Dear Atty. and Mrs. Pawlick:

 

     We were among the many who three years ago collected signatures for the Marriage Amendment petition which you sponsored.   We recalled seeing the small article in our local paper, probably picked up from the Globe, "Drive to Ban Gay Marriage Accused of Duping Signers,"   and so have been very interested to learn of what really happened, and we thank you very much for your mailings which have kept us informed.  

 

     We have composed a letter to our local paper, based on information taken from several of your mailings, and would like to ask if one or both of you could quickly scan/proof this letter for accuracy in terms of dates and information, and legal/political terminology.    Our goal was simply to inform people.   Our local paper is notoriously liberal.   We purchase it once every couple of weeks to paper the bottom of the guinea pigs' cages.......but it is the most widely-read paper in our area, so every now and again we write a Letter to the Editor as well.

 

     Please let us know if you would change anything, or add anything, to this letter.    It would also help for us to know the name of Margaret Marshall's husband, and whether or not he still works for the New York Times.   Thank you so much.   May God continue to bless you as you continue to sow seeds of faith.

 

Sincerely,  
Chip and Jan (Blessing) Winnard
Cheshire,   MA   01225


Letter to the Berkshire Eagle

 

September 10,  2004
Berkshire Eagle
Letters to the Editor
75 S. Church St.
Pittsfield, MA 01201

 

To the Editor of the Eagle:

 

As controversy continues to abound, both locally, and nationally,  relative to same-sex  "marriage," we have taken the initiative to do some personal research into just how it was that same sex unions so rapidly became "legal" in Massachusetts.    According to Massachusetts News founder and Editor, Attorney Ed Pawlick, (husband of Sally Pawlick, the founder of Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage):

 

— The Boston Globe was purchased in 1993 by the New York Times Company for the sum of $1.1 billion dollars.   At the time, the Taylor family, which had run the paper since 1873, were told that business would continue as usual, and they would remain in charge of the paper.
— In July of 1999,  a Senior Vice President from the Times, sent by "Pinch" Sulzberger (chairman of the Times Company since 1997 and himself an avid homosexual activist) arrived at the Globe, fired the aylors, and replaced them with NY Times-approved staff-persons.   (The Globe reported this.)
— In August of 1999, (one month later)  Margaret Marshall was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court.   (Her husband just happens to have been an employee of the NY Times.)

 

2.

 

— False accusations against Mass Citizens for Marriage were published by the Times (and then by the Globe) toward the end of MCM's massive state-wide signature gathering period in the spring of 2001.    (We recall that an article picked up by the Eagle at that time strongly asserted that signature gatherers for the MCM-sponsored citizen referendum that would have placed an amendment defining marriage as one man and one woman in front of Mass. voters (in 2004)  had fraudulently used a "bait and switch" tactic—in other words, the paper was reporting that MCM representatives had lied to petition signers by telling them they were signing a petition to ban the slaughter of horses, and had then substituted the marriage amendment petition for them to sign instead.   Since we were among the many state-wide who had painstakingly gathered 76,607 signatures (well over the 57,100 signatures required) to get that referendum on the ballot, we had a personal interest in finding out what had happened to render our hard  work  "null and void.")

 

We discovered that:
— The initial accusation against MCM began with a letter to the editor of the (New York Times controlled) Boston Globe on Nov. 15, 2001; this  was soon followed by a prominent story in the Boston Globe (Nov. 21, 2001) that was repeated on January 9, 2002, March 26, and April 25.  The Sunday edition of the New York Times published a large story with the headline, "Drive to Ban Gay Marriage Is Accused of Duping Signers."   This story went to 1.5 million readers three days before the legislative hearing on the Mass Citizens for Marriage referendum was to have taken place.

 

3.
----  The Globe's March 26th story reported that a lawsuit was going to be filed by the horse petition people against the Commonwealth of Mass to force it to put the horse referendum on the ballot even though their signature gatherers had not obtained sufficient signatures to do so.   The "horse people" claimed  "fraud by agents of Mass Citizens for Marriage" as the basis for their lawsuit.  This suit, however, was dismissed on the spot in Superior Court on April 24th because there was no evidence in existence to support that ANYONE connected with MCM had "baited and switched" a single signature.   Neither the Globe, nor the Times ever reported that fact, however.    Incredibly, even  after this lawsuit had been summarily dismissed, the Globe still libelously reported  as fact : "Members of the ‘Save Our Horses' campaign have sued the state because their signatures had been diverted to the marriage question, keeping their own initiative off the ballot."

 

So, for all those in our area who signed our "Marriage Amendment" petitions, we would like you all to know that :

 1.) There never was any foul play, and there was no law-breaking whatsoever on the part of Mass Citizens for Marriage or anyone affiliated with the collecting of those signatures for the Marriage Amendment petitions in 2000/2001.  

2.) Accusations against MCM were completely unfounded;  yet both the NY Times and the Boston Globe libelously reported such false accusations as "fact" and never retracted those  stories, even when MCM was legally cleared of any wrongdoing.   

3.) 76,607 signatures supporting a citizen referendum to properly place the question of Marriage on the ballot for Massachusetts voters to vote on went into a garbage can in Boston on July 31st 2002 when Senate President Birmingham broke the law,  and effectively spat in the faces of Mass. Citizens  in failing to schedule the required vote on the referendum. 

 

4.) And all along, the Boston Globe was giving a running  "coaching session" to legislators and others in positions of political influence to the effect that Birmingham  had the right and power to do this!   (We will agree that he had as much right and power to break our laws as any other resident of Massachusetts does.

 

     We have also become aware that Chief Justice Margaret Marshall, who obviously believed she alone could find a "right" to homosexual marriage in our state's constitution (where for hundreds of years no one else had "discovered" such a thing)  is in clear violation of canons 1 and 2 of the code of Judicial Conduct for her office under the Constitution of Massachusetts and as a result, should be removed from office.    By law, a judge must excuse him or herself from any case wherein he or she is pre-determined to have a strong bias one way or another.   Judges must be impartial in order to rule fairly.   If they cannot be impartial, they are to honorably excuse themselves from judging a particular case.   (Of course, such would require a judge to have a certain degree of personal integrity in the first place, which, obviously, Ms. Marshall lacks.)   

 

     Not only did Judge Marshall give a clearly biased speech at the Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association on May 7, 1999, but she was also affiliated closely prior to her appointment with attorney Mary Bonauto, who is a member of the homosexual law firm, GLAD.   Ms. Bonauto was one of the attorneys affiliated with the by-now-infamous "Goodridge vs. Department of Public Health" Decision (the judicial springboard from which Marshall catapulted Massachusetts into "legalization" of same-sex "marriage") of Nov. 18, 2003.

 

5.) In addition, the Supreme Judicial Court under Justice Marshall violated the Massachusetts Constitution when it "exercise(d) the legislative....power" by demanding that the legislature re-write marriage laws for Massachusetts within 180 days.   According to the Constitution of Massachusetts, it is illegal for any one of the three branches of government to usurp the power of any other in such manner.

 

     We presently have in our possession quite a number of copies of a formal "Commonwealth of Massachusetts Complaint Form" naming Margaret Marshall and describing the specific facts of her violation of the Mass. Code of Judicial Conduct.   These are completely filled out, and may simply be signed and mailed to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commission on Judicial Conduct by any Massachusetts citizen who believes that his or her right to vote on the controversial issue of same-sex unions was axed by a criminal act of judicial tyranny in Boston.   Anyone who desires to communicate to the State Government in Boston that the people of Massachusetts aren't willing to stand idly by and allow lawbreaking politicians and appointed "justices" decide FOR the people what should and should not be believed, supported, or accepted as "law" may feel free to write or call us for a form.
Sincerely,

 

Chip and Jan Winnard
Cheshire, MA   01225