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So it’s speculation time — was Maine’s Peter LaBarbera, Mike Heath, just too embarrassing for the anti-marriage equality peeps working up there? His reason for leaving, according to this release from the Maine Family Policy Council, is that he’s going to be a private consultant. What kind of services can he provide?
Mike Heath, the longtime leader of the Christian Civic League of Maine, announced today that he is moving on. Expressing appreciation for the League, Heath said that it has been a great honor to serve.…His first test came on the issue of casino gambling. When the dust settled he was credited by his adversaries with having stopped a casino from being built in Calais. Heath went on from there to tackle the most difficult and contentious social issue of our time, gay rights. In 1998 he was on the leadership team of the first successful People’s Veto of gay rights. In 2001 he joined once again with Paul Madore and Paul Volle to lead a successful statewide campaign against homosexuality. Since the early 1990s Heath and the League have expressed serious concerns with the prospect of so-called same sex marriage. Everyone laughed back then. Maine will vote on the issue this November.
No stranger to controversy, Heath is often described as a “lightning rod.”
The board accepted Heath’s resignation yesterday during a meeting at the League headquarters building in Augusta. They expressed unanimous and strong support for the forty-eight year old leader. Heath pledged his full support to the League.
Heath’s last over-the-top opinion piece, on Sept 12., was yet another sad tirade about marriage equality and deviance.
But in the final analysis, reason and logic are of little use to gay marriage backers. They are desperate to keep the focus on alleged discrimination, while the broader social and ethical implications go ignored.What, for example, is the cost to society of normalizing various forms of aberrant sexual behavior? Why should a relationship based on harmful sexual practices be accorded the sanctity of marriage?
Is it not true that gay marriage has already opened the door to polygamy? Are all aspects of the homosexual subculture as reputable and wholesome as an episode of “Father Knows Best?” Or are there aspects of the homosexual subculture which are so deviant that they cannot be mentioned here? If so, why put such relationships on a par with marriage?
Let us not portray as wholesome and progressive what every bit of evidence proves is immoral and harmful. Above all, let us not portray as a victory for society what may well turn out to be the Masada of the Culture Wars.
Other classics from Heath:
* Maine’s Mike Heath Blames Potato Blight and Bad Weather On Gay Marriage
* Christian Civic League of Maine’s Heath blames same-sex marriage for Wall Street meltdown
* Mike Heath’s Meteorological Missteps- A Review
* Christian Civic League of Maine’s Heath on the ‘insidious methods’ of the Homo Agenda
* Maine anti-gay hack Mike Heath calls for ‘Save Our State Act’
* Michael Heath Places A “HELP WANTED” Ad
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No.“Is it not true that gay marriage has already opened the door to polygamy?”
You religious people had busted THAT door off the hinges WAY before the discussion of gay marriage ever happened. The same with getting married to children/teenagers. Not to mention, having a mule as your first girlfriend.
OMIGAWD!!!You’re kidding, right?
Pam, this is more than enough pay for the transcription I just finished for ya; in fact, I think the account goes in your favor for 100+ hours!
WOW. What a day to miss the local news… omfg.
it’s straight from the keyboardof Mike Hein…
Any relation to Sarah Palin…whose maiden name is Heath?
rats leaving a sinking ship http://www.truthdig.com/images…
doing my HAPPY DANCE!
Nice one, HeathA day without spurious logic is like a day without kittens or rainbows.
RIP logic
This in a piece that is a laundry list of assertions that are each, at best, highly questionable and that contains little or no explicit reasoning to link these assertions to its conclusion.
Mr. Heath should be tried, convicted, and flogged with wet linguini for his abuse of logic.
Not a good sign for their sideto be changing leadership in the middle of the game
50′s SuckedWhy would anyone want anything to do with the 50′s, anyway?
The movies sucked.
The TV shows sucked.
And even worse was the music: grown men who sounds like they just been castrated, singing about teenage girls in their annoying high-pitched voices.
Or stupid songs about surfing.
MMMM…. Weren’t the McCarthy hearings in the 50′s?
Maybe he got brain cancer and their prayers backfired on them
Man…that is a bad wig!
No, use a real single-tail lash, a mere flogging is far to gentle.Sound reasoning is so far beyond Mr. Heath that he became, and is still very likely, dangerous. He is still associated with a radical fringe that has nothing better to do than vilify, libel, and slander a group of people he really knows next to nothing about. Real punishment is entirely insufficient to atone even for a tiny fraction of the harm he has done to gay people over his activist career.
Well, you see, Joseph Smith was gayWhich apparently explains the whole polygamy thing.
ah, the brave culture warrior…using big buXXX to force the biblical commandments that he is posed next to in that heroic photo onto the entire population of this country. how inspiring! onward, christian soldiers! theocracy is within your reach!
and exactly which one has he devoted his entire “professional” existence to? the one about the homos?
Speaking Of WhichWhatever happened to our girlfriend Steve Anderson?
His big mouth get him thrown in jail finally? LOL
kinda sortaActually, some of these cons seem to think that “Father Knows Best” and “Leave It To Beaver” were about real people.
What a waste of linguini!
Per BDNhe’s going to become a “private” consultant.
Does this mean he’s found a way to get PAID to help SFMM/ Yes on 1?
Other possibility is that Maine got too small and a la Sarah HEATH Palin, he’s quitting to make the leap to the national marketplace.
We’ll see more of this guy. Watch and see; he’ll come back like Voldemort!
Heath has quit beforebut last time, he quit the Republican Party. He quit over a gubernatorial candidate named Woodcock.
Kid you not- insert your own jokes here!
wow…“In 2001 he joined once again with Paul Madore and Paul Volle to lead a successful statewide campaign against homosexuality.”
That kind of an achievement should have the think tanks beating down this door!
“Are all aspects of the heterosexual subculture as reputable and wholesome as an episode of “Father Knows Best?” Or are there aspects of the heterosexual subculture which are so deviant that they cannot be mentioned here?”
My mind hurts. I don’t understand how someone can even type words like this without the pathway from their brain to their fingers triggering something giving them at least a bit of a hint of how utterly, transparently wrong they are. I just don’t get it.
Than where is our Harry Potter?of course our Harry wouldn’t be a young man trying to play a teen boy.
Maybe a clever, logical, female to male trans-gender activist?
Surfing would be early 60′sTV
Steve Allen was fun, and Ernie Kofax, Dobie Gillis, Edward R. Murrow.
Films
Auntie Mame, Bell Book and Candle, The Wild Ones, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Suddenly Last Summer, Cat on A Hot Tin Roof, Imitation of Life
Music
Johnny Mathis, Lena Horne, Peggie Lee, Judy Garland, Bobby Darrin, Elvis, Rightous Brothers, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger