What Gay Editors Did to Jeff Jacoby

The talk that three of the top news executives are gay is causing many to start connecting some of the dots. The Ombudsman at the Globe revealed in 1997 that both of Jeff Jacoby's editors were what the Ombudsman, himself, said were "gay activists." The subject came up because Jacoby had written that signs had been torn down at Harvard Law School by homosexual activists after a Christian group of students announced a meeting featuring a young man who had stopped practicing homosexuality.

The signs were replaced with others such as, "For those struggling with Judaism, there is hope in the truth. You can walk away. (To the gas chambers.)."

The Globe's token conservative, Jacoby, wrote in a column: "There is no hate in [the young speaker's] story. He doesn't berate gays, or mock them, or demand that they renounce homosexuality. He knows that many gays are content and happy with their lives. He also knows that many are not. . How was inviting this man to speak at Harvard analogous to sending Jews to gas chambers? Isn't his experience also an element of human 'diversity?' What does it say about gay advocates, who so loudly champion tolerance and freedom of sexual choice, that they are so poisonously intolerant of people who make a choice different from theirs?" Jacoby is Jewish.

		Five persons are listed in the paper as the top executives in the news department. Three of them are reported to be gay activists. They are Richard H. Gilman, Publisher; Martin Baron, Editor; and Helen W. Donovan, Executive Editor. MassNews reporter Ed Oliver did the questioning.
Columnist Jeff Jacoby was savagely attacked by the Globe Ombudsman on Nov. 3, 1997, who revealed that both of Jacoby's editors were "gay activists."

Because of this column, Jacoby was publicly attacked by the Ombudsman a few weeks later.

He revealed that Jacoby's column had almost been totally censored. There had been great conflict in the newsroom about it. He also revealed that the two activist editors were adamant that the column should not be printed. The Ombudsman opined that Jacoby had written "homophobic" columns before.

The Ombudsman concluded that the editor was correct in running the column even though it was "offensive," and even though it's a "high price to pay for freedom of the press." In the future, "Jacoby's articles about homosexuality will be judged case by case,"