Post by Paddy by Grace on Oct 23, 2008 10:37:36 GMT -7
Hat tip: Israel Shomer/warreport/Tshuvah, (Dude you got too many nic's) LOL
It's far worse than most people realize
by Brian
Camenker
[Note: As the debate on this issue rages in states across the
country, most people are unaware of what's really happened here. Get ready for
an eye-opener.]
Anyone who thinks that same-sex “marriage” is a benign
eccentricity which won’t affect the average person should consider what it has
done in Massachusetts. It’s become a hammer to force the acceptance and
normalization of homosexuality on everyone. And this train is moving fast. What
has happened so far is only the beginning.
On November 18, 2003, the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced its Goodridge opinion, ruling
that it was unconstitutional not to allow same-sex “marriage.” Six months later,
homosexual marriages began to be performed.
The public schools
The
homosexual “marriage” onslaught in public schools across the state started soon
after the November 2003, court decision.
At my own children's high
school there was a school-wide assembly to celebrate same-sex “marriage” in
early December, 2003. It featured an array of speakers, including teachers at
the school who announced that they would be “marrying” their same-sex partners
and starting families either through adoption or artificial insemination.
Literature on same-sex marriage – how it is now a normal part of society – was
handed out to the students.
Within months it was brought into the middle
schools. In September, 2004, an 8th-grade teacher in Brookline, MA, told
National Public Radio that the marriage ruling had opened up the floodgates for
teaching homosexuality. “In my mind, I know that, `OK, this is legal now.' If
somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, `Give me a break. It's legal now,'”
she told NPR. She added that she now discusses gay sex with her students as
explicitly as she desires. For example, she said she tells the kids that
lesbians can have girl partl intercourse using sex toys.
By the following
year it was in elementary school curricula. Kindergartners were given picture
books telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family, like
their own parents. In 2005, when David Parker of Lexington, MA – a parent of a
kindergartner – strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were
discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him
arrested and put in jail overnight.
Second graders at the same school
were read a book, “King and King”, about two men who have a romance and marry
each other, with a picture of them kissing. When parents Rob and Robin Wirthlin
complained, they were told that the school had no obligation to notify them or
allow them to opt-out their child.
In 2006 the Parkers and Wirthlins
filed a federal Civil Rights lawsuit to force the schools to notify parents and
allow them to opt-out their elementary-school children when homosexual-related
subjects were taught. The federal judges dismissed the case. The judges ruled
that because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school actually
had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children, and that schools
have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt-out their children!
Acceptance of homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship!
Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is “legal”, a federal judge
has ruled that the schools now have a duty to portray homosexual relationships
as normal to children, despite what parents think or believe!
In 2006, in
the elementary school where my daughter went to Kindergarten, the parents of a
third-grader were forced to take their child out of school because a man
undergoing a sex-change operation and cross-dressing was being brought into
class to teach the children that there are now “different kinds of families.”
School officials told the mother that her complaints to the principal were
considered “inappropriate behavior.”
Libraries have also radically
changed. School libraries across the state, from elementary school to high
school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and the
lifestyle in the minds of kids, some of them quite explicit and even
pornographic. Parents complaints are ignored or met with hostility.
Over
the past year, homosexual groups have been using taxpayer money to distribute a
large, slick hardcover book celebrating homosexual marriage titled “Courting
Equality” into every school library in the state.
It’s become commonplace
in Massachusetts schools for teachers to prominently display photos of their
same-sex “spouses” and occasionally bring them to school functions. Both high
schools in my own town now have principals who are “married” to their same-sex
partners, whom they bring to school and introduce to the students.
“Gay
days” in schools are considered necessary to fight “intolerance” which may exist
against same-sex relationships. Hundreds of high schools and even middle schools
across the state now hold “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender appreciation
days”. They “celebrate” homosexual marriage and move forward to other behaviors
such as cross-dressing and transsexuality. In my own town, a school committee
member recently announced that combating “homophobia” is now a top priority.
Once homosexuality has been normalized, all boundaries will come down.
The schools are already moving on to normalizing transgenderism (including
cross-dressing and sex changes). The state-funded Commission on Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender Youth includes leaders who are transsexuals.
Public
health
The Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
is “married” to another man. In 2007 he told a crowd of kids at a
state-sponsored youth event that it’s “wonderful being gay” and he wants to make
sure there’s enough HIV testing available for all of them.
Since
homosexual marriage became “legal” the rates of HIV / AIDS have gone up
considerably in Massachusetts. This year public funding to deal with HIV/AIDS
has risen by $500,000.
Citing “the right to marry” as one of the
“important challenges” in a place where “it’s a great time to be gay”, the
Massachusetts Department of Public Health helped produce The Little Black Book,
Queer in the 21st Century, a hideous work of obscene pornography which was given
to kids at Brookline High School on April 30, 2005. Among other things, it gives
“tips” to boys on how to perform oral sex on other males, masturbate other
males, and how to “safely” have someone urinate on you for sexual pleasure. It
also included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous
sex.
Domestic violence
Given the extreme dysfunctional nature of
homosexual relationships, the Massachusetts Legislature has felt the need to
spend more money every year to deal with skyrocketing homosexual domestic
violence. This year $350,000 was budgeted, up $100,000 from last year.
Business
All insurance in Massachusetts must now recognize same-sex
“married” couples in their coverage. This includes auto insurance, health
insurance, life insurance, etc.
Businesses must recognize same-sex
“married” couples in all their benefits, activities, etc., regarding both
employees and customers.
The wedding industry is required serve the
homosexual community if requested. Wedding photographers, halls, caterers, etc.,
must do same-sex marriages or be arrested for discrimination.
Businesses
are often “tested” for tolerance by homosexual activists. Groups of homosexual
activists often go into restaurants or bars and publicly kiss and fondle each
other to test whether the establishment demonstrates sufficient “equality” — now
that homosexual marriage is “legal”. In fact, more and more overt displays of
homosexual affection are seen in public places across the state to reinforce
"marriage equality".
Legal profession
The Massachusetts Bar Exam now
tests lawyers on their knowledge of same-sex "marriage" issues. In 2007, a
Boston man, Stephen Dunne, failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused
to answer the questions in it about homosexual marriage.
Issues
regarding homosexual “families” are now firmly entrenched in the Massachusetts
legal system. In many firms, lawyers in Massachusetts practicing family law must
now attend seminars on homosexual "marriage". There are also now several
homosexual judges overseeing the Massachusetts family courts.
Adoption of
children to homosexual “married” couples
Homosexual “married” couples can
now demand to be able to adopt children the same as normal couples. Catholic
Charities decided to abandon handling adoptions rather submit to regulations
requiring them to allow homosexuals to adopt the children in their
care.
In 2006 the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS)
honored two men “married” to each other as their “Parents of the Year”. The men
already adopted a baby through DSS (against the wishes of the baby’s birth
parents). According to news reports, the day after that adoption was final DSS
approached the men about adopting a second child. Homosexuals now appear to be
put in line for adopting children ahead of heterosexual parents by state
agencies in Massachusetts.
Government mandates
In 2004, Governor Mitt
Romney ordered Justices of the Peace to perform homosexual marriages when
requested or be fired. At least one Justice of the Peace decided to
resign.
Also thanks to Gov. Romney, marriage licenses in Massachusetts
now have “Party A and Party B” instead of “husband and wife.” Romney did not
have a legal requirement to do this; he did it on his own. (See more on this
below.)
Since homosexual relationships are now officially “normal”, the
Legislature now gives enormous tax money to homosexual activist groups. In
particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender
Youth is made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups which target
children in the schools. This year they are getting $700,000 of taxpayer money
to go into the public schools.
In 2008 Massachusetts changed the state
Medicare laws to include homosexual “married” couples in the coverage.
The
public square
Since gay “marriage”, annual gay pride parades have become
more prominent. There are more politicians and corporations participating, and
even police organizations take part. And the envelope gets pushed further and
further. There is now a profane “d**e March” through downtown Boston, and
recently a “transgender” parade in Northampton that included bare-chested women
who have had their breasts surgically removed so they could “become” men.
Governor Patrick even marched with his “out lesbian” 17-year old daughter in the
2008 Boston Pride event, right behind a “leather” group brandishing a black
& blue flag, whips and chains!
The media
Boston media,
particularly the Boston Globe newspaper, regularly does feature stories and news
stories portraying homosexual “married” couples where regular married couples
would normally be used. It’s “equal”, they insist, so there must be no
difference in the coverage. Also, the newspaper advice columns now deal with
homosexual "marriage" issues, and how to properly accept it.
A growing
number of news reporters and TV anchors are openly “married” homosexuals who
march in the “gay pride” parades.
Is gay marriage actually legal in
Massachusetts?
Like everywhere else in America, the imposition of
same-sex marriage on the people of Massachusetts was a combination of radical,
arrogant judges and pitifully cowardly politicians.
The Goodridge ruling
resulted in a complete cave-in by politicians of both parties on this issue.
Same-sex “marriage” is still illegal in Massachusetts. On November 18, 2003 the
court merely ruled that it was unconstitutional not to allow it, and gave the
Legislature six months to “take such action as it may deem appropriate.” Note
that the Massachusetts Constitution strongly denies courts the power to make or
change laws, or from ordering the other branches to take any action. The
constitution effectively bans “judicial review” – a court changing or nullifying
a law. Thus, the court did not order anything to happen; it simply rendered an
opinion on that specific case. And the Legislature did nothing. The marriage
statutes were never changed. However, against the advice of many, Gov. Romney
took it upon himself to alter the state's marriage licenses to say "Party A and
Party B" and order officials to perform same-sex "weddings" if asked, though he
had no legal obligation to do so. Technically, same-sex marriages are still
illegal in Massachusetts.
Nevertheless, we are having to live with it.
And furthermore, this abdication of their proper constitutional roles by the
Legislature and Governor has caused a domino effect as "copycat" rulings have
been issued in California and Connecticut, with other states fearful it will
happen there.
In conclusion
Homosexual “marriage” hangs over
society like a hammer with the force of law. And it’s only just
begun.
It's far worse than most people realize
by Brian
Camenker
[Note: As the debate on this issue rages in states across the
country, most people are unaware of what's really happened here. Get ready for
an eye-opener.]
Anyone who thinks that same-sex “marriage” is a benign
eccentricity which won’t affect the average person should consider what it has
done in Massachusetts. It’s become a hammer to force the acceptance and
normalization of homosexuality on everyone. And this train is moving fast. What
has happened so far is only the beginning.
On November 18, 2003, the
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced its Goodridge opinion, ruling
that it was unconstitutional not to allow same-sex “marriage.” Six months later,
homosexual marriages began to be performed.
The public schools
The
homosexual “marriage” onslaught in public schools across the state started soon
after the November 2003, court decision.
At my own children's high
school there was a school-wide assembly to celebrate same-sex “marriage” in
early December, 2003. It featured an array of speakers, including teachers at
the school who announced that they would be “marrying” their same-sex partners
and starting families either through adoption or artificial insemination.
Literature on same-sex marriage – how it is now a normal part of society – was
handed out to the students.
Within months it was brought into the middle
schools. In September, 2004, an 8th-grade teacher in Brookline, MA, told
National Public Radio that the marriage ruling had opened up the floodgates for
teaching homosexuality. “In my mind, I know that, `OK, this is legal now.' If
somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, `Give me a break. It's legal now,'”
she told NPR. She added that she now discusses gay sex with her students as
explicitly as she desires. For example, she said she tells the kids that
lesbians can have girl partl intercourse using sex toys.
By the following
year it was in elementary school curricula. Kindergartners were given picture
books telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family, like
their own parents. In 2005, when David Parker of Lexington, MA – a parent of a
kindergartner – strongly insisted on being notified when teachers were
discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school had him
arrested and put in jail overnight.
Second graders at the same school
were read a book, “King and King”, about two men who have a romance and marry
each other, with a picture of them kissing. When parents Rob and Robin Wirthlin
complained, they were told that the school had no obligation to notify them or
allow them to opt-out their child.
In 2006 the Parkers and Wirthlins
filed a federal Civil Rights lawsuit to force the schools to notify parents and
allow them to opt-out their elementary-school children when homosexual-related
subjects were taught. The federal judges dismissed the case. The judges ruled
that because same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school actually
had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships to children, and that schools
have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt-out their children!
Acceptance of homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship!
Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is “legal”, a federal judge
has ruled that the schools now have a duty to portray homosexual relationships
as normal to children, despite what parents think or believe!
In 2006, in
the elementary school where my daughter went to Kindergarten, the parents of a
third-grader were forced to take their child out of school because a man
undergoing a sex-change operation and cross-dressing was being brought into
class to teach the children that there are now “different kinds of families.”
School officials told the mother that her complaints to the principal were
considered “inappropriate behavior.”
Libraries have also radically
changed. School libraries across the state, from elementary school to high
school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and the
lifestyle in the minds of kids, some of them quite explicit and even
pornographic. Parents complaints are ignored or met with hostility.
Over
the past year, homosexual groups have been using taxpayer money to distribute a
large, slick hardcover book celebrating homosexual marriage titled “Courting
Equality” into every school library in the state.
It’s become commonplace
in Massachusetts schools for teachers to prominently display photos of their
same-sex “spouses” and occasionally bring them to school functions. Both high
schools in my own town now have principals who are “married” to their same-sex
partners, whom they bring to school and introduce to the students.
“Gay
days” in schools are considered necessary to fight “intolerance” which may exist
against same-sex relationships. Hundreds of high schools and even middle schools
across the state now hold “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender appreciation
days”. They “celebrate” homosexual marriage and move forward to other behaviors
such as cross-dressing and transsexuality. In my own town, a school committee
member recently announced that combating “homophobia” is now a top priority.
Once homosexuality has been normalized, all boundaries will come down.
The schools are already moving on to normalizing transgenderism (including
cross-dressing and sex changes). The state-funded Commission on Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual and Transgender Youth includes leaders who are transsexuals.
Public
health
The Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health
is “married” to another man. In 2007 he told a crowd of kids at a
state-sponsored youth event that it’s “wonderful being gay” and he wants to make
sure there’s enough HIV testing available for all of them.
Since
homosexual marriage became “legal” the rates of HIV / AIDS have gone up
considerably in Massachusetts. This year public funding to deal with HIV/AIDS
has risen by $500,000.
Citing “the right to marry” as one of the
“important challenges” in a place where “it’s a great time to be gay”, the
Massachusetts Department of Public Health helped produce The Little Black Book,
Queer in the 21st Century, a hideous work of obscene pornography which was given
to kids at Brookline High School on April 30, 2005. Among other things, it gives
“tips” to boys on how to perform oral sex on other males, masturbate other
males, and how to “safely” have someone urinate on you for sexual pleasure. It
also included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet for anonymous
sex.
Domestic violence
Given the extreme dysfunctional nature of
homosexual relationships, the Massachusetts Legislature has felt the need to
spend more money every year to deal with skyrocketing homosexual domestic
violence. This year $350,000 was budgeted, up $100,000 from last year.
Business
All insurance in Massachusetts must now recognize same-sex
“married” couples in their coverage. This includes auto insurance, health
insurance, life insurance, etc.
Businesses must recognize same-sex
“married” couples in all their benefits, activities, etc., regarding both
employees and customers.
The wedding industry is required serve the
homosexual community if requested. Wedding photographers, halls, caterers, etc.,
must do same-sex marriages or be arrested for discrimination.
Businesses
are often “tested” for tolerance by homosexual activists. Groups of homosexual
activists often go into restaurants or bars and publicly kiss and fondle each
other to test whether the establishment demonstrates sufficient “equality” — now
that homosexual marriage is “legal”. In fact, more and more overt displays of
homosexual affection are seen in public places across the state to reinforce
"marriage equality".
Legal profession
The Massachusetts Bar Exam now
tests lawyers on their knowledge of same-sex "marriage" issues. In 2007, a
Boston man, Stephen Dunne, failed the Massachusetts bar exam because he refused
to answer the questions in it about homosexual marriage.
Issues
regarding homosexual “families” are now firmly entrenched in the Massachusetts
legal system. In many firms, lawyers in Massachusetts practicing family law must
now attend seminars on homosexual "marriage". There are also now several
homosexual judges overseeing the Massachusetts family courts.
Adoption of
children to homosexual “married” couples
Homosexual “married” couples can
now demand to be able to adopt children the same as normal couples. Catholic
Charities decided to abandon handling adoptions rather submit to regulations
requiring them to allow homosexuals to adopt the children in their
care.
In 2006 the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS)
honored two men “married” to each other as their “Parents of the Year”. The men
already adopted a baby through DSS (against the wishes of the baby’s birth
parents). According to news reports, the day after that adoption was final DSS
approached the men about adopting a second child. Homosexuals now appear to be
put in line for adopting children ahead of heterosexual parents by state
agencies in Massachusetts.
Government mandates
In 2004, Governor Mitt
Romney ordered Justices of the Peace to perform homosexual marriages when
requested or be fired. At least one Justice of the Peace decided to
resign.
Also thanks to Gov. Romney, marriage licenses in Massachusetts
now have “Party A and Party B” instead of “husband and wife.” Romney did not
have a legal requirement to do this; he did it on his own. (See more on this
below.)
Since homosexual relationships are now officially “normal”, the
Legislature now gives enormous tax money to homosexual activist groups. In
particular, the Massachusetts Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender
Youth is made up of the most radical and militant homosexual groups which target
children in the schools. This year they are getting $700,000 of taxpayer money
to go into the public schools.
In 2008 Massachusetts changed the state
Medicare laws to include homosexual “married” couples in the coverage.
The
public square
Since gay “marriage”, annual gay pride parades have become
more prominent. There are more politicians and corporations participating, and
even police organizations take part. And the envelope gets pushed further and
further. There is now a profane “d**e March” through downtown Boston, and
recently a “transgender” parade in Northampton that included bare-chested women
who have had their breasts surgically removed so they could “become” men.
Governor Patrick even marched with his “out lesbian” 17-year old daughter in the
2008 Boston Pride event, right behind a “leather” group brandishing a black
& blue flag, whips and chains!
The media
Boston media,
particularly the Boston Globe newspaper, regularly does feature stories and news
stories portraying homosexual “married” couples where regular married couples
would normally be used. It’s “equal”, they insist, so there must be no
difference in the coverage. Also, the newspaper advice columns now deal with
homosexual "marriage" issues, and how to properly accept it.
A growing
number of news reporters and TV anchors are openly “married” homosexuals who
march in the “gay pride” parades.
Is gay marriage actually legal in
Massachusetts?
Like everywhere else in America, the imposition of
same-sex marriage on the people of Massachusetts was a combination of radical,
arrogant judges and pitifully cowardly politicians.
The Goodridge ruling
resulted in a complete cave-in by politicians of both parties on this issue.
Same-sex “marriage” is still illegal in Massachusetts. On November 18, 2003 the
court merely ruled that it was unconstitutional not to allow it, and gave the
Legislature six months to “take such action as it may deem appropriate.” Note
that the Massachusetts Constitution strongly denies courts the power to make or
change laws, or from ordering the other branches to take any action. The
constitution effectively bans “judicial review” – a court changing or nullifying
a law. Thus, the court did not order anything to happen; it simply rendered an
opinion on that specific case. And the Legislature did nothing. The marriage
statutes were never changed. However, against the advice of many, Gov. Romney
took it upon himself to alter the state's marriage licenses to say "Party A and
Party B" and order officials to perform same-sex "weddings" if asked, though he
had no legal obligation to do so. Technically, same-sex marriages are still
illegal in Massachusetts.
Nevertheless, we are having to live with it.
And furthermore, this abdication of their proper constitutional roles by the
Legislature and Governor has caused a domino effect as "copycat" rulings have
been issued in California and Connecticut, with other states fearful it will
happen there.
In conclusion
Homosexual “marriage” hangs over
society like a hammer with the force of law. And it’s only just
begun.
