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10/18/2007
Heath visits HRC store, finds it too equality-encouraging
Maine's most notorious professional anti-gay, Mike Heath, is in Washington DC to meet with his fellow activists, ostensibly to plot out the ways that they can keep their "pro-family" ruse up for a bit longer. And while in that land of politics and phallic monuments, Mr. Heath stumbled up on a land of commerce that's so insidious, it's a wonder he was able to put finger to key and peck out the following response:
On my way to the Hilton from the Dupont Circle Metro stop I came across a store front for a Human Rights Campaign gift store. Behind the window glass were two flat screen televisions. The images were accompanied by audio that must have been amplified by speakers on the outside of the glass. I only hung around for half-a-minute. Pictures of blacks and Martin Luther King flitted across the screen while a voice sermonized about the immorality of civil rights abuses. More propaganda promoting homosexuality as if it is a characteristic worthy of legal protections. I suppose this messaging blasts out that store front 24/7. Welcome to Washington D.C.
Martin Luther King Jr's niece came to Maine in 1998 and told us the truth. She told us that homosexuality has nothing to do with civil rights. Alveda King told the truth. The Human Rights Campaign is deceiving people, and leading many people down a dark and dangerous path. Pray that they will fail in their mission.
We respond:
Yea, Mike? Alveda King holds the lock solid answer as to what does and does not constitute civil rights? And you really want to use the February 1998 speech where Alveda infamously stated that "God hates racism and God hates homosexuality," as a way to deny that HRC should be connecting past civil rights abuses with current ones? Because frankly, Mike, Alveda's brazen comments about God's detestation would seem to actually JUSTIFY the unjust gay antipathy that is still blighting this nation!!
Yes, niece Alveda King is against gay rights. So is Martin Luther King's youngest daughter, Bernice King. However, you know who wasn't? Well, first off -- the late Yolanda King, MLK's oldest daughter, who, being 13 when her father died, had the opportunity to know him better than any of her siblings. She was a tireless advocate for LGBT rights up until the day she died. And while the feelings of the other two King Children, Dexter and Martin Luther III, have been harder to ascertain, there is evidence to suggest that one or both of them are on the pro-gay side of the fence (Especially Dexter).
However, perhaps the most lock-solid reasons to assume that MLK would be quite fine with HRC's comparison lies with the person who knew him better than anyone -- the late Coretta Scott King. Despite criticism from some outspoken black pastors, Ms. King took the opportunity to boldly stand with the LGBT community on more than a few occasions. One might think that she, more than Mike Heath, would have some sort of an inkling as to what resided inside of her husband's brain!
Mr. Heath, we understand why you want to disconnect the dots of civil rights injustice -- you know it is the only hope you have of winning this "culture war" battle. However, you have not one chance in succeeding at this mission. For you see, gay activists are not working to connect those dots for the American public -- the dots are already firmly hitched! It is unwise in every sense of the word to assume that Martin Luther King -- ally of Bayard Rustin, teacher of Julian Bond, lover of Democratic principles, believer that the arc of history always bends toward justice -- had denial of rights anywhere in his dream. And while some who are related to him might feel otherwise, their personal beliefs change this conversation little. Nobody has the power to deny what is and is not a righteous civil rights fight.
Lastly, Mr. Heath -- if you're still in D.C., would you mind picking us up a new HRC paperweight? Thanks, doll!
A homosexual rights gift store [CCL of Maine]
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Your thoughts
Whether pro- or anti-gay, the opinions of the Luther children are irrelevant. Are we to believe that this one man emitted a singular truth, and that close proximity to him allowed one to absorb more of it? It's this same foolish thinking that causes us to continue elect people like the son of Bush Sr and the wife of Bill Clinton.
Posted by: DustinSD | Oct 18, 2007 3:20:33 PM
i am so sick and tired of these folks who had nothing to do with the african-american civil rights movement suddenly trying to "defend" its legacy against gay people.
And what makes it even worse, they disrespect those did work in the civil rights movement i.e. john lewis, julian bond.
Posted by: a.mcewen | Oct 18, 2007 6:45:25 PM
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