's News Site

SEVILLE, Spain - Spanish people have been identified by the Vatican as some of the more virtuous and orthodox followers of the Catholic church, a fierce opponent to equal rights for homosexuals.

But during the 1990s, city councils and autonomous communities across Spain began to allow civil unions for homosexuals. Then, at his inauguration, Spanish President Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero promised a government plan to extend marriage rights to same-sex individuals.

The bill was proposed on June 30, 2004, and passed on June 30, 2005, with 187 "yes" votes and 147 "no" votes. Spain became the third country in the world to formally legalize same-sex marriage nationwide, after the Netherlands and Belgium.  

Until this point, single people could adopt children under Spanish law, and therefore same-sex couples could undertake a de facto adoption. But if the relationship ended or the legal parent died, the other partner had no legal rights.

In lesbian marriages, if children were born, the non-biological mother was not legally regarded as a parent and still had to undergo the lengthy financial process of adoption.

On Nov. 7, 2006, the legal flaw on assisted reproduction was amended, allowing non-biological mothers to be regarded as a parent alongside a female spouse.  

"My partner and I wanted a child, very badly, but I wasn't able to get pregnant. She was, and did, but when Rosa was born, I didn't have any parental rights," said Maria Ramirez Louis, who is now married and has full guardianship. "If we were to have separated, my partner would have gotten Rosa, and I wouldn't have had a chance.

"We raised her equally. We were both 'mama' to her, but I had no legal rights. If I had any doubt about our relationship, it would have been a very scary thing."  

Although a poll performed by the government-run Center for Sociological Investigations in April 2005 reported that 66 percent of Spaniards favored legalizing same-sex marriage, reactions to the law were heated and fierce.

Catholic authority Cardinal Lopez Trujillo claimed the church was making an urgent call for freedom of conscience for Catholics, and he called on every profession linked with implementing same-sex marriage to oppose it, even if it meant losing a job.

This drastic defiance of the Catholic church by Spain could be a clear indication of the waning influence the church has over people and countries.

Sociologists have claimed that three-quarters of Spaniards believe the church hierarchy is out of touch with social reality and credit some of the decline to the death of dictator General Francisco Franco in 1975.

"I think that sometimes people don't take the church seriously when it calls for such strict policies," said Juan Pablo Martin, married since 2006. "We don't think they understand, and we don't believe that God condemns gays, or that marriage necessarily even has to be religious - only legal."

Many Spaniards simply believe the church is losing strength because people don't have as much time for religion, and social growth has made some of the church's policies impractical and outdated.

IU student Alex Narang, who is studying in Seville currently, has observed this trend.
"It's interesting how Spain is known for being so Catholic, but it's more of a traditional thing than a practicing matter," he said.  

It's clear that the Catholic Church is losing its stronghold over Spaniards, but is it because Spaniards are losing their faith, or are they simply growing with modern times of diversity and personal freedoms?

This is a question for Spaniards to ask themselves.

Americans must now ask: If the once-proclaimed "most Catholic country in Europe" has legalized same-sex marriage and adoption, are we behind the times?



I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Thanks, Maura
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cats lick church
yup,as always they're at it again,spewing hatred,and denial of BASIC human rights...while COMPLETELY ignoring (or politically 'forgetting') the PRIEST ABUSE ISSUES..SO SAD that the cats lick church and Morons(mormons) crowd spend so much money,time,and effort, on HATE,and denial TO  ALL of us,,,, to live,,,,and be loved. Im sending CASH to Maine,and PRAYING to the REAL father in  heaven, one who  instructs love,acceptance,and CARING...for ALL of US.
Big article... in my local rag...
....about them FINALLY starting to acuse Italian Priests of horrifically abusing deaf and other boys in their care. As per that article guessitmate for US is that 10% of Priests were/are abusers.   

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.
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