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11.09.2009 1:00pm EST
(Augusta, Maine) Police are investigating a threat against a leader in past efforts against gay rights in Maine.
Augusta police say the voicemail threat targeted Michael Heath, former leader of the Christian Civic League of Maine and its successor, the Maine Family Policy Council. The person who left the voicemail said, “I can tell him this. I’m a gay guy who owns guns, and he’s my next target.”The incident isn’t the only backlash following voters’ decision to scuttle Maine’s gay marriage law.
On Sunday, same-sex marriage supporters protested outside the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland. WGME-TV says protesters taped their mouths shut in the silent protest. Bishop Richard Malone had urged Catholics to rejected gay marriage.
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I’m not advocating violence, but if the threat was real, it’s no worse than what gays experience every day. Let somebody put some bullets in his car, through his house, or maybe in him. Second Amendment says we can have guns. Doesn’t limit the type or the number. Now, what would happen if you got some really angry faggots and dykes who also happened to practice their shooting on a regular basis, and they started using those guns to defend their Constitutional rights? If it’s OK for wingnut “christians” at Ruby Ridge or Waco, then it’s OK for us.
Now, if somebody wants to up the game a little more, and maybe leave a bullet Michael Heath’s pillow, or kitchen counter, all I can say is that it’s illegal to break into somebody’s house, but actions have consequences. When you seek to deny people their rights, they might turn your game on you and form a posse. Rule by might or force doesn’t require a majority, and if Michael Heath were someday hit by a hollow-point bullet that exploded a few of his organs, then I guess he might have a better understanding of that. Again, I’m not advocating violence, but if it’s OK for us to be targets, then it’s OK for us to pick our own targets for retaliation. It’s hitting back, not throwing the first punch.
Why does the AP think it’s right to combine story about a threat with a story about a peaceful protest? These are not related.
What is related is an attack on a person’s family, followed by a threat against the attacker.
Besides, threats are only prosecutable if a person would reasonably believe they would be carried out. What gay person has ever shot the people who persecute us? It just doesn’t happen.
You may threaten me.
And I may laugh at you.
You may hurt me.
And I will never feel guilty.
You may try to steal from me.
And I find it an honor to have my creations stolen and the mundane left behind!
You may kill me.
And I thank you for allowing me to go home to my master’s loving arms!
Luv
Cleara
I think we need to leave God is Good a message too.
Aren’t these the kind of threats many gay people live with every day?
That ol’ shoe on the other foot sure don’t feel none too comfy now do it?
Not that I’m advocating or condoning the violence. We can only hope there’s the odd person out there that’ll experience a sudden realization though I suspect even that is a bit too much to hope for.
“The person who left the voicemail said, “I can tell him this. I’m a gay guy who owns guns, and he’s my next target.””
It’s a start in the right direction, I guess….
Hopefully, Mr. Heath’s homophobic “balloon boy” stunt will backfire on him, the same way “balloon boy”’s dad got caught.
@Kelson: Only when the whole of humanity realizes their “God” is no less a mythology than the earlier Greek or Roman gods, can we expect equal treatment unaffected by “religious” bigotry. I see a tiny crack in the “religious shield,” but it is unfortunately widening at an alarming slow rate.
I’ve never been able to understand how a supposedly “enlightened” species could fall for this mythology, while decrying the insanity of any other mythology.
Does lead one to wonder just how “enlightened” we really are, hey?
I hope that they investigate this “threat” with the same diligence with which the police investigate threats against gays themselves. The one & only time I reported a threat, their response was “You expect this, don’t you?”
And if it came from Mr. Heath himself or from any of his fellows, then he/they can be fined for false reporting of a crime and for wasting local tax money.
they see it as a threat i see it as freedom of speech that they always whine will be lost by the wingnuts if any positive gay legislation is passed cuts both ways doesnt it
“God is Good”-You can waste your time by stating your anti gay view here on a daily basis and you can hate all you want but YOU and WE will live to see Equality here in the USA for all people regardless of sexual orientation. Your not going to make anyone convert-even if that was a possibility, your approach obviously isnt working. Yes God is good, just ask Openly gay Reverend Gene Robinson of the episcopal church as well as thousands of other gay Christians of other denominations. If you need help dealing with your own sexual tendencies-just pray to God, He will guide you…
I completely understand that a lot of people are angry about what happened in Maine. I completely understand how some people are looking for a place to direct that anger, whether it’s towards the President, Churches, racial minorities, or any number of other targets. However, making threats like these cannot be excused or tolerated.
The police will investigate. Hopefully they will discover who made this threat, and when they do I sincerely hope that the individual involved is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Whoever they are, whether they intended to make good on this threat or not, whatever their motivation, behavior like this should not be tolerated.
That’s not to say I have much in the way of sympathy for this Heath person. If he has even a glimpse of the fear some of us have experienced in our lives because of bigotry, I’m pleased. However, if we want to be protected when threats are made against us because of our sexuality, we have to applaud when that protection is extended to anyone whose life is threatened, who is harassed and abused, whatever the reason and whoever the culprit might be.
We know, God Is Good, because the two men who beat Matthew Shepard and left him tied to a fence to die admitted their actions…. “In court the defendants used varying rationales to defend their actions. They attempted to use the gay panic defense, arguing that they were driven to temporary insanity by alleged sexual advances by Shepard. At another point they stated that they had wanted only to rob Shepard and never intended to kill him.” Wikipedia
That’s how we know. Please stop typing just to type and actually think, just a little, before you let your fingers do the talking!!!!
I wonder when “God is Good” will discover that his god doesn’t exist; that this creature is nothing other than a mythical character created by the dorks who, over more than a thousand years, wrote that pathetic piece of mythology called the Bible? How anyone could read that book and claim it to be anything other than a very poor mythological story is beyond reason. Oh, it will be claimed that it was under the guidance of the holy spirit. Oh really? And who made that claim? Moses? Jesus? Herman? Agnus? Did they have a direct phone line to god? Such bullshit. If the Pope says the bible is the word of god then there is no doubt, right? And who told the Pope? God? The local pastor?
Robert and how do we know that Matthew Sheppard was not beaten and killed by his gay lover, when he threatened to leave the gay lifestyle and convert back to the normal life of being straight.
Gosh, the San Diego marine could have been killed by gay activist in an attempt to garner sympathy after the Prop 8 lost.
We all know that Sean Pean got the sympathy vote for best actor, due to the Prop 8 lost. Hollywood admits to it.
Was the message really left by a “gay guy who owns guns?”
How we know that Mr. Heath didn’t arrange for one of his friends to leave this message for him in order to curry sympathy and to portray as some sort of martyr?