I suspect Mr. Harnett did not have a very good weekend.  Mr. Harnett is the Assistant Attorney General who is in charge of the so-called "civil rights teams."  He emailed me Friday morning.  I published his email in the RECORD.  Within hours of us publishing the RECORD he called and left a voicemail.

He sounded emotional on the phone and claimed that I am a weak man.  He said that I fight my battles through you, our RECORD readers.  He expected me to pick up the telephone and call him after receiving the morning email.  He didn't want you to know what he wrote to me.  There was no indication on the email that it was confidential.  In his email he pointed out an error in my previous day's email regarding funding.  We included his criticism of me, unedited.

Oh yes, he also mentioned that HIS voicemail box and incoming email was quite full.  We've been getting our share of emails and calls.  Please forgive me if I am not able to get back to every email, or respond to all the phone calls.  Hopefully this publication will provide some answers.

I need to make a few observations about this developing story:

1.  The League believes that the civil rights team project should be immediately defunded and shut down at the state level.  We have believed this since the beginning.  We have never supported this program.

2.  I have met with Mr. Harnett and his boss, the Attorney General.  I was informed of the fact that the civil rights team project "has nothing to do with sexual morality" and that "sexual orientation" is now the law, so I better get used to homosexuality being discussed by the children.

3.  I am not afraid of Mr. Harnett, Mr. Rowe or anyone over at the State House.

4.  I am afraid of a Holy God who isn't happy about adults providing "safe zones" for kids to discuss and affirm sex outside of marriage.

5.  I reject Mr. Harnett's views regarding the value of celebrating "multi-culturalism" in the name of civil rights.  Maine has a culture that is being undermined and devalued by people intent on redefining that traditional culture.  Mr. Harnett seems to be among that group.

6.  I did not contact Mr. Harnett last week and invite comment.  His published email to me was unsolicited, apparently in reaction to the Cony story on "transgendering" that we published on Monday of last week.

7.  The last time the civil rights team issue attracted public attention our ministry was viciously attacked.  The sign in front of our building was destroyed, and our internet forum was hacked and ruined.  We lost six months of work.

8.  We don't hate people, and we don't create the problem.  The problem started this time when a troubled 19 year old who needs counseling and spiritual help was included in a "civil rights team" event last Monday.  School officials pretended she was a hero for choosing to become a man.  She was there as a workshop leader to teach about "Transgendering."  Last time the problem started when Mr. Harnett wouldn't allow me inside his statewide "diversity" conference where he was putting kids in touch with "transgendering."  We asked to tape those sessions.  We were denied.

9.  We are posting the emails we receive on this, and other, matters.  You can read the forum by clicking here

10.  I have asked Mr. Harnett repeatedly in the past few years for detail regarding the $250,000 that is spent annually.  I have never received any detail beyond the overall totals.  I have stopped asking.  He is trying to deceive good people.  Civil rights have nothing to do with holding workshops with Maine school children on Pakistani dance, yoga, withcraft and islam.

I feel bad, I really do.