Opinion:
The Death of Marriage: An Institution In Massachusetts Ends As Democracy Fails

"Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms." —Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher

Massachusetts State House, Boston MA"The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought. ... The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks." —Samuel Adams (1722-1803), American Patriot, Founder & Politician

By Bruce A. Seibert
July 24, 2002

"I hate Christians! All Christians are FREAKS!"

So screamed a homosexual demonstrator on the sidewalk in front of the Massachusetts State House on July 17th, 2002.

He continued to harass people who supported an amendment to the State Constitution affirming that marriage be defined as a union of 'one man and one woman'. He shoved a video camera in their faces and asked offensive questions about their biases!

Imagine! A champion of diversity admitting his hatred of a class or group; a "rainbow warrior" rabidly intolerant of people who value the stability of society norms—hating, in fact, the very society into which he was born. This is "valuing diversity?"

"It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own." —Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd U.S. President (1801-1809)

What has happened to the State of Massachusetts, or excuse me, our Commonwealth? Has the " Cradle of Liberty" become its own deathbed?

Twice now (1), a Constitutional Convention—called as the result of the democratic initiative petition and referendum processes described by state law (2)—was gaveled closed by the Senate President, Democrat Tom Birmingham. (3) He closed the Convention before he would allow a vote to be taken on the proposed amendment that caused the convention to be convened in the first place.

"Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." —James Madison (1751-1836), 4th US President (1809-1817)

What this means is that we are now living in a dictatorship in which the constitutional process is thwarted by those in power who are intolerant of the process by which power is exercised by the "consent of the governed." Tom Birmingham and the Massachusetts Legislature now dictate the outcome of our Constitutional Conventions, whereby the "will of the people" is thwarted by the manipulation of votes whose outcome is assured. (4)
In other words, the "will of the people" shall not be allowed in this Commonwealth if it is contrary to the politically-correct dictates of the Senate President and his fellow Democrat dictators.

Down the street and around the corner from the State House in the Park Street Church cemetery lie the mortal remains of such historical luminaries as Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere and other patriots of the American Revolution.
What would they think about our present state government?

I believe they would find it intolerable. I believe they would now be assembling to initiate an overthrow of the tyrants whose contempt for the rule of law, the legal process and the rights of the people has rendered them illegitimate.

"It has been thought a considerable advance towards establishing the principles of Freedom, to say, that government is a compact between those who govern and those that are governed: but this cannot be true, because it is putting the effect before the cause; for as man must have existed before governments existed, there necessarily was a time when governments did not exist, and consequently there could originally exist no governors to form such a compact with. The fact therefore must be, that the individuals themselves, each in his own personal and sovereign right, entered into a compact with each other to produce a government: and this is the only mode in which governments have a right to arise, and the only principle on which they have a right to exist." —Thomas Paine, American Patriot, Founder & Revolutionary Pamphleteer (1737-1809)

Are citizens so inured to the corruption of this State's elected officials that they ignore the loss of their liberty by these dictators, who do not allow them to participate in the formation of the constitutional laws by which they must live?

The Massachusetts Legislature is presently run by Democrat politicians who show nothing but contempt for you, the citizens they were elected to represent, not to rule.

Your votes are threats to their power! They wish to dictate that marriage has no meaning. That is why they will not allow the people of the state a vote on an amendment that defines it.

If marriage has no definition in law and anyone can marry anyone or anything, then the concept of family is destroyed. That is their goal, the destruction of the traditional family.
Government, not fathers, will thus become the head of households and your children will be the subjects of the state and not be under your influence, but the influence of those whose views are "politically correct."

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship." —Patrick Henry, American Patriot, Founder, Lawyer & Politician (1736-1799)

Your "hated" Judeo-Christian values can then be deemed "intolerant" and the institutions born of their "free exercise" will be rendered obsolete. The grip of the state will then be unassailable, and you and your descendants will live under a meaningless constitution over which "the people" have no control and are incapable of giving their consent.

Wake up, people. Liberty is on its deathbed!

"The tree of liberty must be watered periodically with the blood of tyrants and patriots alike. ... Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." —Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 3rd U.S. President (1801-1809)

References:

1 From Bulger's playbook, by Jeff Jacoby, The Boston Globe, July 22, 2002
2 Citizens Assembling Today to Protest Unresponsive Legislature, MassNews.com, July 19, 2002.
3 Sen. Birmingham Agrees He Broke the Law, MassNews.com, July 19, 2002.
4 What Really Happened at the State House - Right to Vote Was Denied in Violation of Constitution, MassNews.com, July 19, 2002.

Copyright © 2002 by Bruce A. Seibert.

Bruce A. Seibert can be contacted at BruceAPilot@yahoo.com.