What an exciting time to be a conservative in Massachusetts! The icons of liberalism are dropping like flies. Everything is changing, even though most people don't recognized it yet. But you do!

Chief Justice Margaret Marshall is jumping off-the-plank in order to force gay marriage on us. She's incredible! She didn't come to this country from her home in South Africa until two years after college. We welcomed her and made her Chief of our Supreme Court.

It's impossible for her to have a very firm grasp on the history of our country and its peoples. Everything she knows about us has been learned from Harvard and Yale Law School. But she is not known for her humility.

		She's also been inculcated by her husband, Anthony Lewis, who is twenty years older and not very attractive to most women. No wonder she is bitter and cynical about marriage and says it's mostly about "economics." Here's some of the history taught to her by this old man who used to write columns for the New York Times: • "Mr. (David) Duke was only following in the footsteps of respectable politicians. [Such as] Ronald Reagan [and] George Bush." • "If the official Republican platform is carried out, a 13-year-old girl who becomes pregnant as a result of being raped by her father and has an abortion could end in the gas chamber." • "People across the country, opponents and supporters both, are learning something that Massachusetts has understood for some time. Never underestimate the intelligence or determination of Michael Dukakis."
Atty. J. Edward Pawlick, Publisher

Even the Times apparently couldn't stand it any more. After writing a column which could have caused damage to our troops in Afghanistan, Lewis agreed to resign two years ago. But he was still billed in Australia last summer as a columnist for the Times where he told an audience that in less than a year since September 11, world opinion has swung from overwhelming sympathy with the U.S. to doubting its wisdom in pursuing "pre-emptive strikes" against Iraq.

Not to be outdone, his wife lectured Australia's Supreme Court that they "can, and should, tolerate a great deal more criticism of judges and of the judiciary."

We'll see how she reacts to criticism when she starts responding to the ethics complaint filed against her last month which says she is required to recuse herself from the gay marriage lawsuit.

Marshall is lecturing us on what marriage has always meant to Americans - and why she must be the first judge in our country to change our institution of marriage. (If she tells Australia what is wrong with their country while she is on vacation, think what's she's going to do to help us here.)

She will instruct us in history and sociology and advise us that the romance we have seen in love and marriage since our country began is not real. She says that marriage is really about "economics," and no woman likes marriage.

Our response will not be an easy assignment, although we did see Tom Birmingham lose the Governor's race because he followed the demands of the New York Times and its subsidiary, the Globe, and he even broke the law in an attempt to defeat the Protection of Marriage Amendment last year. His Democratic opponent in the primary, Shannon O'Brien, didn't understand either and followed the Times' and Globe's advice to come out strongly for gay marriage.

We need a "Hail Mary" because we don't have much time left to convince the other Justices of our Supreme Court that they will destroy themselves and the Court if they allow Marshall to attempt this coup. But we've had successful "Hail Marys" in the past, and hopefully will again.