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Maine Campus Braces for Annual Homosexual Drag Show

The University of Maine at Farmington is known nationally for its annual ranking among the best small liberal arts colleges in America, according to U.S. News and World Reports. UMF is known locally as a hotbed of radical homosexual activism, led by the college's homosexual Alliance student organization.

UMF will host the homosexual students group's annual Drag Show on campus on Thursday, April 26th at 9 pm with free admission for those who attend. The Alliance's co-chairman, Andrea Bechen, states in the March 26, 2007 edition of the campus Farmington Flyer newspaper, You will see men dressed as women and women dressed as men and other people dressed as genders you may not be certain of. There will be loud music. There will be dancing. There will be overt sexuality. And it is a (obscenity deleted) of a lot of fun. The Drag Show story rated front-page, above-the-fold treatment by the campus paper, written by Farmington Flyer staff writer Shannon Field.
Bechen, a self-described feminist, agnostic lesbian and rabid gay-rights activist, went on to explain in the story, "the Alliance accept(s) sexual minorities like gays, lesbians, bisexuals, pansexuals, asexuals, transgendered individuals and others." Further, Bechen noted, "The Alliance has a pretty progressive political standpoint because queer politics unfortunately still fall on the 'liberal' side of the spectrum."

The story details the University administration's alleged attempt last year to have the radical homosexual group cease their activities during the "Family and Friends Fall Fest Weekend." Bechen states that the group's public radical homosexual activities would not have been well received by the parents of fellow UMF students and that the group is UMF's well-known queer secret.

UMF's Alliance student group was known as the Rainbow Educational Alliance of Diverse Individuals, or READI, until recently. In addition to the annual Drag Show, the group partnered with UMF's Department of Psychology last year to promote a so-called lesbian lunchbox which was a comprehensive program designed to provide workshop participants with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to make schools safer and more affirming places for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender students according to a UMF press release no longer available on the University's website.

From the University's website: "Does this sound like you? You're OK with people who have different ideas and values. Our student clubs are proof of that: GLBTQ (Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning) Alliance, UMF Democrats, etc. Farmington students are open minded, tolerant and willing to listen to different ways of thinking."
The President of the University of Maine at Farmington is Dr. Theodora J. Kalikow, who insists on being referred to as Theo. Dr. Kalikow is actively engaged with the State Sub-Cabinet for Multicultural Affairs, and she chairs the University of Maine System's Diversity Committee, according to the University's website. She is not married. She can be reached at 778-7056 and by email at kalikow@maine.edu

The Vice President for Student and Community Services, Celeste Branham, states on the University's website. I, too, welcome your questions and the expression of concerns. I am always willing to talk with parents about their sons and daughters... She can be reached at 778-7087 and by email at cbranham@maine.edu

EqualityMaine Names Leather Fetishist Children's Performer Their "Homosexual of the Year"
Homosexual activist Lewis (Lew) Alessio of Greene, Maine was recently announced by EqualityMaine to be the 2007 recipient of the Cameron Duncan Award. The annual award is the radical homosexual lobbying group's "homosexual of the year" award. The award was presented to Alessio at EqualityMaine's 23rd Annual Awards Banquet on March 10 at the Holiday Inn by the Bay in Portland.

The EqualityMaine press release spoke of Alessio as a homosexual demonstrating extraordinary accomplishment, commitment, and service within the AIDS community and an outstanding leader in Maine's gay community. Lew Alessio is better known in the central Maine community as being the leader of a homosexual men's social club called Just Guys. The Just Guys motto from their website is¦ the new men's social group for men who have sex with men. The group meets at MaineGeneral Health's Green Street location, located immediately adjacent to the Green Street United Methodist Church in Augusta.
Less well known is Alessio's recent past, where he competed, and was named 1st runner up, in a homosexual leather bondage fetishist contest in 2001 in New York City. Alessio placed 1st Runner Up in the homosexual leather bondage "New American Leatherman 2001" according to the homosexual leather bondage fetish website Leatherweb.com. Later that same year, Alessio married his homosexual partner, Jim Shaffer.

Besides being a leather bondage fetishist and leader of a homosexual sex men-only social club, Alessio is also self-employed as part of the theater troupe Actors Theater of Maine. The State of Maine Arts directory website states the theater group charges $500 per performance and caters primarily to children, from pre-kindergarden to 8th grade. Alessio's ˜Actors Theater of Maine troupe stages plays that all use students in the performances along with the professional casts. [The performances] are accompanied by extensive teaching materials, according to the Maine government website.

Additionally, Alessio has been a speaker with the homosexual activist Maine Speakout Project for a number of years. In 2004, he wrote a column promoting homosexual marriages for the Lewiston Sun Journal. The column was later published as part of a newsletter for the group. In the column, Alessio assures readers it is perfectly acceptable and appropriate to allow children to attend a homosexual "wedding" ceremony. If [children] are invited, sure! What a wonderful opportunity to help them understand this historic societal event. Tell [the children] this is new for you, too. Kids are great at helping adults adjust to change.

By Michael Heath

Todd Benoit writes in favor of cleaving the sacred and the secular in his March 10 column, "Make marriage's benefits accessible to more people." He allows that churches should be free to create whatever marriage rules they want, while the state "a thoroughly secular institution" should simply create a "legally binding civil contract neutrally available for heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals and noncommitalsexuals." He says this is a conservative ideal.

He suggests that the legally binding civil contract that will replace the traditional definition of marriage in this brave new world will improve society. He suggests that the possibility of a civil contract will lead to family cohesiveness.

Benoit's argument is seductive because it envisions the possibility of a peaceful public square. Everyone will enter the public arena silent about their most deeply held beliefs as they relate to the common good, and everything will run along just fine.

Scandinavia, and much of Europe, has moved further down this road of moral relativism than the United States. It is, therefore, possible to put Benoit's ideas to the test.

In 2004, writer and researcher Stanley Kurtz observed, "Marriage is slowly dying in Scandinavia." Kurtz did extensive research on Norway and Sweden before writing his now-famous article "The End of Marriage is Scandinavia."

Kurtz reported sadly that most children are now born out of wedlock in those countries. A fair reading of the Kurtz finding does not allow one to conclude that a legally binding civil contract is going to lead to family cohesiveness. Just the opposite is what actually happens. Willful ignorance of the real definition of marriage (one man, one woman, one lifetime) destroys family, devastates children and ruins society.

While Benoit's Orwellian redefinition of terms has hurt the Scandinavian family, Kurtz believes that it will devastate America. "In the American context," he writes, "this would be a disaster. Beyond raising middle class family dissolution, a further separation of marriage from parenthood would reverse the healthy turn away from single-parenting that we have begun to see since welfare reform. And cross-class family decline would bring intense pressure for a new expansion of the American welfare state."

Ominously, Kurtz concludes his report, "By the time we see the effect of gay marriage in America, it will be too late to do anything about it."

This year Maine has another chance to begin pushing the camel's nose out of the tent to avoid reaching the point of no return. A bill to expand the reach of Maine's bizarre definition of domestic partnerships is bottled up in the Labor Committee. To avoid the ire of 47 percent of Mainers who saw through the lies of sexual orientation theorists in the 2005 vote over marriage, the Roman Catholic Chancery and Maine's most radical homosexual rights group have teamed up to promote domestic partnerships again. They created a same sex registry in 2003, and now they are promoting an expansion of the homosexual partnership definition they enacted that year.

The Chancery, and Maine, is between a rock and a hard place. The Chancery is promising to fight same-sex marriage. I'm not sure what their position is on civil unions. The radical homosexual lobby owns the Maine Democratic Party and a good chunk of the Maine Republican Party. This gives the so-called gay lobby a lock on the State House.

It appears that political forces within Maine's largest religious group, the Roman Catholic Church, and Maine's most powerful immoral group, the homosexual lobby, struck a deal. Everyone wanted to avoid a political war over same-sex marriage after 2005's brutal ordeal. To avoid the fight, the Catholic Chancery and the gay lobby decided to become domestic partners.

Don't believe me? Read the press release from the misnamed radical pro-homosexual group "EqualityMaine" (They think children should be raised without a mother in some cases, and with a father in others. That obviously has nothing to do with equality). They saved the best for last in their list of endorsements of their highest priority this year "LD 375, An Act to Amend the Family Medical Leave Act." They list the Roman Catholic Diocese last in their list of endorsees.

Maine's binding civil contract called marriage will continue to be defined as one man, one woman, one lifetime or Maine will lose family cohesiveness. Benoit wants society-wide family cohesiveness, and the opportunity for everyone to live however they want sexually. Europe shows that won't happen. I want family cohesiveness and sexual normalcy. While we can easily have both, those who want same-sex marriage will have to choose one or the other.

At least we can agree on the desirability of family cohesion.

From the March 19, 2007 edition of the Bangor Daily News.

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By Michael Heath

Maine appears to be equally divided on the question of homosexuality.

The emphasis here must be put on "appearances." Maine is not as divided as voting over the past few decades makes it appear.

While Maine people, like all people, feel compassion for victims, they also feel either ambivalence toward immoral sexual practices or outright disdain. Nobody thinks that unhealthy, immoral sex is good.

Political activists, their friends in academia and all forms of the media have brilliantly manipulated our ambivalence. They have persuaded many of us to feel compassion for something we dare not think about.

It is fascinating how this sleight of hand has been accomplished. It is breathtaking to witness its success.

A case in point is playing out in the Maine Legislature right now in the form of L.D. 375. This bill appears to be a benign expansion of an obscure law known as the Family Medical Leave Act. But this seemingly innocent bill attracted strong support from the radical homosexual lobby.

My interest turned into anguish when I learned that Maine's largest and most powerful Christian congregation had thrown its support behind the bill.

But Maine's Roman Catholic Chancery flatly rejected our offer to join a partnership in defense of traditional marriage in 2005. Nevertheless, working nearly alone against overwhelming political odds, we attracted 47 percent of the electorate to our side.

For some reason there appears to be a great deal of synergy between the chancery and the so-called "gay" lobby. LD 375 is one more example on a growing list of sad incidents that will culminate in the final battle over "same-sex marriage." It is only a matter of time.

While the chancery promises to fight "same-sex marriage," we need look no further than two states to the south to see what that means.

Massachusetts is the only state in America that has legalized same-sex marriage, and it is where faithful Catholics suffered greatly from sexually abusive clergy. Words are cheap, and their actions obviously ineffective, in this matter.

LD 375 gives homosexual activists something they must have to gain what they must not get (for their own good). Their relationships gain the coveted title in law of "family."

A judge sometime in the near future is going to put Maine's domestic partnership definition (which includes homosexual partnerships) together with the recently enacted sexual orientation law and force either civil unions or same-sex marriage -- and there will be nothing anyone can do about it.

When Maine joins Massachusetts, know that it didn't happen simply because politicians caved into the demands of a vocal minority. Maine's Christians gave up. They stopped practicing their freedom to speak out and consequently lost their civilization to the oldest religion in the book -- paganism.

This sad tale of loss, pain and difficulty doesn't mean that Maine people agree with the homosexual apologists. They do not. They feel compassion for people. We are, most of us, good and decent citizens.

It does appear, however, that we may have lost our courage and independence.

We also seem to have lost something more basic for Christians, and that is, an interest in simple righteousness. The Bible and all of human history are full of examples of men and women taking a stand for it.

In this matter, such a stand would simply uphold marriage as the chief building block of civilization.

Leaders taking this stand would proactively work to make marriage the only warm hearth for sex. They would do this by teaching in a million ways that sex outside of marriage is immoral, it is wrong.

Hearts would swell while children frolicked in their restored innocence. Schools would be organized around parents, instead of against them. Communities would become strong as families grew in stature.

This is the future all of us want. Why settle for less?

From the March 19, 2007 edition of the Portland Press Herald.

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By Col. Myrl Allinder

Myrl Allinder is married to the former Martha E. Smith of Augusta, GA since 1956. They rejoice in 4 children, and in 5 grandchildren. Myrl retired as a Colonel of Marines in 1986 after 29 years, 375 combat missions, and command of 3 squadrons. He served on the staff of the Secretary of Defense for 3 years, and as a Strategic Planner for the Department of the Navy at the Naval War College, Newport, RI for 4 years. His final job was Chief of Plans, Joint Deployment Agency, Joint Chiefs of Staff, developing Logistics War Plans for all Theaters, including the Middle East.

Upon retirement he served as a missionary in Africa, Asia, Europe and South America from 1987-2000. Today he volunteers in the Pinellas County Jail (4,000 prisoners, 1000 arrests per week), in the Suncoast Haven of Rest rescue mission (7,000 homeless); and as a Gideon distributes thousands of Bibles each year to students and foreigners in the Tampa Bay area. He is an usher at Bayside Church of God in Safety Harbor, FL, serving on the Missions Committee.

"Homosexual acts are immoral [like adultery] ....we should not condone immoral acts." Gen. Peter Pace USMC, Chairman JCS

"He who changes the definition of a word perverts the people." 500 B.C. Greek philosopher

"It depends on what your definition of "is" is." President William Clinton

Perversion is defined in dictionaries as: truth twisted, just a little bit. Thank God I married the world's most honest, truthful woman; which is ironic because I was the world's biggest liar and deceiver (yep, I beguiled my Eve, Gen 3:13). I habitually excused my truth twisting with: well, Dad was alcoholic; well, I had to go to work when I was 11; well, I've been living alone since 14 in mud huts and tarpaper shacks; well, it's really my idiosyncrasy, not a lie; etc. ad nauseum.

By God's grace and the first 25 years of marriage, my wife finally delivered me of my perversions by her consistent confronting and exposing my evangel-elastic utterings. Oh yeah: I was big in the church, big in Christian fellowship groups, big in Christian TV from 1970-76 (presiding over 2000 or more in prayer breakfasts in the Hilton and in the Pentagon). Also big in exaggerations, boastings, struttings, reputations, showmanship and entertainment. (Yes, entertainment; how else to describe some of the mega-church rotating billboard advertisements of visiting songbirds and eminences whose cd's/books/etc are on sale in the lobby, uh, church narthex?)

Did I mention how much I really hated homosexuals? Two times in my boyhood wanderings (from Missiouri to New Mexico to Carolina and finally Georgia) men had inappropriately touched me, and I was filled with a murderous loathing and rage. When confronted with the standard homosexual argument, "I can't help myself; I was born this way," I would attempt to persuade the homosexual of his error in choices; that if he would just make right choices he would be freed. Apparently, unlike me, all homosexuals were totally incapable of making the right choice.

It was midnight, Friday 13, Jan 1984 in Newport, RI (how could I forget it?). I was home alone, a strategic planner at the Naval War College, praying over all the world crises, reminding God I was available and here's another brilliant idea for what to do with the heathen in D.C. and the muslims in Arab-land and the perverts in San Francisco. There is no other way to describe what happened next..... God spoke to me: What about THIS in your life? My response: God, You're changing the subject... I was talking about Major World problems... You are asking about my tiny idiosyncrasy. (My evangel-elastically speaking. My exaggerations. My lies.) At once, a Light came on that black January midnight in RI; but all the Light illuminated was my heart... which was full of worms and rot and snakes!

I fell out on the floor crying, I agree! Those are lies.. not idiosyncrasies. The question stabbed me: Myrl, what is perversion? As my answer, I started pointing to San Francisco. Perversion, Myrl, is truth-twisted. Who do you suppose twists the truth the most: an ignorant brute abusing himself with another, or marvelous-Myrl-the-macho-Marine who lies, but won't call it a lie, calling lies his idiosyncrasies. By the way: to whom much is given, much is required (Lk 12:48). Whoever is unfaithful in the least is unfaithful in very much (Lk 16:10). Who is the biggest pervert?

A new prayer came from my lips that night: O God! have mercy upon us perverts. I began to identify with... and not despise... the homosexual, who is not gay (see dictionary for definition of gay). I began to reach out to homosexuals with genuine concern and interest, and the next one who said to me, I was born this way, I agreed. You are right! And now let me tell you how I was born: a liar, a cheater, a deceiver, an adulterer. But guess what? As soon as I agreed with God that these were sins... perversions... He began to change me! And if He can change me, He can change ANYbody, even a Yankee! (Southern joke). Like all former liars/cheaters/etc, as soon as a sinner agrees with the Truth, that his sin is indeed sinful, God sets him free, changes him into a new creation. 2 Cor 5:17

American businessmen must rely on and insist on consistent definitions of all words... words like marriage, and contracts. If one man or one group are granted permission to change the definition of even one word, then all men and all groups can change definitions of more words. Our culture would then become not only perverse... but chaotic. All contracts, all business negotiations would be subject to lawsuits and discussion of what the definition of is is.

God, the Inventor of all language, has defined sin for us in the 10 Commandments. Woe to them who call evil Good, and Good evil; who put darkness for Light, and Light for darkness. Isaiah 5:20

P.S.: What happens when America stumbles and our words become contrary to God's? As for MY people, children oppress them and women rule over them. Isaiah 3, especially vv 8 & 12.