Yes on 1 Radio Ad Transcript

Here's a transcript of a radio ad that has started running in Maine about Question 1, which would eliminate marriage equality in that state if passed by voters on November 3, 2009:

The chair recognizes the representative from Brunswick.” Special interest groups got the legislature to approve homosexual marriage and tried to prevent Mainers from voting on it. Representative Charlie Priest – “We ought naught to send it out to referendum.”

 But Question 1 gives us our vote.

Scott Fitzgibbon, professor of law from Boston College Law School, “Unless Question 1 passes there will be real consequences for Mainers. It will no longer be live and let live. Homosexual marriage will be the law whether Mainers like it or not.

“Dear Governor Baldacci, we write to provide you with an analysis of the effects…” Distinguished legal scholars wrote the Governor warning of the flood of lawsuits against individuals, small businesses and religious groups.

Church organizations could lose their tax exemption. And in Massachusetts, homosexual marriage is taught in public schools. Federal courts have ruled that parents have no right to notice, or to pull their children out of this instruction.

Vote Yes on Question 1 to preserve traditional marriage between one man and one woman. Paid for by Stand for Marriage Maine. Titles for identification only. No university endorsement implied.

Jeremy Hooper over at Good As You has posted the audio of the ad so you can hear it for yourself. I don't think the "good guys" have posted a radio response yet.

To support the Protect Maine Equality/No on 1 organization which is defending Maine's marriage equality law, please donate here.