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MarkCharles

(2,261 posts)
Mon Jan 2, 2012, 03:43 PM Jan 2012

Anti-Gay Hate Group Chair Is Now Ron Paul's Iowa State Director

"The former Chairman of the Board of a certified anti-​gay hate group has become the Iowa State Director of the Ron Paul presidential campaign. Mike Heath, who Chaired Americans For Truth About Homosexuality (AFTAH) from 2008 – 2010, a tiny organization that essentially consists of Peter LaBarbera. AFTAH has also been home to J. Matt Barber, now at the Liberty Counsel."
“Mike Heath, who became Ron Paul’s Iowa state director this fall, has spent his career on the Christian right. In Iowa, Heath has focused on outreach to the religious community in the state, where Paul has made an effort to target evangelical voters,” notes an article by Pema Levy and Benjy Sarlin at Talking Points Memo:"


http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/anti-gay-hate-group-chair-is-now-ron-pauls-iowa-state-director/politics/2011/12/29/32460

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