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Mills’ ruling misleads Maine voters

By Fritz Spencer

Published:

Monday, October 26, 2009 2:07 PM EDT

We have all seen a courtroom drama in which a well-groomed defendant takes the witness stand, with a lamb-like expression of innocence. Having followed the story from the beginning, we know the defendant to be the real culprit.

Under a blistering cross-examination, he begins to fidget. The prosecutor digs in, leveling accusation after bitter accusation. Then, true to our prediction, his façade of composure crumbles, and in a rage, he blurts out the truth, “Yes, I did it!”

Alas, real trials lack this element of drama. Modern trials require endless hours of tedious preparation in order to ensure an impartial finding of the facts. The nature of judicial proof requires that the whole story is presented meticulously by both sides, then scrutinized by an impartial and unbiased jury.

If an expert takes the witness stand, his or her testimony can be impeached by showing that the expert has a personal or professional interest in the outcome of the trial. For example, no one should trust an expert who testifies about a product manufactured or sold by his own organization.

When Maine Attorney General Janet Mills stated that the same-sex marriage law will have no effect on schools in Maine, she was being less than candid. Most people in Maine are not aware that her brother, state Sen. Peter Mills, voted in favor of the law, or that her sister, Dora Anne Mills, Maine director of public health, gave a perfunctory donation of $50 to the No on 1 cause.

Moreover, Janet Mills testified at the hearing on the same-sex marriage bill at the Civic Center in Augusta in April.

But what is worse, by far, is that the Office of the Maine Attorney General, which is headed by Mills, promotes the normalization of homosexuality in the public schools through so-called “civil rights teams.” These teams were founded by Stephen Wessler, who received a “Great Pioneer Award” from Equality Maine, the state’s largest homosexual rights group. Wessler also testified at the Civic Center in favor of homosexual marriage.

So while Mills is claiming that same-sex marriage will have no effect on school curricula, civil rights teams from her own office are already in the schools advancing the normalization of homosexuality. This was hardly telling the whole story.

Mills also stated that no law requires the teaching of homosexual marriage in the schools. This is a misleading half-truth.

The whole truth is that no law prevents the teaching of homosexual marriage in school. Thus, the new law gives the sanction of law to the institution of homosexual marriage; and parents will no longer have any grounds on which to challenge the teaching of same-sex marriage in the public schools.

Nor it is even correct to state, as Janet Mills did, that current Maine law makes no reference to the teaching of marriage. In point of fact, Maine law requires the teaching of chastity, which Webster’s dictionary defines as “abstinence from impermissible sexual indulgence.” For the writers of this law, this clearly meant sex outside of marriage. Nowhere was it ever written in Maine law that children are to be taught that marriage is between a man and a woman, for the simple fact that Mainers of an early generation never foresaw the day when people could contemplate the absurdity of “marriage” between two people of the same sex.

Let us put aside for a moment the problem of increased crime in our state. We hear daily of the plague of robberies, drug deals and domestic assaults. Let us even put aside the backlog of unsolved homicides and missing persons in the Office of the Maine Attorney General.

If the attorney general chooses to take time away from prosecuting murders and bank robberies to promote marriage between homosexuals, she may do so.

But she still has an obligation to tell the complete story of how the law came to be, who is really behind the law, and what it will do to our schools. If a witness in a court of law is required to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, how much more is this required of an attorney general?

Fritz Spencer is the editor of  The Record of the Christian Civic League of Maine.