Michael Stuart Heath

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him. — GK Chesterton   Governor Michael Stuart Heath   My earliest memories are of Maine, even though I spent my childhood in Maryland. My grandfather led Maine’s park service. I...

Facebook should stand aside and let competing opinions vie for public approval, rather than presuming to determine the truth of a complicated matter — Epoch Times article entitled “New ‘Fact Check’ Stifles Informed Debate on Virus Origin, Results in Advancing Beijing’s Agenda” CCP Virus Censorship...

While health is an important element of community life, it is not the supreme value. Neither is it an absolute right that overrides the moral good or a nation’s very existence and future. — From the article “Warning! A Virus Threatens America’s Future and Christian Civilization” Trumpian Sledge...

"When Wortman began his carnage late on April 18 by murdering his recently estranged ex-partner and her new boyfriend, authorities say he was wearing an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) uniform and driving a mock-up of an RCMP cruiser." — Epoch Times article entitled “Nova Scotia Killer and...

"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”  — G.K. Chesterton, 1910 Corona Virus:  The End of Communism We’ve believed a lie.  Identity politics, the media, entertainment and the ease of travel have created the...

The curious hate what they do not know with “anxious hatred,” wanting to reduce the number of unknowns to zero, to extinguish them. Curiosity wants new knowledge or intimacy with something so it can use that knowledge to control and dominate. — Nathaniel Peters in his article The Sin of Curiosity...

Anyone who thinks there is a need to construct complex conspiracy theories to explain what is happening is ... mistaken. — John Horvat Covidator 19 It now appears inevitable that covidmania will consume the world as we know it.  John Horvat opens his column entitled “Who Needs Conspiracy Theories...

That is the mindset of an authoritarian — Bill Donohue, The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights American Christianity’s Ventilator American Christianity is on life support.  Franklin Graham’s organization, Samaritan’s Purse, is that ventilator.  It is clear now that even that isn’t...

'Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil; May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; And do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly Host, by the power of God, thrust into hell Satan and all evil spirits who wander through the world for the...

Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. — John’s Apocalypse Chapter 19   I Was(n’t) Kidding For a bit over a week I’ve been salting my COLUMNS with the english words “faggot” and...

The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality of citizens, which even voting and elections have not destroyed.  — GK Chesterton, 1928   Trump Trifecta I can’t think of one way that this week could have gone better...

A right or estate inherited from one’s ancestors   Patrimony   I held my grandfather’s hand as he died.  I watched him take his last breath.  I loved him deeply, even though I didn’t know him well.  He crossed the Tiber to enter the Roman Catholic Church before I was born.  His wife, my...

God Hates Fags — Fred Phelps   Am I Allowed to Have an Opinion?   You’ll notice that my website is named “Michael Heath.org” It isn’t called “Helping Hands Ministries.org” I take full responsibility for my words and actions. I don’t need to hide behind a corporation. I’m willing to be...

For they preach but do not practice — Matthew 23:3   Dead People's Bones and Maggots   I’m doubling down on my decision to use the accurate words faggots and maggotry to describe sodomites and sodomy. To be more precise I’m insisting on using accurate terms of derision in a political...

The legless, soft-bodied, wormlike larva of any of various dipteran flies, often found in decaying matter. A despicable person. — Dictionary definition of Maggot   Maggotry in the Stupid Bowl   I headlined Friday’s Shield of Faith COLUMN “Faggots are Maggots World Tour.” I deliberately...

Low energy Jeb Bush just endorsed a man he truly hates, Lyin’ Ted Cruz. Honestly, I can’t blame Jeb in that I drove him into oblivion!  — Donald Trump Tweet March 23, 2016   Faggots are Maggots World Tour   I’m going to do a world tour.  The theme is “Faggots are Maggots.”  The tour is...

People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering. — St Augustine   Wonder   We have a tendency to think...

And as he was setting out on his journey, a man ran up and knelt before him and asked him, “Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?”  — Rich Young Man     Kobe Pierces the Fog of Mortality     It came as a surprise, and without much, if any, warning.  Eight souls passed into eternity...

There are so many wrecked lives and marriages in the West today. — Me, yesterday     He'll Be Back     I mentioned my parents’ sixty year long marriage yesterday in my Shield of Faith COLUMN.  Read it here.   https://michaelheath.org/shield-of-faith-column/a-weekend-on-suffering      The COLUMN...

Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself. — C.S. Lewis     A Weekend on Suffering     On Friday after I completed my morning Shield of Faith LIVE show I got in our old Nissan SUV...

The last consequence of a dying Christianity is a dying people. Not one post-Christian nation has a birth rate sufficient to keep it alive….The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation. —...

​I am back in the legislature and I hope you are right about the comeback but today, I am not seeing it from here. — Name Withheld to Protect the Innocent   Jesus is the Comeback Kid   Jesus Christ is the comeback kid. Only one world religion worships a resurrected man who is, was and...

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. — GK Chesterton Roe Vs Wade: A Life and Death Drama Since 1973 the Shakespearean drama called abortion has played to crowds of millions … tens of millions. When the Supremes...

It's tragic that we live in a country where reporters who are just minding their own business trying to push a narrative can have everything ripped away from them in an instant when protesters refuse to shoot at people. — The Babylon Bee Richmond Remained Political The quote above is satire from...

Spokane Police Sergeant Terry Preuninger said Yaghtin was given numerous opportunities to stay in the protest’s designated area. — KREM2 News Station Spokane Washington   Spokane, Washington: A Time for Blood?   I chose the provocative title above for Friday’s column. The only difference...