Man is on a crusade to protest the ‘ungodly’

Naked women. Men kissing men. Bart Simpson.

Those are things that incite Mike McKee.

The middle-aged zealot is on a tireless crusade against nudity, homosexuality and even comedy.

“Cable is porn. Some cartoons are porn,” he says. “The library is a legal porn shop with sexually explicit material.”

You might have seen McKee in action. He’s a shadowy guy who won’t say much about himself but appears at Pride-Fest every year with a sign.

He’s also picketed The Independent because of explicit content and tried to get the alternative weekly removed from grocery stores. He’s ashed his face and donned a sackcloth to protest bookstores with gay and lesbian sections. He gripes that The Gazette has a liberal bias. He finds fault with Focus on the Family for “holding back on God’s true message.”

He’s collaborating on a new Web site promoting the boycott of gay and lesbian business owners and corporate supporters of same-sex rights.

He’s also going after churches, listing names of members behaving “ungodly,” he says.

Like unmarried people living together. “I’ll mark the people doing it. I’ll put it up on a Web site with the name of the pastor and the church.”

He isn’t daunted by those who say, “Mike, get a life.”

“What better life?” he says. “It’s not a job; it’s a mission.”

He says God led him to Colorado in the 1980s and that he supports himself tutoring home-schooled kids.

He isn’t shy about making lambasting calls to the media or waving a picket sign, but he’s mum about personal details like his age, marital status, where he lives, whom he loves.

“For safety reasons,” he says. “I’ve had death threats.”

He gets booed, and then some, at PrideFest.

“Some same-sex couples make out in front of me,” he says. “Some women come up and lift their shirts and show themselves.”

His look mimics counterculture chic. Black jeans, black sleeveless shirt. Tan muscular forearms. Orange sunglasses. Stubbled face, topped with salt-and-pepper shaggy hair.

He holds a silver Starbucks mug in one hand and with the other flips worn pages of a Bible. Passages are circled; words underlined in red, blue and black ink.

“I would say homosexuality and child molesting are equal in God’s sight,” he says. “Both are abominations. They corrupt children, the same way as smokers with secondhand smoke. A homosexual lifestyle corrupts a child’s spirit with secondhand sin.”

He complains to TV stations about cartoons.

“To protect the children,” he says. “‘Family Guy’ is the worst offender. It is raunchy pornography with innuendos directed at children.”

He picks on “SpongeBob” for promoting “hyperactivity.”

“The Simpsons” raises his hackles: “It is justifying teaching children how to be disobedient to their parents.”

He boycotts the fast-food joint dispensing Simpsons toys in kids meals.

Doesn’t he have other things to do?

“No,” he says.

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