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What same-sex
"marriage" has done to Massachusetts.
It's far worse
than most people realize.
by Brian Carmenker
Mass Resistance
October 21, 2008
[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.
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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.
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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 vaginal intercourse using sex toys.
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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.
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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!
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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“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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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All insurance in Massachusetts
must now recognize same-sex “married” couples in their coverage. This
includes auto insurance, health insurance, life insurance, etc.
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Businesses must recognize same-sex
“married” couples in all their benefits, activities, etc.,
regarding both employees and customers.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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In 2008 Massachusetts changed the
state Medicare laws to include homosexual
“married” couples in the coverage.
THE PUBLIC SQUARE
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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
“Dyke 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
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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.
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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 pretty clear that the homosexual movement’s obsession with marriage
is not because large numbers of them actually want to marry each other.
Research shows that homosexual relationships are fundamentally
dysfunctional on many levels, and “marriage” as we know it isn’t something
they can achieve, or even desire. (In fact, over the last three months,
the Sunday Boston Globe’s marriage section hasn’t had any photos of
homosexual marriages. In the beginning it was full of them.) This is about
putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with
force throughout the various social and political institutions of a
society that would never accept it otherwise. To the rest of America:
You've been forewarned.
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