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Anti-Gay Rights Proposal Advanced; Christian Civic League of Maine
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la anaconda de chocolatee Apr 18 2008, 12:34 PM Post #21
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Jesse can I lick your taint as well while I am at it?
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If things are so bad in Maine or the United States, I don't understand why Mr. Heath doesn't move to a place where he and his minions won't feel so threatened.



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This is my favorite local columnist take from todays paper.



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Tell Michael Heath the war on homosexuality is over
By BILL NEMITZ April 18, 2008


You might not know him by name, but you've probably heard his story.
Hiroo Onoda was a second lieutenant in the Japanese Army. Rather than face reality and surrender when Allied forces overtook his garrison on Lubang Island in the Philippines in early 1945, he headed for the hills.
And there Onoda stayed for 29 years. Convinced that World War II was still being fought, he dismissed overwhelming evidence to the contrary as clever enemy propaganda.
Which brings us to, of all people, Michael Heath.
The executive director of the Christian Civic League of Maine announced last week that he's spearheading yet another referendum drive in his never-ending war on homosexuality. But this time, even Heath sounds a little like, well, Hiroo Onoda.
"At this point, this is just me talking," Heath wrote late last month to his supporters on the league's Web site. "I need to hear from you. I need your show of support to be persuaded that I should even recommend this to my board."
How many actually replied "Charge!" is, as usual, known only to Heath. But nevertheless, the battle is on: Heath's proposed "Act to Protect Marriage and Promote Equality," now under review by Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, takes aim at everything from same-sex marriage to civil unions, from civil-rights teams in Maine high schools to the hard-fought inclusion of sexual orientation under the Maine Human Rights Act.
Now there's no doubt that Heath, like Hiroo Onoda, is a passionate man. But also like Onoda, he's lost sight of a world fast passing him by.
The simple truth is that all but the die-hards have moved on from this decades-old fight. By the simple passage of time, Mainers have learned that Heath's shopworn scare tactics -- the school civil-rights teams, he says, are "communist lite" recruiters for the gay, lesbian and transgendered cause -- have about as much impact as a grenade with its firing pin rusted firmly in place.
Still, Heath exhorts his erstwhile supporters: "We have been licking our wounds long enough. We must launch a referendum to stop Maine from endorsing the special legal right to sexual promiscuity."
A referendum, of course, cannot be launched without enough signatures -- in this case, Heath will need 55,087 Mainers to sign on to his latest offensive.
In other words, we can end this skirmish before it even starts by simply refusing to sign Heath's petition. If the petition circulator asks why, just place a friendly hand on his shoulder and say, "It's over. Didn't anyone tell you?"
Beyond that, we can only hope that Heath himself will move on. If he spent half the time battling legalized gambling or domestic violence that he does tilting at homosexuals, Maine might actually benefit from its self-appointed savior.
Hiroo Onoda, who for 29 years ignored pleas from even his family to give it up, finally came out of the jungle in 1984 after his former commanding officer journeyed all the way to Lubang Island and told him that the war was long over.
But alas, with all due respect to the league's board, Heath answers to no man. Thus we pray for some sign from the heavens, something that might persuade St. Michael, once and for all, to stand down.
Anyone have an olive branch?


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Denovissimus Apr 18 2008, 11:33 PM Post #24
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Great piece! :clap
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that awesome!!!
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There is no way that stupid man is going to get 55,087 signatures. :rocks
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I think the citizens of Maine need to get together and force him to leave the state! Kick him the fuck out!!! :rocks
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Yeah, someone should start that kind of petition!
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Auntie Maine Apr 19 2008, 03:58 PM Post #29
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:alondria I'm still for a mafia hit.
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nah, i think someone should try to out him. that would leave him in the shit, a hit may cause conspiracy theories



you know, gay men just had to wack him cos he threatened their licence to play around
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a petition to kick him out of the state!
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I wonder what he looks like
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He looks like Alan Ruck
better known as Cameron Frye from FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF
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his boy toy needs to come forward and and force him out of the closet! You know he's gotta have one!
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here are more letters of support from the Sunday Portland Press Herald.
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Editorials
Gay rights not harmful to society

April 20, 2008

Have you no shame? It is unconscionable that you should publish Michael Heath's horrific anti-gay diatribe ("Wounds inflicted by sexual revolution can be healed," April 13).
In it, he writes that "society's perception of homosexuality as harmful" is "based on common sense, reason and science."
A decent newspaper would demand explanations of the "science" behind this bigotry and how "common sense" is to be measured. The irony of this column is that Mr. Heath trumpets the Civil Rights Movement while seeking to stigmatize those with a different set of characteristics not of their choosing.
He conveniently forgets that conservatives banned mixed-race marriages "based on common sense, reason and science" before this was discredited. The same patently false arguments are now used to promote a ban on same-sex marriages.
Nicholas Kletti
Gorham

What must we do? What must gays and lesbians – like me and my partner of 15 years – do to be accepted as equals in the eyes of Michael Heath?
We obey the law. We pay our taxes. We follow the Golden Rule. We work hard. We help the local economy. We vote. We give to charity. We take great pride in our state. We keep our yard clean. We're good neighbors. We even fly an American flag from our porch.
But none of that is good enough for Michael Heath. In his world, we're conspirators in some "sexual revolution" that's responsible for all the social ills in the state – including broken homes, child abuse and abortion.
I have no recollection of doing these things, so I must be destroying the fabric of society in my sleep. (Does Pfizer make a drug for sleepwrecking?)
Now Mr. Heath and his minions are coming after us – again! – with a kitchen-sink referendum: no rights of any kind for gay or lesbian individuals and couples.
He wants to send us back to the days when we could be fired or denied housing or credit because of a characteristic we were born with.
Back to the days of ignorance and discrimination and fear. Or, as Heath calls them, the good old days.
But still he refuses to answer the simple question: What must we do to be accepted as equals? Walk on water?
No. In Michael Heath's world, all we must do is disappear.
Bill Harnsberger
Portland

Somebody give me a gay break, already. The last time I checked, gays and lesbians were protected from discrimination by a vote of 2 to 1 in the state of Maine.
How can we allow an organization such as the Christian Civic League to just march in here and harass the gay and lesbian population and the people of Maine over this issue – again?
I, as a taxpaying, law-abiding citizen, am appalled at the very notion of any kind of discrimination against anybody being made legal.
What is the definition of discrimination, one might ask? I can only say from experience it doesn't feel very good. I want to live freely in a state where I feel "safe" to be me, a woman who identifies sexually with women but in no way feels that it's anybody's business but my own.
I am tired of having to defend what most (heterosexual) folks take for granted – the right to love whom I choose to love. I think members of the Christian coalition need to stay out of my bedroom and get lives of their own. Tsk, tsk, shame on them.
Victoria Jones
Scarborough

Michael Heath's column presenting his case for the end of "gay rights" and the "sexual revolution" needs to be queried.
Let us for a moment set aside his questionable understanding of U.S. history.
Instead, Mr. Heath's concern for the well-being of the social fabric should be taken very seriously.
Most liberals and conservatives would agree that the family, and thus marriage, is the cornerstone... of society.
If this is true, then healthy and prosperous families should lead to an equally thriving society.
Mr. Heath claims that things such as "broken homes, child abuse, abortion and AIDS are the inevitable result of a false view of sexual morality." More specifically he links them with "gay rights."
It is well-known that the overwhelming majority of child abuse is committed by straight men who are either a family member or a close friend of the family.
Therefore, statistically, gay people are less likely to commit child abuse than straight ones. Yet, from this it would be false to demand an end to "straight marriage."
Also, gay marriage does not promise more divorces. Massachusetts consistently has one of the lowest divorce rates in the country. It is also the only state with full marital rights for gay couples.
The problems Mr. Heath points to are real and demand attention. But the way to solve them does not run through a repealing of anti-discrimination laws or banning "gay marriage."
Their solution rests in building healthier and happier marriages, period.
William E. Smith III
Acton

"A false view of sexual morality" – the answer to our country's moral decay revealed, once again, via the thoughts of Michael Heath.
Fear-based leadership – genocides, witch hunts, ethnic cleansing, crusades – has been endorsed by every megalomaniac ruler the world has known, past and present.
"Love thy neighbor" – as long as he is just like yourself. Is that the correct interpretation?
Mr. Heath's commentary paints gays, and potentially gay marriages, as responsible for the following:
– Broken homes: 50 percent of heterosexual marriages fail. Do gays cause divorces, or is it the desire to be gay that's breaking the vows?
– Abortion: Is this a matter of gays getting abortions, encouraging or performing abortions? Are these the same gays that adopt unwanted children into loving homes?
– Child abuse: Is this gays beating their children, your children, or is Mr. Heath playing the pedophile card where it's been proved that sexual orientation is not a factor? Be afraid, be very afraid.
Dick Cheney says, "So," and President Bush ignores the world, the people in office, blue ribbon panels and the voting public because we, the people, obviously have a false view of right and wrong.
Now another fearless leader is before us: Michael Heath – the morality answer man. What would the citizens of Maine, of America, do without these special people who know right from wrong, moral from immoral, and are willing to save us from our ignorance, our individuality and our freedom?
May God grant us the opportunity to find out.
Paul Luise
Limington

Your readers know newspapers are experiencing tough times. So, maybe a 25 percent increase in the Press Herald's cost is justified. Maybe an ever-shrinking news hole is inevitable.
By what standard of journalism, however, did the Maine Sunday Telegram see fit to take up precious space with Michael Heath's latest incoherent anti-gay rant?
By all means, put Mr. Heath on your precious Web site if you must, but surely there are many things of greater importance for the newspaper readers you have left.
David Fischer
Wiscasset

I notice something shared by Messrs. Edward Suslovic, Kevin Donoghue and David Marshall, the three public servants who decided their opinions about a new Ocean Avenue school were more important than those of the straw polls' participants, and the Maine Christian Civic League, with its resurrected turn-the-tide referendum initiative.
Both groups' actions demonstrate an inability, or unwillingness, to understand and listen to popular opinion... and arrogance in thinking their minority views are more important than the majority's previous votes.
One group deserves to be removed from office; the other, chastised and ridiculed.
William Bell
Portland
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Looks like a repressed pillow biter to me!
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What a wonderful gift for us just in time for Gay Pride here in maine.

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Christian group halts effort on gay-rights repeal


June 20, 2008

AUGUSTA —The Christian Civic League of Maine has abandoned its campaign to repeal the state's gay-rights law, saying in an e-mail to supporters that it lacks money and volunteers to pursue a referendum in November 2009.

Wednesday's decision, which was made public Thursday, came about two months after the league announced that it hoped to collect 55,087 voters' signatures to place its proposal on the ballot, and less than one month after the state issued petitions to the league.

In addition to repealing the anti-discrimination law, the referendum would have prohibited unmarried couples from adopting children.

It also would have barred the state from recognizing civil unions; prohibited municipal officials from licensing same-sex marriages; and eliminated funding for the state's civil-rights teams.

Supporters say the teams fight bullying in Maine schools. The league argues that the teams persuade teenagers to accept homosexuality.

Thursday's e-mail to supporters from Michael Hein, the league's administrator, said the league dropped the drive because it has "neither enough funds nor enough volunteer support to continue the effort."

Yes for Marriage and Equality, a political action committee created in April to raise money for the referendum, reported $821 in contributions and about $520 in expenditures through late May.

Although the league circulated its petitions at polling places during the primary election on June 10, Michael Heath, the group's executive director, estimates that it has collected about a third of the 15,000 signatures it hoped to have by now.

Heath said the league's board of directors decided to drop the campaign Wednesday night, capping what he described as "a very difficult week of analysis, assessment and decision" on how to proceed.

Equality Maine, an advocacy group for gays, sent volunteers to 35 polling places in eight counties on June 10 to explain its side of the issue to voters.

Betsy Smith, that group's executive director, credited those efforts with dampening the league's signature gathering.

"What June 10 showed all of us is that there was a lot of support for our side," Smith said. She said Equality Maine's decision to make its case to voters at the polls "made a difference in minimizing the number of signatures they collected."

The two sides cast the failed effort in dramatically different terms. Heath described it Thursday as a drive to preserve "a traditional marriage culture." Smith condemned it as a "broad attack" on basic rights for gays and their children.

Maine already has a law on the books that effectively prohibits same-sex marriage by defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

This week, California became the second state, after Massachusetts, to begin marrying same-sex couples.

Maine does not allow civil unions for homosexuals. Such unions are legal in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey and Vermont.

The 2005 gay-rights law that the league had hoped to repeal added "sexual orientation" to the Maine Human Rights Act, which also prohibits discrimination based on age, race, religion and other factors.

The gay-rights law survived a challenge at the polls in 2005, when voters upheld it by a margin of 55 percent to 45 percent.

The anti-adoption provision in the failed petition effort stemmed from a 2007 ruling by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court allowing unmarried couples, including same-sex couples, to jointly adopt children.

One safeguard that the league's referendum did not try to undo is the state's domestic-partner registry, which became effective in 2004.

The registry gives partners "a legal status similar to that of a married person with respect to matters of probate, guardianships, conservatorships, inheritance, protection from abuse, and related matters," according to a Web site run by the state Department of Health and Human Services, which administers the registry.

The league's proposed referendum was one of several petition drives that are under way in Maine to force public votes on a range of issues.

The others include two so-called people's veto referendums designed to repeal newly passed state laws.

One people's veto would block new taxes on beverages and insurance claims to pay for the state's Dirigo Health program, which includes a health-insurance plan known as Dirigo Choice.

The other people's veto would repeal a new state law that would tighten the state's procedures for issuing driver's licenses, in part by requiring that applicants prove they are in the country legally.

Organizers of each of those two campaigns must submit 55,087 voters' signatures to the state by July 17 to force a statewide referendum vote on Nov. 4.


my favorite part is that it lacks money and volunteers :clap

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:ha :ha :ha :ha :ha :ha :ha :ha :ha :ha :ha


People should just laugh at that asshole right in his face whenever anyone sees him walking down the street, and throw eggs at his car!
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