New York Times Advises Political Bosses to Break the
Law
When the
Democratic bosses first started violating
the state Constitution in 2002 in order to protect gay
marriage, they had the total support of the New York Times and its
subsidiary, the Boston Globe, which urged
the legislature to violate the law.
The Globe is doing
the same thing this year.
In its print edition
of July 12, 2006
it printed a large chart which dominated the front page of the City
& Region section. It’s not in the web edition, apparently because
of technical difficulties in doing so.
The chart is titled:
“What if ... Possible outcomes at today’s
Constitutional Convention for the gay-marriage amendment.”
Globe Advises Bosses to Break the Law
The Globe was
not timid ind advising the bosses to break the law.
It gave the following
advice in a headline: “Opponents of the [Amendment] could try to stall
or kill it by avoiding a direct vote.” Of course, they could also
do many other illegal things.
In the chart itself,
it wrote: “Opponents could move preemptively to adjourn the convention,
which if approved by a simple majority, would effectively kill the petition.” (The boldface type is in the
original Globe article.)
There is no question
that the opponents could vote to adjourn the convention but that would
violate the spirit, if not the letter of the Constitution. Many civic
leaders came out against that.
The bosses violated
the Constitution on the Resolution to remove Margaret Marshall and
her three stooges. That provision was written by John Adams in 1780
in the Constitution he wrote for this state.
Many would like to
know the lawyer from whom the Globe is obtaining their terrible advice.
They doubt that any knowledgeable lawyer is involved.