BANGOR, Maine — At least three Republican candidates for a U.S. Senate seat in Maine have signed up to attend a candidates’ forum this week and a representative for a fourth will also attend.
The forum will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Bangor Baptist Church, 1476 Broadway. It is sponsored by the Christian Civic League of Maine, Concerned Women for America, and Maine Right to Life.
The league said last week that state Treasurer Bruce Poliquin, state Sen. Debra Plowman and Secretary of State Charlie Summers agreed to attend, and a representative for Scott D’Amboise also confirmed a place.
The race for Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe’s seat also includes two other Republicans, four Democrats and one independent.
Scott D’Amboise is the only candidate who is totally pro-life, pro-traditional family, as well as having been an announced candidate for the past two years to challenge Olympia Snowe in the 2012 primary; whereas, the other 5 fine people did not have the intestinal fortitude to oppose her in a primary, but dove in after she had dropped out. Tells you something about Scott and his perseverance to bring values and conservatism to the Republican senate seat in Washington.
What right dose a church to have this if they than they need to start paying taxs
Wholeheartedly agree.
see my comment above
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I like Scott, but I really wish Andrew Ian Dodge would have stayed in the race.
People who are working for marriage equality are not opposed to “traditional” marriage or “traditional” families. They support them, do not threaten them, and seek to include all adult couples in marriage. My marriage and family are in no way threatened or diminished if same sex couples are allowed to marry. “Christians” who claim that marriage equality threatens heterosexual marriages have no rational basis for that claim.
People are not “anti-life” if, for example, they do not believe that a 14 year-old incest victim should be forced to continue a pregnancy.
It is sobering to realize the power that religious fanatics have gained in this country, the control that they want to have over people’s personal and family lives. Republican politicians seem to have to pander to them. If these “Christians” gain enough power, because of their dedication and single-mindedness, will the U.S. one day be under a right-wing “Christian” version of Sharia law? Clearly, these people would impose such if they had the power to do so.
I relalize that consrvative Christianity (especially Baptist) seems to be the required religion of most Republicans, but I hope this isn’t considered a church service. At any rate it could be percieved as inappropriate politcal activity by this church. As other comnmenters have opined, maybe they should start paying taxes.
Those of you saying the church does not have the right to host such a forum:
Have you read the First Amendment? We have the right to peaceably assemble, practice the religion of our choice and speak our opinions. The senior Pastor of Bangor Baptist has as much right as anybody else to speak his opinion. What you are basically saying is that because the location of choice is a church and the nature of the speech is political and the people attending are politically motivated, that they have less of a right to speak and gather than other groups.
I bet some of you left leaning folks would see no problem with a group of liberal Democrat candidates holding a forum at the Unitarian Church.
For the record, I am NOT a Baptist.
When they bring people in that’s tell the people that the church wants them to vote for this person an they can’t do that an you know that to .
You made no effort to address my points. All you did was try to tell me “what I know”. All im telling you folks is that when you enter a church, you dont check your constitution at the door along with your coat. ANY american has the God given right to stand up and say “you should not vote for _____, he is dangerous to our _____” It does not matter if youre in a church or in a public park.
So were dose the separation of church an state start than ?
Separation of Church and State is not found in the constitution, but I’ll play your word game. It starts when government makes laws establishing an “official” church or when it tells a church that it cannot practice its faith. I have yet to see these candidates coming out and saying that the Baptist church is the official church. In fact I know Mrs Plowman to be a Catholic.
Logistics wise, Bangor Baptist makes a great meeting hall. It has a large auditorium and parking lot, a good sound system, and a good location.
In the United States, the term is an offshoot of the phrase, “wall of separation between church and state,” as written in Thomas Jefferson’s letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802. The original text reads: “… I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.” Jefferson reflected his frequent speaking theme that the government is not to interfere with religion.[7] The phrase was quoted by the United States Supreme Court first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947.[8] The phrase “separation of church and state” itself does not appear in the United States Constitution. The First Amendment states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” TheSupreme Court did not consider the question of how this applied to the states until 1947; when they did, in Everson v. Board of Education, the court determined that the first amendment applied to the states and that a law enabling reimbursement for busing to all schools (including parochial schools) was constitutional. [9]
As a Christian and as a Democrat this makes me want to vomit. It goes against everything I believe of my faith. Would feel the same way if it was my choice of Angus King speaking. If it happened in my church I would NEVER enter the doors again. Us versus them mentality is not what my God has taught me. “Love one another as I have loved you.”