Dance with Who Brung’ya!

It’s simply fascinating to watch the fair weather allegiances within the anti-gay side. During campaigns like Maine’s recent “yes on 1″ effort, the “mainstream” groups like Focus on the Family and the National Organization For Marriage deliberately (and wisely, for their purposes) push outspoken activists like Mike Heath, Pete LaBarbera, and Brian Camenker to the outskirts, with the “official” campaigners/financiers acting as if they themselves know that some of their team’s prominent players are too unabashed to ever help their fallacious campaigns. But in between election season, all is forgiven. When less independents are watching and the need to look moderate is of less concern, the “mainstreamers” routinely rely on the laser-beam focus and admittedly diligent research of the same set of activists that they’d relegated to the “fringe” pile just a few weeks earlier.

Those on the far-right totally recognize this popularity roller coaster for what it is. Frustration with the situation is exactly why Peter LaBarbera and Brian Camenker held a rogue “yes on 1″ presser after weeks of being denied by the Maine campaign. It’s why Maine’s most prominent anti-gay for the past many years, Mike Heath, wrote a blog post acknowledging the forced campaign exile that we had perceived months before. It’s also why Linda Harvey wrote a piece rebuking Stand For Marriage Maine for being so quick to throw the more anti-gay (read: unfiltered and therefore more truthful) voices under the proverbial bus. And it’s exactly why some of those on the far-right have written yours truly and confirmed my spot-on insight on this topic, and why some “pro-family” moderates have issued off-record comments that are not as much denials as they are justifications.

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