Part III

Candidates Must State Boldly ....

All Candidates against Homosexual “Marriage” Will Be Trashed as “Haters”

       All candidates against homosexual “marriage” will be trashed by the establishment as “haters.”

       In order to battle that nastiness, they must get out and meet many people on the streets, not at meetings. Every candidate must spend many days going door-to-door meeting people at their homes and on the street, letting them see you face-to-face.

       It is clear that this is mandatory if they ever wish to get above 1/3 of the vote.

       No one said being a candidate would be an easy task. If a person is not willing to work at this, they should not run and cause their neighbors to donate their money and volunteer their time in a hopeless cause. That damages the movement, making it more difficult for the next candidate.

       Very few candidates did that this year and the results were dismal, but they do not need to be. Do not expect Gov. Romney to show how to do it because he doesn’t understand it himself.

My Personal Experience with Hate from Mass. Liberals

By Atty. J. Edward Pawlick

       When I first responded to a hateful article about Christians in the New Bedford Standard Times of Oct. 30, 1998, the Boston Globe (which was still run by the Taylor family at that time) immediately labeled me as a “hater” by the use of a prominent headline: “Gays Say Sherborn Lawyer Sent ‘Hate Mail’.”

       I had had homosexual friends and employees and they knew I respected them although I did hate their habit. So I planned a visit to Jeff Epperly, editor of Bay Windows. None of my male employees would go with me. So Sally came along. We had an hour-long visit with Epperly and convinced him I bore no grudge toward anyone but did not want to see teenagers being encouraged to be sexually active in any manner.

       Epperly accepted what I told him. His reporter Scott Giordano was more hostile but changed after we interacted. That newspaper became the only newspaper in the state that I trusted. Whenever Scott called I would immediately return it, knowing he would report what I said accurately and truthfully without spin. Of course, we did not agree on the issues, but we did respect each other.

       On the way home, Sally and I stopped at the Unitarian Church in Sherborn to talk with the woman minister, but she was obviously frightened to even be seen with Sally and me. She was obviously full of hate at us and had no desire to learn about us.

       (The Unitarians were featured as the “leading religious voice” for homosexual marriage earlier this year by A.P. But the truth is that very few Unitarians believe in a God. They are a debating and political society. They themselves report they have only 9.5% Christians, 46.1% Humanists who by definition do not believe in God, 19.0% Earth/Nature centered, 13.0 Theist, 6.2% Mystic, 3.6% Buddhist, 1.3% Jewish, 0.4% Hindu, 0.1 Moslem and 13.3% other. The numbers total more than 100% because some people gave more than one choice. The above survey was taken in 1997 and can be found on the Unitarian website, www.uua.org under the “Needs and Aspirations Survey.”)

       Fifty-percent of the plaintiffs in the marriage lawsuit were Unitarians, including Hillary Goodridge, and the UUA is proud to proclaim that fact.

       A week or so later in 1999 when the minister held a meeting at her beautiful, historic “church,” Sally and I appeared at the meeting to find about ten of her members and townspeople, along with 85 homosexual activists from around the state.

       All the major TV stations came but they weren’t let inside the church and were forced to show the scene from outside. Their television viewers were told that all inside the building were local people who were upset by me. Then the TV truck would quickly zoom off to their next assignment.

       One high school boy from Sherborn was encouraged by the crowd to “out” himself at the meeting. Afterwards, while Sally and I were talking with Fred Kuhn, the erudite editor of the other homosexual newspaper in Boston, innewsweekly, the boy came up to me sobbing and saying, “I don’t want to be different. I don’t want to be different.” If I hadn’t hated seeing a youngsters acquire that terrible habit, I certainly did after that tragic encounter.

       Our schools were encouraging him in that terrible habit and they were proud of that fact.

       I could write much, much more but it’s all in our archives if anyone is interested.