WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives

Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Topic: Maine’s State Senate passed LD1020, the same sex marriage bill today. We get reaction from Betsy Smith of Equality Maine, air some of the Senate proceedings, and air Rev. Mark Worth’s testimony on behalf of a coalition of religious leaders, in support of the bill.

 

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Producers/Hosts: Amy Browne & Meredith DeFrancesco
Topic: LD1020, the same sex marriage bill sponsored by Senator Dennis Damon (Hancock), passed in the State Senate today. We talk with Senator Damon and Shenna Bellows of the Maine Civil Liberties Union, and play audio of other local area Senators (Knox, Waldo & Penobscot) debating the bill, as well as an excerpt from last week’s Public Hearing on the bill.
FMI: www.mclu.org, www.eqme.org, www.mainefreedomtomarry.org

 

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Producer/Host: Amy Browne
More of the testimony from the Public Hearing on LD1020– which would allow same sex marriage in Maine (while also affirming churches rights to refuse to marry anyone if they choose), held on 4/22/09 at the Augusta Civic Center and attended by a crowd of more than 3,000.
(More audio from the hearing was featured on a WERU Special on 4/22/09 and is also available on these archives)

 

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Producer/Host: Amy Browne
A special broadcast of excerpts from today’s public hearing on LD1020, a bill sponsored by Rep. Dennis Damon that would legalize same-sex civil marriages while upholding church’s rights to determine who may be married within their institutions.
(More testimony from the hearing will air on Weekend Voices, Saturday afternoon (4/25/09) at 3pm)

 

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Executive Producer/Host: Amy Browne
Contributing Producer: Carolyn Coe

Segment 1: Betsy Smith, Executive Director of Equality Maine, on LD 1020 the “Marriage Equality Bill”. Such a large turnout is expected at the Public Hearing on the bill next week (on Wednesday 4/22/09), that the event has been moved to the Augusta Civic Center. FMI: www.equalitymaine.org

Segment 2: Another installment in Carolyn Coe’s series of interviews with Iraqi refugees that she met while traveling in the Middle East earlier this year. Today: Families in Different Neighboring Countries of Iraq. Why are Iraqis deciding to return to Iraq now? Are Iraqi family members able to join their family already in Jordan? What effect did U.S. sanctions have on government workers in Iraq?

 

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