Good As You: Maine Family Policy Council (aka Christian Civic League of Maine) Roundup
07/20/2012
#GLAADCAP goes local; launches with Maine
New York, NY, July 20, 2012 - GLAAD, the nation's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti- defamation organization, today announced the addition of several anti-gay activists to the Commentator Accountability Project (CAP), focused on states that...
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04/27/2012
Maine's 'marriage protectors' fighting publicly; anyone else want popcorn?
In 2009, I kept mentioning something about the state of Maine that I found as compelling as it was telling. During the spring and summer before that fall's marriage vote, I kept noticing the way the "official" campaign was trying...
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01/06/2012
Audio: And now a word from those whose chosen faith makes them more American than others
We can remind our opposition as many times as we want that this fight -- our fight, the one we are engaging in the public square -- has everything to do with the always-required civil marriage license and nothing to...
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06/29/2010
Refine your arguments: Maine 'values' group can't cap their diarrhea mouths
This writer doesn't even eat animals, much less kill them with my toxic ooze. But according to the Maine Family Policy Council, my loving, legal marriage is something that's fit to be likened to the oil that's quickly robbing the...
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04/19/2010
Focus on the Family's ME outpost: Gay tolerance will destroy America, just like it did the World Trade Center
This from the Maine Family Policy Council (an official Focus on the Family affiliate for the past 19 years): The cry of our day is, There's nothing wrong with being gay. What they do is their business. I don’t see...
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03/26/2010
So you see, Maine gays, you lost last November because you are 'moral trash'
And speaking of ridiculous "slippery slope" arguments: This charming piece comes from the Christian Civic League of Maine/Maine Family Policy Council. Penned by a reverend, no less: The logical pathway of this insanity naturally leads to the legal marriage between...
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01/05/2010
Audio: A fitting booking since the campaign did build wall around Mike
Mike Heath was completely shut out of Maine's "yes on 1" campaign. Deliberately, decidedly, and by Mike's own admission. The campaign, which needed a broader coalition to "win" on their discrimination ticket, simply could not risk a public embrace of...
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11/23/2009
Gays, Gap, and 'Whateveryouwannakah': All euphemisms for evil, say anti-gay Mainers
By now you've surely seen this Gap ad: You might find it catchy or you might find it wretched. But either way, did you know that the ad is actually filled with withcraft and evil? The same kind of evil...
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11/03/2009
The true iniquity behind a 'yes on 1' vote
Need more reason to volunteer for a Maine Get Out the Vote shift, or to get on the phone from wherever you are and place a few GOTV calls? Well just look at this nugget from our Maine opposition: The...
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10/30/2009
We actually wish 'yes on 1' would call us an 'abomination'
The Maine Family Policy Council wants evangelicals to rest up and prepare to battle gays over Question One. Ya know, so that we "abnormal" gays don't kill them while they sleep: The enemy comes in and becomes "one of us"...
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10/19/2009
Yes on 1: No on 'the enemy'?
While they've been working all summer and fall to disconnect themselves, we have well established that the Stand For Marriage Maine coalition that's trying to pass Question One in Maine has so many ties to the rabidly anti-gay Christian Civic...
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10/05/2009
Stand For Marriage Maine = Christian Civic League of Maine
We've found yet another connection between Stand For Marriage Maine and the extremely far-right Christian Civic League of Maine/Maine Family Policy Council (from whom they've been trying to distance themselves since the "yes on 1" campaign began). This time it's...
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10/01/2009
Stand for [locking up and throwing away the key] Maine?
So if they had their way, what would the folks at the Maine Family Policy Council really like to see? Well, check out this, their assessment of the work of their fellow foe of the 'mos, Peter LaBarbera: Those who...
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09/22/2009
Mike abandons organization the way Maine's 'yes' campaign abandoned him
You know Mike "gays cause bad weather/graffiti/economic crises" Heath, the longtime, very far-right leader who the more "mainstream" anti-equality folks at Stand For Marriage Maine have been desperately working to keep in the closet? Well, it looks like they're not...
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09/14/2009
Stand For Marriage Maine: The ties they wish to hide keep getting more binding!
We've uncovered even more connections between Maine's official anti-equality campaign and Mike "gays cause bad weather/graffiti/economic crises" Heath, the unabashedly homo-hostile man who they are desperately pushing in the closet for the duration of the "so-called "people's veto." The latest:...
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09/08/2009
'Yes on 1's most revelatory strategy: Forcing Mike Heath into the closet
Ya know, it's interesting what a high profile campaign can do to a movement. When they are not directly pushing a ballot initiative, they have no problem foisting fringe leaders like Mike Heath out into the forefront. They'll proudly stand...
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08/26/2009
Maine Family Policy Council says sorry (for 'perverse' gays forcing them to make mistakes)
When it comes to the vehicle decal that the Maine Family Policy Council incorrectly labeled as "sadomasochist": Their rush to judgment was bad enough. But their subsequent attempt to eschew responsibility is downright despicable: This is an error that anyone...
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08/25/2009
Hey Outback, Maine plate number 4296MK: Stop all that unsavory cop honoring!
The above image is of a "Thin Blue Line" decal, this one specifically applying to the state of Georgia. According to PoliceTees.com, which sells a version of the sticker for various different states, these decals represent "the courage found deep...
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08/24/2009
Mike Heath & Stand For Marriage Maine: Their bond is unbreakable!
As the Maine marriage fight plays out over the next few months, we guarantee that you're going to hear the official "Stand For Marriage Maine" campaign working overtime to disassociate the "official" fight from the one that Mike Heath has...
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08/17/2009
Mike Heath continues to paint us into victory's corner
O.M.G: Maine's most prominent anti-equality leader, Mike Heath, has written YET ANOTHER piece on the city Portland, wherein he asserts that there is a connection between same-sex marriage spray-painted walls! Enjoy the tall can of nutty: By now many readers...
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08/12/2009
High-ranking Dems rub shoulders; Maine anti-gays rub desperation lamp
Wanna see far-right desperation in action? Well check this out. The folks at the Maine Family Policy Council, who are a major force behind the attempt to roll back marriage equality in the Pine Tree State, have written a new...
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08/10/2009
Maine: Partly homo with a chance of devilish reign
In Maine, Mike Heath presents himself as an positive force for the "pro-marriage" People's Veto. He claims to be an asset to the team that wants to rollback marriage equality. But if we didn't know better, we would swear that...
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08/07/2009
The world's ending, huh? Well can we at least have a slice of wedding cake first?
If you want to know what sort of mentality is truly fueling Maine's attempt to roll back civil -- CIVIL, CIVIL, did I mention CIVIL? -- marriage equality, then look to comments like this: "The end is certainly coming." "It...
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07/31/2009
Video: It's our 'normalcy' that's at stake!
Mainers: Do *you* think gays are abnormal? [YT: Maine4Marriage]
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07/21/2009
Anti-gay Clue: It's fellow conservatives' support of Mike Heath that's the real mystery
We've already seen the organization try to link "urban decay" to homosexuality. But In a new post to the Maine Family Policy Council's website, a staff writer (presumably the Maine anti-equality fight's greatest liability, Mike Heath) is now trying to...
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07/20/2009
Gays and graffiti: An update
Last week we noted how the Maine marriage fight's most visible and out spoken liability, the Mike Heath-led Maine Family Policy Council (formerly the Christian Civic League of Maine), is citing homosexuality and the acceptance thereof as a reason why...
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07/13/2009
'Pro-family' wisdom 101: Marriage equality = urban decay
We've seen the Maine Family Policy Council (neé the Christian Civic League of Maine) and its leader, Mike Heath, stoop to desperate levels before. Hell, we've even heard Mr. Heath intimate that the nation's financial crisis is due to God's...
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06/04/2009
'Happy, Happy, joy, joy' vs. 'Happy, Happy, anti-boy/boy'
For us, this is Happiness: But for Mike Heath, Maine's most prominent foe of the 'mos, happiness is, well, uhm -- linking to far-right anti-gay groups, one of which has been designated as a "hate group" by the Southern Poverty...
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06/02/2009
Audio: The incendiary fuel behind Maine's 'People's Veto'
Yesterday we showed you how the Rev. Bob Emrich (a leader in overturning marriage equality in Maine) supports the "ex-gay" idea, and how Mike Heath ( another key player in the anti-equality fight) was using the Tiller murder to further...
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06/01/2009
'The only thing I hate more than physical violence is spiritual and moral violence.'
You know how we've been detailing the out-there words of Mike Heath, the more prominent figurehead for Maine's movement to rollback marriage equality? Well he's now written a piece in response to the Tiller murder that (a) directly links abortion...
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05/29/2009
Heath keeps talking; Our chances of winning in Maine keep growing
Another day, another noxious quote from the Maine "pr-family" movement's main liability, Michael Heath. This time, while denouncing a proposal to bring gambling to the Pine Tree State, Heath suggests that same-sex marriage has led the local legislature to lose...
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05/21/2009
Heath's bar: Examining the verbal diarrhea of Maine's head anti-gay
Far be it from us to give our organized opposition advice. But if they wish to put forth something that even somewhat resembles a moral, righteous, intellectual front, we do feel compelled to recommend that they replace Mike Heath as...
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05/08/2009
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something Beelzebubian
This is how Maine's most prominent anti-gay group, The Maine Family Policy Council (formerly the Christian Civic League of Maine), presents the stakes in their "battle to repeal the state's newly granted marriage equality: Weak or Strong - Timid or...
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05/04/2009
Anti-gay activism is really going to the dogs (and cats)
What does Maine's organized marriage equality opposition look like? Well consider the following little nugget from Steve Whiting, an attorney who serves on the Board of Directors of Maine's largest anti-gay advocacy group, Maine Family Policy Council (formerly the Christian...
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04/23/2009
Heath's bar: ME equality foe shares gay-limiting verbosity
Mike Heath, Maine's most prominent 'mo foe, did not speak at yesterday's marriage equality hearing, because of what seems to be his distrust for Maine's elected officials. However, he has publicized what he would have said had we all been...
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02/26/2009
The 'Maine' point: That Michael Heath is being unfair and mean-sprited
Michael Heath, Maine's most prominent anti-gay activist, recently gave a speech addressing the reasons why the Pine Tree State should not allow marriage equality. Now, we want to be nice, so we will just say: It's an offensive load of...
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02/16/2009
ME: Scenes from an anti-marriage
What does a post-Valentine's Day rejection of same-sex love look like? Well if thrown by the Maine Family Policy Council (the new name for the suddenly-more-mainstream, suddenly-more-Focus on the Family-affiliated Christian Civic League of Maine), that event looks something like...
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02/04/2009
Roses on the 14th, thorns on the 15th
If you live in Maine and want to celebrate love, then you should do all you can on Valentine's Day to ensure that those close to you know how much they mean to your life. If you live in Maine...
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02/02/2009
Our fight is the righteous one, without a question
Rev. Dallas Henry is against marriage equality making its way to his home state of Maine. In a new piece he's penned for the Christian Civic League of Maine, the pastor has tied in that marriage antipathy to acceptance in...
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09/25/2008
AIG, Fannie, Freddie, Lehman: Blame your gay employees!
We assumed that many of them think it. However, to our knowledge, the Christian Civic League of Maine's Michael Heath (who's also a proud board member of Peter Labarbera's Americans For Truth group) is the first "pro-family" person to quite...
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06/20/2008
Maine's pain forced to abstain
Due to lack of support and interest, the indefatigably gay-hostile folks at the Christian Civic League of Maine have announced that they're scrapping an attempt to pass measures that would've (a) repealed a state non-discrimination law, (b) prevented state funds...
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05/16/2008
Wherein homo-hostility turns herbicidal
Think you've seen every sort of attack on yesterday's historic ruling that you can possibly imagine? Well check out this little quip from the Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Heath, which was passed on to us by the lovely...
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04/28/2008
Calling gays 'gross' and 'satanic': Is that a Maine priority?
The Christian Civic League of Maine and its notoriously queer-hostile leader, Mike Heath, have announced that they'll petition to put referendums on the state's 2009 ballot designed to (a) outlaw civil unions and same-sex marriages in the state and (b)...
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12/18/2007
Mike, Maine's ALREADY embarrassed by your rhetoric! Why would that change?
The Christian Civic League of Maine's Mike Heath has never been known for his civility. However, in a recently published piece called "Evanjellyfish," Heath has ratcheted up the discourse to an anti-gay degree so hostile and heated, one might wonder...
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11/28/2007
For the bias tells him so
Maine's most vocal anti-gay activist, Michael Heath, has announced that his Christian Civic League of Maine group will be on site this Friday when South Portland's United Church of Christ hosts a screening of the gay-friendly film, For The Bible...
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11/16/2007
And now in stone-casting news: Heath ups 'evil' ante
Yesterday we expressed great detestation over comments made by the Christian Civic League of Maine's Michael Heath, wherein he said that Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) was supporting "evil ideas and lifestyles" by agreeing to co-sponsor the Senate version of ENDA....
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03/21/2007
The Maine goal, Mr. Heath, is liberty and justice for ALL
In a column he recently wrote for the Portland Press Herald, the Christian Civic League of Maine's Michael Heath (pic.) says: A judge sometime in the near future is going to put Maine's domestic partnership definition (which includes homosexual partnerships)...
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02/14/2007
But by 'wipe this stench out,' he of course means it in the nice Christian way
Remember last week when social conservatives were thoroughly chastising Pam Spaulding because of threatening comments that a pro-gay activist had made (unbeknownst to her)on her site? And when everyone on their side was so quick to assert that extremism exists...
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02/13/2007
Heath said, we said
Below is a piece written by the Christian Civic League's Michael Heath (in red) followed by our own commentary (in blue). Enjoy: All Over but the Shouting By Michael Heath I've been doing this job too long. I can remember...
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10/02/2006
SCOTUS of Washington rebuffs CCL of Maine
Our ol' buddies at the Christian Civic League of Maine have been brushed off by the U.S. Supreme Court, who have refused to hear an appeal of a May ruling that prevented the League from airing an anti-same-sex marriage radio...
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