UPDATED: Protest the second collection

by: Gerald Weinand

Sat Sep 12, 2009 at 08:31:13 AM EDT

Your words will help offset the money raised to support the people's veto of Maine's law allowing same-sex couples to marry.

Your clergy needs to hear from you. Won't you take a stand?

Update:The SunJournal has this report that some local Catholics struggle with church position on gay marriage:

Don't be surprised if you see people passing notes in church this Sunday.

Bishop Richard Malone, of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, asked parishes to pass a second collection plate during services this weekend to help raise funds for the group seeking to repeal the recently passed marriage law that reaffirms religious freedom but allows the state to recognize same-sex civil marriages.

Local Catholics have voiced their opposition to the move in letters to the editor recently printed in the Sun Journal, and a group called Catholics for Marriage Equality announced Friday it is encouraging Catholics to place notes in opposition of the repeal effort into the plate as it is passed.

Well there you go. Stop by the Catholics for Marriage Equality to learn more.