MassNews Stories that Helped Change Our Society

Homosexuality - Article Caused Huge Shock Waves Across the State in 1999
     Our bland article about homosexuality in January 1999 caused huge shock waves across the state. But no one understood until much later that we had also stepped on the toes of an unseen combatant, the powerful owner of the New York Times and the Boston Globe, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr.
     (We quickly learned why Rush Limbaugh and most commentators avoid this subject like the plague. As a result, it has profoundly damaged our country We have since learned we cannot pretend it’s not there.)
     We were pleased to see, when our article appeared in 1999, that the Boston Globe (still run by the Taylor family back then) quickly and prominently agreed with much of what we wrote (although they never mentioned us by name).
      As a result of that interplay, the Taylors were summarily fired by Sulzberger in July 1999 (in violation of an agreement made in 1993 when the Globe was purchased from the Taylors by Sulzberger’s father for $1.1 billion). A Senior Vice President of the Times, Richard Gilman, was dispatched by Sulzberger that July to take over and run the Globe. He remains Publisher of the Globe to this day.
     This was all done so that Margaret Marshall would become Chief Justice of the state’s Supreme Court and impose “gay marriage” in Massachusetts and across the nation. (That is not a “conspiracy” theory, it is the story of the agenda of just one man, Sulzberger.)
     Before we wrote our 1999 article, “An Intelligent Discussion About Homosexuality, Will Massachusetts Listen?” the only person writing about Gov. Bill Weld’s obsession with teaching school children about the glory of homosexuality, was a parent in Newton, Brian Camenker, who formed the Parents Rights Coalition in 1994 to protest. He was successful in passing a Parents Rights Bill in 1996, but he was marginalized by Sulzberger’s Globe and the media who tag along behind its dominating voice.  

     Our Article Was a Letter-Size Pamphlet Mailed to 15,000 School Administrators in Massachusetts
     Our article called for an “Intelligent Discussion” about what our schools were teaching our children about homosexuality.
      But that was not to be. The powerful, new owner of the New York Times, Arthur O. Sulzberger, Jr., had already decided this issue: All of his family before him, including his father, were homophobes and it was his duty to atone for them.  

“An Intelligent discussion about homosexuality”