Aren't any of you upset that your friends Bob Emrich and Scott Fish are playing you for dupes? That they try to make Deb Allen out to be some crazed agent with an agenda, when what she really is is a teacher doing the job she was hired to do? That for the second time they trot out a teacher from a private school without identifying her as such?
Haven't you all had enough of this BS?
By not providing the whole truth, Stand for Marriage Maine are lying. To you, and to every one that sees that ad. They are using some of the money you gave them to do so.
Sad, really.
While not telling his readers that I have been banned (my account has been deactivated), Scott Fish, the owner of AMG, wrote:
Gerald - How many times have I personally posted on your web site? Answer: None. How many times I have posted on your web site that you are a liar duping your site readers? Answer: None. Separate from Q1 or any other issue - I'm not, on my own web site, going to be falsely called a liar, I'm not going to have motives attributed to me that have no basis in truth or reality.
Fish (who also screens all those wanting to post there), didn't like that I had accused him of participating in attempts to deceive our fellow Mainers. But I don't think that was the entire reason - allowing me to post there was like allowing an enemy to operate behind the front lines.
And there is no way that Frank Schubert was going to allow that to continue, not when his scams are so easy to refute.
I have been expecting it, and surprised that it has taken so long. Fish is certainly welcome to post here at Dirigo Blue, much like Dan Billings does. I don't pre-screen those that want to join the conversation here.
Evidently at AMG, they only want one side to be heard.
In a fundraising email that accompanied the release of the new ad from Stand for Marriage Maine (S4MM), the group leading the people's veto, Marc Mutty points to this video in which the Wirthlin's expand on their views:
This video was also used by opponents of equal marriage in California.
In it, Robin Wirthlin says:
Lexington Public Schools has come out with a new curriculum where they will teach about homosexuality and gay marriage in every topic: in math, in reading, in social studies, in spelling. There will be terms and concepts of homosexuality promoted in every subject, at every level - from Kindergarten on up.
Parents will have no right to object, and schools will roll this forth whether they like it or not.
I contacted the Maine Department of Education for a comment regarding this, and Communications Director David Connerty-Marin, sent this reply:
I cannot comment on Massachusetts education law or decisions made by local school districts in Massachusetts. Here in Maine, our Learning Results standards and education regulations make no reference to the teaching of marriage in any way. So a change in Maine's laws or definition of marriage places no requirements on local districts regarding whether or how they teach about marriage. Such curriculum decisions are strictly local. Before or after passage of the gay marriage law a district could choose to teach about marriage or not, and to teach about it in any way it deemed appropriate. It simply is not governed by state education law.
Connerty-Marin goes on to add, "The ad is entirely misleading."
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