On the orders of Ms. Wheeler-Dealer (who is now Rebekah's mother-in-law), Warren used MARAL funds to try and stop the Michigan Marriage Protection Amendment (known as Proposal 2), which overwhelmingly passed.  Specifically, Warren made MARAL staff call citizens from ABORTION CLINICS (a.k.a. killing centers where unborn children are mercilessly slaughtered to death) in a desperate attempt to stop the Amendment outlawing homosexual marriage and civil unions (and domestic partnership benefits!~).  

Of course, as always, Alma Wheeler-Smith had mixed motives for helping her "allies" in the radical homosexual community.  Alma would not have blown MARAL funds on the homosexual marriage campaign if doing so would not have inevitably helped her in the long-term promote the obsession of her life - abortion "rights."

In 2006, it was pay-back time.  Rebekah and an equally liberal, pro-abortion, and homosexual rights' fanatic (Ann Arbor city councilman Leigh Greden) were vying in that year's August Democratic primary to succeed openly homosexual Chris Kolb as the state representative from the heavily Democratic 53rd District.

Because the radical homosexual community in Ann Arbor was losing one of their own with the departure of Kolb, Ann Arbor's radical homosexual activists were keenly interested in the race.  

Alma was politically savvy enough to have recognized this back in 2004.   So when Alma's sock-puppet came knocking and looking for campaign cash and endorsements in 2006, there was little question that Greden would not get so much as a crumb from the hobnobbing radical Ann Arbor homosexual activists:

"'Rebekah Warren, through MARAL, did as much as any straight person in the state to defeat Proposal 2. That itself is reason to support her,' said Keith Orr, who along with his partner, Martin Contreras, scheduled an Aug. 1 fundraising event for Warren at their home." [Note: Keith and his male lover are the wealthy owners of Ann Arbor's official gay bar as well as the owners of the homosexual "bookstore" downtown]  See: http://www.pridesource.com/article.shtml?article=19770

In the same homosexual newspaper article linked to above - surprise - Sean Kosofsky gave a glowing assessment of then-MARAL executive director Rebekah Warren:

"Sean Kosofsky, spokesperson for Triangle Pride PAC, said that his organization endorsed Warren over Greden in part because the Greden campaign didn't return the Pride PAC questionnaire, but, `mostly [because of] Rebekah's solid reputation with our community. She worked very hard on the Prop. 2 case as head of MARAL, she's a progressive and she's got a long history with our community.'"

Since the support of Kosofsky and his fellow homosexual extremists proved crucial in Warren's win over Greden in their 2006 primary race, it seems that Kosofsky came a-knocking at Alma's door in 2008 to get his new position as the executive director of North Carolina's NARAL chapter.

Although this all seems like the typical wheeling-and-dealing that Alma and her family are infamous for, there is something more sinister at work here.

There is a sick relationship between the pro-abortion rights' mantra and the radical homosexual agenda: both are intrinsically opposed to pro-creation.  

The pro-abortion and radical homosexual movements are merely branches of the same rotten tree known as the Culture of Death.  It is impossible to embrace one movement without embracing the other.

Likewise, it is impossible to oppose one movement without opposing the other.      

About the author: Andrew Shirvell, Esq., is a pro-life citizen activist who writes a weekly column that is published every Thursday for RightMichigan.com in which he focuses upon Michigan pro-life issues. He is the co-author of "Michigan Law and the Scales of Justice, Life in the Balance," a white paper published by Americans United for Life (2007).  Shirvell attended Ave Maria School of Law - Ann Arbor, where he served as president of the school's Bioethics Society, from 2004-2005.  He also served as president of Students for Life at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, from 2000-2002.