Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Please forward and distribute this email to all of your friends and family.  We will not be able to afford to answer all the attacks on us using the Main(e) Stream Media.  We will have to rely on email and our website.  You may also want to check out Michael Heath's blog http://www.mikeheath.net

AN APPEAL TO CONSCIENCE

“Therefore, seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not; but have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty; not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but, by manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

But if our gospel is hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them who believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine to them. For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake.

For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined into our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellence of the power may be of God, and not from us.”

(2 Corinthians 4:1-10)

A TELLTALE SIGN OF HYPOCRISY

"The louder he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”

(Ralph Waldo Emerson) 

PRO-GAY FORCES PLAY THE HATE CARD

Fifty-five days before Mainers will be forced to vote for the third time on an elitist gay rights law, the chief lobbying group for the law, Maine Won’t Discriminate, and its director, Ted O’Meara, have decided to play the “hate” card.

Liberals are usually a lot faster in playing the hate card. Anyone who refuses to go along with their hidden agenda is quickly labeled a “hater” and a “bigot” – even though they might be on their knees praying for homosexuals every day. All the while, gay activists go along their merry way defacing signs, hacking into websites, and slugging petition gatherers.

Nevertheless, Maine Won’t Discriminate – who some people have taken to calling “Maine Will Intimidate” - says that we are the intolerant ones. Anyone who publishes a photo from a gay pride event is a “hater.” Anyone who says that men should not show up at work in a feather boa and lipstick is a “hater.” Anyone who says that men should not use the ladies’ room is a “hater.” Anyone who says that children can’t have two daddies is a “hater,” and on and on and on.

But wait a minute! Liberals say that all conservatives are haters, and that they alone are the loving and compassionate ones. The really funny thing about MWD’s accusation is that it probably doesn’t involve homosexuals at all. The real bone of contention with MWD is what we said about the liberal elites who are wrecking our society. Their “Stop the Big Bad Boogey Man (Mike Heath)” e-mail used a quote from one of our items in The RECORD. Did the quote criticize homosexuals? Hardly. The quote reads: “Sexual permissiveness, divorce, abortion, and the chaos in New Orleans can be laid at the liberals' doorstep…" It is this quote they are using to solicit money from the liberal elite. We thought the item from which the quote was taken is important enough to be printed again, and here it is.

We should also point out that in their mad rush to blame Mike Heath –- much like a bull charging at a red handkerchief --  MWD never even bothered to check if the Executive Director of the League was the author of that particular quote. The segment represented the official opinion of the Christian Civic League of Maine, much like the editorial in a daily newspaper. And Mike Heath didn't even write that segment.

LIBERALS SHOWING DEEP INSENSITIVITY TO THE PAIN OF SOCIETY

Once again, newspapers in Maine are leveling the charge that The RECORD was being insensitive by saying Hurricane Katrina was the wrath of God. Yet a careful rereading of The RECORD will show that no such claim was ever made. In a piece published on September 6th, The RECORD mentioned Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans on the same day the “Southern Decadence” celebration was scheduled, and then concluded that this was no more than an odd coincidence. But this was not good enough for those in the liberal mass media who have certain preconceived biases against the type of people who belong to the League.

But no matter -  in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a growing number of people are beginning to ask some extremely hard questions about the liberal establishment. No one is much concerned about Conservative Christians, since they are about the only part of American society which has not been blamed for the hurricane.  On the contrary, Conservative Christians have been praised for their compassion and hard work in the aftermath of the hurricane. In any case, does anyone imagine that a city government run by Christians would leave the dams and levees of a city unprotected, while drunken revelers rampaged through the streets?

Liberals are increasingly being taken to task for a society which is starting to sway like a house of cards. Since our modern society was constructed according to their blueprint, liberals are ultimately to blame if the structure gives way and collapses. Sexual permissiveness, divorce, abortion, and the chaos in New Orleans can be laid at their door-step. America is awakening to the fact that the false ideology of liberalism has caused an enormous amount of pain. The pain is deepening and intensifying; and our society, like the levees in New Orleans is stressed to the breaking point. Yet liberals remain absolutely oblivious to the pain they have caused. At the same time, they criticize the League for being insensitive, over a remark it never made.
 
There is one thing which liberals do par excellence, and that is to explain away the obvious. Yesterday The RECORD described how gay activists reveled in the streets of New Orleans this past Sunday while untold thousands of bodies remained beneath the flood waters.  Some gay apologists are now saying that this was not really decadence, but was only decadent in the sense of a “decadent” chocolate cake or a “decadent” pleasure.  They are also saying that the “Southern Decadence” celebration, although “outlandish” was only typical of a few gays in New Orleans. Oh, really? Then what about the bizarre photos from the San Diego parade? Or the bizarrely-clad marchers in New York City’s annual Gay Pride Parade?  Their costumes – if they bothered to wear any at all - are too vile to be mentioned here.
 
No one outside the cultural sphere of influence of the United States believes that marching down the street naked is something to be proud of. Outside of America, people see it for what it is – a society corrupted by wealth and luxury flaunting its depravity. That leaves only about ten percent of the world’s population who are snookered by liberals. But the supporters of gay rights are desperate to have us believe otherwise. They must at all costs conceal the truth that this sort of depraved behavior at gay pride events is not an exception, but the norm. All the public will see on pro-gay rights websites are smiling faces of “monogamous” couples. The sight of those who marched in the devastated city of New Orleans and in other gay pride parades is kept carefully out of sight – and with good reason.

MORAL BANKRUPTCY

The National Coalition against Legalized Gambling has published an informative study by its director, Dr. Guy C. Clark. The study entitled “Gambling and Political Corruption” carefully documents the corrupting effect of legalized gambling on local and state officials. The study describes in astounding detail the money which flows into both political parties and the reelection campaigns of state officials in other states. The corruption which exists is quite literally beyond belief, with hundreds of millions of dollars changing hands between the owners of the casinos and those in local and state government. The casinos in Biloxi, Mississippi provided $500,000 dollars a day in state tax revenue. The study can be found at http://www.ncalg.org, but be prepared for a shock.

To quote briefly from the study, “In Missouri, the House Speaker of fifteen years resigned in 1996 after a federal investigation produced charges of gambling-related deals. The ex-speaker demanded that a gambling company funnel payments of $16 million to the ex-speaker’s business associates and friends in order to obtain a state casino license. In South Carolina, Rep. Paul Derrick took $1,000 for his vote on a pari-mutuel betting bill. Derrick, who was caught red-handed on videotape taking a bribe for his vote, was part of a core group of legislators in the House of Representatives who were ready to sell their votes and their support for cash. Seventeen South Carolina lawmakers had previously been convicted of, or pled guilty to similar charges in 1992. In Kentucky, an investigation into bribery surrounding the state’s horse racing industry, resulted in the conviction or plea-bargaining of fifteen state legislators."

Anyone who believes that the same thing won’t happen in Maine is fooling himself. The people do have a chance to fight back. Volunteers and funds are still desperately needed for the effort to repeal slot machine gambling in Maine entirely. Call 207-784-0846 to help.  Call TODAY!