Article 8 Alliance – Massachusetts –
** November 30 Update **
Published
6:00 pm every Monday, and Thursday
Statewide
movement to remove the SJC 4 and take back our government.
Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts CAN be stopped.
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In
this email update:
1. Bills being filed in Legislature for upcoming
session & what's going on.
2. Homosexual activists hold strategy at
forum in downtown hotel.
3. New email update schedule (this time we're
serious!).
[NOTE: If some links don't work, go
to our website.]
NEWS ITEM: Major political
figures celebrate at State Sen. Jarrett Barrios' "wedding" to another
man [Boston
Globe–Nov. 22] We hate
to even show this because it illustrates just how profoundly the Massachusetts
political establishment has caved in to this state-sanctioned depravity. At least the Globe spared us from printing
any photos.
Click
here to read the article.
The following day the Globe did another
article discussing how Sen. President Travaglini and other
guests had actually voted for the constitutional amendment to ban same-sex
marriage. From that article:
Those who attended the
weekend wedding of state Senator Jarrett T. Barrios and political consultant
Doug Hattaway said that Senate President Robert E. Travaglini gave a
beautiful and moving toast at the couple's reception. The Senate president
described the gay couple and their two adopted sons as a true family,
in a speech that state Representative Michael E. Festa, also a wedding
guest, called "an extraordinary statement of support."
. . .
Other state senators
who voted for the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage also
celebrated Saturday with the couple: Ways and Means chairwoman Therese
Murray, of Plymouth; Stephen A. Baddour of Methuen; Joan M. Menard of
Fall River; and Frederick E. Berry of Peabody. None returned calls yesterday.
If nothing else, it shows just how
completely out of touch with reality – and with the population – these
elected officials have become.
The citizens NEED to send them a message, and that's what we'll
be doing!
NEWS ITEM: "Priest
asks lawmaker to quit choir post – views on abortion, gay marriage cited"
[Boston Globe–Nov. Nov. 17]
Some GOOD news for a change!!.
A Massachusetts religious leader takes his church and religion
seriously, and does the right thing.
State Rep. Barbara L'Italien is as horrible as they come, actively
supporting homosexual marriage, abortion, and in general any culture-of-death
issue she can find. But she still claims to be a "good Catholic."
Rev. William M. Clearly sees it differently, and acted on principle.
Click
here to read the article.
NEWS ITEM: "No court
ruling on same-sex marriage – US justices won't hear Mass. case [Boston Globe–Nov. 30] Last May, eleven Massachusetts reps &
senators, along with the Catholic Action League, began a lawsuit to
overturn the SJC same-sex marriage decision, on the basis that it violated
the separation of powers mandated in the US Constitution. It lost in the lower courts, and on Monday
the US Supreme Court refused to hear the case. The lesson here, unfortunately, is: don't
depend on courts to undo the damage of other courts. We need to roll up our sleeves and do
it ourselves.
Click
here to read the article.
=== 1. Bills being filed in Legislature for upcoming
session.
===
For the past several days Article
8 Alliance has been "working the State House" getting our bills (and
Senate and House sponsors) ready for the Dec. 1 deadline. (Actually, the bills must be filed by
Dec. 1 but we have until Dec. 15 to add co-sponsors.) Monday and Tuesday we went door to door
in the State House, meeting with the Legislators and their staffs personally.
It's always an interesting experience.
But this time things are noticeably different.
On one hand, there seems to be a sense – especially with their
being a new pro-gay leadership and the Governor wanting to look "moderate"
– that the homosexual lobby is a juggernaut that's almost unstoppable. It's depressing to many pro-family reps.
(So we try to cheer them up!)
Effect of Nov. 2 elections
On the other hand, back last January
and February we were barely tolerated when we went to legislators looking
for support. But now legislators
and their staffs were very, very friendly as soon as we introduced ourselves. Our participation in elections where we
stopped incredibly well-funded and well-organized homosexual challengers
seems to have gotten noticed.
There's a growing sense in many circles that because of our presence,
legislators can now be bolder in standing up to the homosexual lobby. And that if things get hot, we won't back
down.
The Bill of Address
We'll talk more in Thursday's email
about the new bills we're filing.
But one of them, of course, is the Bill of Address (it's on our home page). And Rep. Emile Goguen, of course, is as
courageous as ever, willing to stand in the front of the line and be
the lead sponsor.
You may remember that last spring
when Rep. Goguen originally filed the bill of address, the main homosexual
lobbyist, Arlene Isaacson, was furious.
She went right into Goguen's office and promised him that she
would see that he's defeated in November.
Well, it didn't quite happen.
The homosexuals put up a candidate and spent tons and tons of
money, brought in people, etc.
We came in and helped Goguen.
In the end, Rep. Goguen won with 71% of the vote!
But there are rumors, which we've
heard from two or three sources, that the leadership of the Legislature
thinks they can hold up the bill of address, as a "deal" to the pro-gay
reps in exchange for not allowing a vote on repeal of the law restricting
keeping out-of-state homosexuals from "marrying" here. Just rumors . . . but as you know they
never asked us, and we're not in the mood for any shady deals.
We'll keep you up to date as things
happen . . .
=== 2. Homosexual activists hold strategy at
forum in downtown hotel.
===
On Thursday evening, Nov. 18,, as
reported in the media (and in our previous emails) the homosexual activists
had a gala "public forum" at the Colonnade Hotel downtown to celebrate
the one-year anniversary of their dreadful court ruling.
Their forum was billed as "the latest
analysis about where we go from here – both in Massachusetts and across
the country" and it certainly
was enlightening. A lot
of people went, and several took notes and picked up flyers and handouts. Pretty much all their leadership was there,
and outlined and explained their upcoming strategies. You really have to see this.
We had promised you a full report
in our last email. But
we got more stuff to sort through than we expected, and it's taking
us longer than we planned to put it all together, with everything else
going on this past week. We
PROMISE to have it by Monday's email!
=== 3. New email update schedule.
===
We're going to get on track to our
new publishing schedule. >From
now through December, we'll be sending out two email updates per week
– on Monday and Thursday.
We know our credibility is a little thin regarding making our
6:00 pm deadlines, but we're going to improve, we promise!
[We mistakenly gave the
wrong link to this in our last email – so we're repeating this]
Worth looking at. TV NEWS CLIP OF NOV 18 ARTICLE 8 PRESS
CONFERENCE:: CHANNEL 5 COVERAGE (Nov. 18, evening): Most of the major TV stations covered
our press conference, but this was among the best. An interesting juxtaposition: first they show us, then they interview
Senate President Travaglini talking about how he believes "most citizens"
would not support removing the judges because they "were doing their
jobs."
Click here to
see the news clip. Then click on picture of 2 brides kissing
(yuk!). May take several
seconds to load]
AS WE’VE
BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG – IT’S UP TO THE PEOPLE NOW!
THIS CAN AND WILL BE WON.
But your help is still needed. We can't do this without YOUR support.
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Donations
can also be mailed to: Article 8 Alliance, PO Box 1612, Waltham,
MA 02454
Contact us if you want to get
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