LIBEL by New York Times

By J. Edward Pawlick

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Pinch Sulzberger's Boston Globe continued today to plot gay marriage for Massachusetts with its story, "Senate eyes civil union bill for SJC."

Its "unbiased" front-page article was intended as the first shot in an effort to prominently display the viewpoints of those in favor of special benefits for homosexuals.

This follows the desires of the Chairman of the New York Times, who engineered Chief Justice Margaret Marshall's ruling. It was he who had both his newspapers, the Boston Globe and the New York Times, libel the opponents of gay marriage, especially Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage, continually from 2001 to the present.

Today's article presented nothing new, but it gave the proponents of special rights for homosexuals the opening shot in the debate. Everyone knows that the Senate has passed domestic partnership benefits in prior years and would favor giving as much as it thinks the public would allow. After all, millions of dollars have been funneled into this state from homosexual activists and much of it has stuck to the hands of politicians.

Marshall's ruling on Nov. 18 was actually a tremendous rebuke to her, with her getting only a razor-thin majority of 4-3. The smartest and most capable judges used words such as "aberration" to strongly disagree. But neither the Globe nor the Times will ever report those harsh and unusual words from the other judges of the SJC.

The word "ugly" was used in today's story, a word which first surfaced in the initial story that the Globe ever wrote about MCM's attempt to retain marriage as it has always been in this country. Today's story says: "[Senate President Robert] Travaglini said he feels it is imperative to get the SJC's clarification in order to avoid an ugly and emotional showdown over the hot-button issue of legalizing gay marriage." We must wonder who is going to make it "ugly." Certainly, no one against gay marriage in this state has ever made it "ugly," although one gets that feeling that Pinch Sulzerger hopes he can make it that way.

A Sigh of Relief

Travaglini told the Globe, "It will be a sigh of relief to people in this building" if they can get this behind them. Of course it will. They all remember when Tom Birmingham and Shannon O'Brien were defeated for Governor last year because Birmingham broke the law in order to defeat the Constitutional Amendment which would have prevented Marshall from doing what she did last month. Then O'Brien flip-flopped on the issue and lost the traditional Democratic base.

These politicians are all very concerned. They want it both ways. They enjoy the money that is flowing to them and they are concerned about alienating the powerful AFL-CIO, which is apparently getting money on the national level. The AFL-CIO is very powerful in this state even though it has abandoned its traditional workers in favor of unionizing the workers of state and local governments. When the Legislature voted to violate the Constitution on July 17, 2002, a constant, low chant was heard in the chamber, "This is a union vote."

Pinch Sulzberger and his friends are in this for the long-term, so they don't care if they get gay marriage this year, because they know that civil unions will morph into gay marriage in a few years anyhow. Although the homosexual leaders, such as Arline Isaacson, are unhappy they didn't get gay marriage this time around, they are content because they know that "gradualism" and "incrementalism" will inure to their benefit.

Globe reporter Frank Phillips tells all about Sen. Travaglini and his "courageous" stand and quotes Isaacson, "We know he is not trying to hurt us," before he moved into a few words from the other side, who, according to Phillips, apparently are trying to hurt homosexuals.

The next sentence that Phillips wrote after Isaacson's statement says: "Meanwhile, those seeking to invalidate the court's decision by amending the constitution …" And then Phillips gives the obligatory response from the other side, which everyone knows by now is "ugly" and trying to "hurt" homosexuals. Then he quotes Ron Crews from Massachusetts Family Institute with a couple of sentences.

So, Pinch Sulzberger and the empire created by his great grandfather continue to dominate Massachusetts, but maybe not for long when people shortly discover that it was he who manufactured the gay marriage crisis or when his father and cousins discover what is happening to their beloved New York Times under Pinch's leadership. They always knew he was a little strange anyhow.