Mike Heath
Bangor Daily News is Obsessed with Sex
By Mike Heath
Dec 21, 2007 - 8:28:14 AM

The Bangor Daily News officially piled on today  in their editorial. 

Even Christians who have long supported the League read poison like this editorial and wonder if the League is being irresponsible.  Allow me to reassure you, dear Christian reader, the League IS being responsible.

All sex is not good sex simply because it is consensual.  That, along with the idea that parents should be allowed to define whether their male child is a male or not, is the big idea underlying today's editorial.  In classic Marxist fashion they attack the messenger, and fail (on purpose) to address anything that I wrote in my statement.  They make me the enemy of the good.

The Bangor Daily News pronounces from on high that the League is obsessed with sex when everyone knows that the culture is obsessed with sex -- not the League.  The League is devoted to God's view about sex.  And we seem to be one of the few institutions who is so devoted.

If you are confused after reading that editorial, and you wonder if the League is right or wrong then please won't you just think, as well as pray?  Is it right to stand by and allow a ten year old boy to use a girl's bathroom IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?  What sort of message does that send to the other little girls ... and boys?

The newspaper makes us sound like something lower than a peeping tom for caring enough to raise important issues, and support the only man in town with the guts to say anything.  Where are this child's parents?  The newspaper gives the kid a diagnosis when what he needs are adults with a modicum of common sense.

I want to be absolutely clear here.  Ten year old boys should not even be thinking about whether they are a boy or girl.  This entire issue is totally absurd.  If the medical profession can't figure this out then the medical profession needs it's head examined.

Lastly, the editorial praises the school for protecting the privacy of the confused boy, and the parents.  What about the privacy of every other little girl in that elementary school during an act that is one of the most private in which we all engage, namely, going to the bathroom?  Isn't that the issue here?

Two things should be private -- sex and what happens in the bathroom.  Look where the "gay" movement has brought a once great newspaper, the Bangor Daily News.  I'm not feeling very gay about it.  Are you?

I promise you this, the League is a friend to common sense.  Most Maine people agree with us about sexual morality.  They choose, however, to keep their heads down because the head is a precious thing.  I'm glad the League chooses not to keep it's head down.  Like John the Baptist everyday we come to work and speak truth to power.  Some choose to repent and change course while others (King Herod) take another path.

Your conscience is like that.  Have you noticed it refuses to keep it's head down.  The League is Maine's conscience on this matter of sexual morality.  You can count on us not letting you down no matter what the Bangor Daily News chooses to print.

As the year comes to a close you should make a financial contribution.  Unlike the Bangor Daily News which charges a subscription, and sells advertising, everything we do is free to the consumer.  Our work is a gift from the evangelical church to the people of Maine.  Perhaps the benefits it provides are worth a financial contribution to keep us strong?

Click on the paypal button above.  Don't wait.