Mar 17, 2009 / 03:53 am
Citing the state’s homosexual civil union legislation as precedent, several Maine legislators and homosexual activists are advocating a bill that would instate same-sex “marriage.”
If passed, a bill sponsored by state Sen. Dennis Damon, D-Trenton, will allow marriage licenses to be issued to “any two persons… regardless of the sex of such person.”
State Sen. Peter Bowman, a co-sponsor of the bill, argued that establishing homosexual “marriage” is “the only fair thing to do,” SeacoastOnline.com reports. Arguing that homosexuality is “hard-wired,” he said “our society quite frankly needs to acknowledge that and then structure our institutions and traditions to be consistent and to be fair.”
Betsy Smith of the homosexual advocacy group Equality Maine said that marriage is a “worldwide, recognized, honored institution.”