Mike Heath

League friend Peter LaBarbera, who leads Americans for Truth, recently published this report about League Executive Director Michael Heath.  It details local First Amendment opponent Steve Wessler's objection to use of Scripture in print by Heath earlier this year.  It is well worth reading in full, as is everything that Americans for Truth publishes.    

Reverse Hatred, Steve Wessler and the New Totalitarians

Mike Heath of the Christian Civic League of Maine is a committed Christian who -- like millions upon millions of pro-family Americans -- opposes homosexual practice and all sex outside marriage.  But to social leftists like Steve Wessler, Heath is an extreme “hater” whose views should not even be published in a major newspaper.  Can we afford to let the anti-Christian Left become the arbiter of “hate” in America?

Catching up on unpublished stories here: I sent a version of the following letter May 6 to Steve Wessler, executive director of a liberal outfit called the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence in Portland, Maine — in response to his April 26 column in the Portland Press-Herald advocating that this major newspaper gag my friend (and AFTAH Board Chairman) Mike Heath.  

The Left aspires to be the arbiter of “hate” in our society, but their absurd, radical and, yes, hateful arguments equating pro-family Americans with anti-Semites and racists — even slavery advocates — constitute a form of reverse-hatred.  If the Left’s non-diverse “diversity” ideology ever gets full backing by the government here in the United States, it would be used to criminalize Christian practice, as is already happening in Canada and Great Britain.

Social conservatives need to wake up to the escalating threat to freedom that comes from arrogant, absolutist ideologues on the hard Left.  Truth is, nobody hates and itches to censor others like the Left, but Wessler and his ilk rely on intimidation tactics and the media’s help to silence debate and box conservative voices out of the public square.

Steve Wessler

Morality is not prejudice, and defending the time-tested Judeo-Christian sexual ethic is not “hate.”

Wessler’s column in the Portland Press Herald (emphasis added):

Paper erred in giving voice to Heath
Those who hold such opinions have that right, but giving them a forum legitimizes their views.
By Steve Wessler, Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence

Mike Heath’s column in the Portland Press Herald that inspired Wessler’s column:

Wounds Inflicted by Sexual Revolution Can Be Healed
By banning gay rights, Maine could allay the harm done to society by men with ties to our state.
By Michael S. Heath
Executive Director, Christian Civic League of Maine

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