Monday, October 31, 2005

GOD’S LAW IS A HERITAGE FOREVER

“Your word is a lamp to my feet
and a light for my path.

I have taken an oath and confirmed it,
that I will follow your righteous laws.

I have suffered much;
preserve my life, O LORD, according to your word.

Accept, O LORD, the willing praise of my mouth,
and teach me your laws.

Though I constantly take my life in my hands,
I will not forget your law.

The wicked have set a snare for me,
but I have not strayed from your precepts.

Your statutes are my heritage forever;
they are the joy of my heart.

My heart is set on keeping your decrees
to the very end.”

(Psalm 119:105-112)

QUOTATIONS FOR THE DAY

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of good is for enough good people to do something extra."

(Edmund Burke)

MAINE IN AUTUMN

“I have, myself, seen from the shores of Moosehead Lake a line of ten million, million colors stretching forty miles away. And I saw it yet again, reflected in the mirrored surface of the lake on whose blue surface the clouds of the sky floated! And in the mirror of the lake the mountains also were painted. And my boat floated in color and climbed mountain peaks of scarlet and sank into the bosom of a fiery garden. And the colors steeped to my very soul!

We do not talk enough about this State. We do not tell the truth about it. We are like men living among acres of diamonds and not knowing that they are beautiful, because they are so common. We say as we look at those things that God has given us and us alone, “There is nothing in Europe to equal that.” Foolish man; there is nothing anywhere except in Heaven to begin to compare with Maine, in her autumn radiance.”

(Arthur G. Staples)

PHOTO DISAPPEARS FROM MWD WEBSITE

The RECORD revealed on Thursday that one of the photos Maine Won’t Discriminate ran on its website last week - as one of its many supporters - is the wife of Stephen Farrand, who works for New England’s most powerful gay rights advocacy group, GLAD. Farrand was hired in June of this year to be the Maine Education Coordinator for GLAD, or the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders.”

Farrand is also the communications director of GLSEN of Southern Maine. GLSEN, which stands for Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network, works to promote the homosexual rights agenda within the public schools.

A day after our story appeared, the photo was no longer on the MWD website.  

Which poses an interesting question - if MWD has so much support among the grassroots, why does it have to run the photo of the wife of someone working for a Boston-based gay rights advocacy group?

MORE ON THE FORUM DISRUPTED BY HECKLERS

More is becoming known about the forum on the sexual orientation law which was repeatedly interrupted by pro-gay rights hecklers. At the debate between Dr. John Rankin of the Theological Education Institute, and Dr. John Corvino, gay rights activists stood up immediately after the debate began and loudly demanded to know why John Corvino was discussing the issue of “same-sex marriage.”  Gay rights activists are of course alleging that same-sex marriage should not be part of the debate over the upcoming vote on Question One.  The heckling in the audience was so intense that at one point Dr. Rankin said, “I don’t want to incite a riot.”

One female member of the audience commented that the debate was merely a “contest between two men to see who could win.”   

For once, the anger and intolerance which is very much a part of the gay rights movement was directed at one of their own, since John Corvino, who argued for a “No” vote in the upcoming referendum, is himself, a homosexual.

Following is a list of upcoming speaking engagements for Michael Heath.

Tuesday, November 1, 3:00 - 4:00 PM
University of Maine at Machias
Science Building, Room 102

Michael Heath will deliver a speech on the reasons to vote “YES” in the upcoming referendum, and a question and answer session will follow. For more information, please call Pete Lefresne, Director of Public Relations for The University of Maine at Machias, 255-1327.

Wednesday, November 2, 7:00-8:00 PM
Colby College, Waterville
Given Auditorium, Bixler Building

Michael Heath will debate a representative of Maine Won’t Discriminate. Professor Reisert will serve as the moderator. Following the debate, questions will be taken from the audience. For more information, please call Ariel C. Armony at 859-5304.

Thursday, November 3, 7 – 7:30 PM
“207" program on WCSH, Portland,

Michael Heath will debate Ted O’Meara, spokesman for Maine Won’t Discriminate. There will be no live audience. The program will be broadcast on WCSH at 7 - 7:30 PM, followed by streaming video at the WCSH website, 7:30 – 8 PM.