What is this Catholic group in maine called? My family did not attend church last week due to the second collection.  Just wondering how to get involved in this effort.

It's good that there are Catholics in Maine who support the important right of same-sex marriage. The official Catholic Church of Maine is an intolerant organization which is being helped by the intolerant Marc Mutty, but the No on 1 campaign is great campaign for protecting the bill in Maine which recognized same-sex marriage. Catholics who support same-sex marriage are better Catholics than those who are intolerant because tolerance is part of Catholic belief.

What people don't seem to take into account is that there is no Jesus. The character of Jesus was derived from older mythologies . The book THE JESUS MYSTERIES by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy show the verifiable facts that the Jesus story in the Christian bible was taken directly from Egypt (Osiris), Greece (Dionysus), Persia (Mithras), Rome (Bacchus), etc. So people, Catholic or otherwise, don't realize that their bigoted beliefs come from a bible that is just retellings of older homophobic myths. Everything from Jesus' being born of a virgin in a cave and son of a god, being killed on a tree, rising on the 3rd day, even the very dates all come from older myths as do the bits about a star guiding wise men to the child, all of it comes from other myths and are just stories. Most of the old testament were also borrowed from other older cultures. Why transport old bigotries to 21st century America. My husband and I are atheists. He is a "recovering" Catholic.

These so-called faithful Catholics have a very poor understanding of their faith and its teachings.  The very phrase gay marriage is an oxymoron.  And Terri, many of us are aware of the claims that Jesus never existed.  Of course, they ignore the writings of Josephus.

Every person on this planet has the Right to be Safe, Respected and Free.  Religion is meant to be an 'enhancement, enrichment, enlightenment; and entrusting, enveloping,encouraging' those who need and believe..it is 'people' that require these things..if nothing is said about their faith, politics, origin, nationality, race, creed, or anything else that makes us all different, then we all have something in common;  we all were born,  we have have necessities, we all die...what about the rights to knowledge and the Right to be  'Loved'..

FYI:  Gay is males having too many female hormones and not enough male..God doesn't make mistakes..Protect each other, ok?!

__ Humanitarianism First..

When religion is used to restrict the rights of other consenting adults something has to give. Gay marriage in no way restricts the rights of straight people. You can believe anything you want, Mr. Berg but you have no right to have those rights restrict the civil rights of LGBTQ people and that includes the right to marry.

Actually, society has a right to restrict things like who can marry who.  Hence we have rules on age of consent, cousins, etc.  I know you all leap to Loving, but the Loving decision did not completely redefine marriage.  This gay marriage nonsense does.

Gay marriage doesn't redefine marriage. Please. There's absolutely no evidence to show that gay marriage has a negative impact on society. Far from it. Massachusetts, which has had legal gay marriage for nearly five years, has the lowest divorce rates in the country. That's some negative impact.

I grow completely impatient with people who say that gay marriage redefines marriage. The only thing we're redefining is a society that says treating people like second-class citizens is OK. Otherwise, give me one example of how gay marriage affects your marriage. I'm assuming you can't, although I'll be waiting with baited breath.

You are nonsensical, Mr Berg, not same-sex marriage. You simply hate the idea of LGBTQ people having open honest lives and their relationships honoured alongside others. You are a homophobic hater and we get that. You want us treated as second-or third-class citizens...that is what will get redifined if marriage equality is enacted throughout the US.

Mr. Berg,

It saddens me that you feel as though you have the authority to tell other Catholics their faith and understanding of the Catholic Church is somehow sub-par to your own.  Who gave you the heavenly authority to judge others?  If you only spent more time focusing on positive causes—the LOVE not hate kind.  I embrace all people, regardless of who they choose to love.  We certainly need more love in this world.  We do not have the power to judge, nor should we want it.  It’s also important to understand that there are plenty of WONDERFUL LOVING Catholics that even WORK for the Church that disagree with this campaign.  They seem to understand and grasp the concept of this being an issue separate of the Church.  The separation of church and state is important here. Never will the Catholic Church be told they need to perform “gay Marriage” within its doors.  Marriage can be defined one way within the Church and another way with the State.  Just like hundreds of other words in our language have several different meanings.  The Church does not own, “marriage” and its definition. 

Marriage can be a lovely civil act for all GBLT people, without ever having to ‘hurt’ our Church.

No on 1:)

Okay, who the hell let Mr. Berg out of his "straight" jacket?

I was raised Catholic and it does my heart good to see Catholics expressing the church's message of love towards others in such a way. Good going!

I cannot tell you wonderful people how encouraging it is to hear Catholics like the Fathers and Sisters who raised me in the 70s.  Ours was a Church of tolerance, non-judgement, expansion of rights, freedoms, and letting God do whatever judging might need to be done.  I had all but given up on Catholics when I saw the Right-wing hysteria taking over.  It is so good to know my Brothers and Sisters are still here, still speaking from the soul on behalf of Jesus' gay disciples.  "The Disciple Jesus Loved?"  I have often wondered....