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PDF VERSION OF A LETTER TO NEW HAMPSHIRE ON THE EFFECTS OF SAME SEX MARRIAGE ON THE CULTURE OF MASSACHUSETTS POSTED APRIL
25 2009 JALDRICH - 1 - What same-sex "marriage" has done to Massachusetts It's far worse than most people
realize by Brian Camenker October 20, 2008 Anyone who thinks that same-sex “marriage” is a benign eccentricity
which won’t affect the average person should consider what it has done in Massachusetts. It’s
become a hammer to force the acceptance and normalization of homosexuality on everyone. And this train
is moving fast. What has happened so far is only the beginning. On November 18, 2003,
the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court announced its Goodridge opinion, ruling that it was unconstitutional
not to allow same-sex “marriage.” Six months later, homosexual marriages began to be performed. The public schools The homosexual “marriage” onslaught in public schools across
the state started soon after the November 2003, court decision. • At
my own children's high school there was a school-wide assembly to celebratesame-sex “marriage” in early December, 2003. It featured an array of speakers, including teachers at the school who announced that they would be “marrying”
their same-sex partners and starting families either through adoption or artificial insemination. Literature on same-sex marriage – how it is now a normal part of society – was handed out
to the students. • Within months it was brought into the middle schools. In September, 2004, an 8thgrade teacher in Brookline, MA, told National Public Radio that the marriage ruling had opened up the floodgates for teaching homosexuality. “In my mind, I know that, `OK, this is
legal now.' If somebody wants to challenge me, I'll say, `Give me a break. It's legal now,'”
she told NPR. She added that she now discusses gay sex with her students as explicitly as she desires.
For example, she said she tells the kids that lesbians can have vaginal intercourse using sex toys. • By the following year it was in elementary school curricula. Kindergartners were given
picture books telling them that same-sex couples are just another kind of family, like their own parents.
In 2005, when David Parker of Lexington, MA – a parent of a kindergartner – strongly insisted
on being notified when teachers were discussing homosexuality or transgenderism with his son, the school
had him arrested and put in jail overnight. • Second graders at the same school
were read a book, “King and King”,
about two men who have a romance and
marry each other, with a picture of them kissing. When parents Rob and Robin Wirthlin complained, they
were told that the school had no obligation to notify them or allow them to opt-out their child. • In 2006 the Parkers and Wirthlins filed a federal Civil Rights lawsuit to force the schools to notify parents and allow them to opt-out their elementary-school children when
homosexual-related subjects were taught. The federal judges dismissed the case. The judges ruled that because
same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, the school actually had a duty to normalize homosexual relationships
to children, and that schools - 2 - have no obligation to notify parents or let them opt-out their children!
Acceptance of homosexuality had become a matter of good citizenship! Think about that: Because same-sex marriage is “legal”, a
federal judge has ruled that the schools now have a duty
to portray homosexual relationships as normal to children, despite what parents think or believe! • In 2006, in the elementary school where my daughter went to Kindergarten, the parents of a third-grader were forced to take their child out of school because a man undergoing
a sex-change operation and cross-dressing was being brought into class to teach the children that there are now “different kinds of families.” School officials told the mother that her complaints to the principal
were considered “inappropriate behavior.” • Libraries have
also radically changed. School libraries across
the state, from elementary school to
high school, now have shelves of books to normalize homosexual behavior and the lifestyle in the minds
of kids, some of them quite explicit and even pornographic. Parents complaints are ignored or met with
hostility. Over the past year, homosexual groups have been using taxpayer money to distribute a large, slick hardcover book celebrating homosexual marriage titled“Courting Equality” into every school library in the state. • It’s become commonplace in Massachusetts schools for teachers to prominently display photos of their same-sex “spouses”
and occasionally bring them to school functions. Both high schools in my own town now have principals who are “married” to their same-sex partners, whom they bring to school and introduce to the students. • “Gay days” in schools are considered necessary to fight “intolerance” which may exist against same-sex relationships. Hundreds of high schools and even
middle schools across the state now hold “gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender appreciation days”. They “celebrate” homosexual marriage and move forward to other behaviors such as cross-dressing and transsexuality. In my own town, a school committee member recently announced
that combating “homophobia” is now a top priority. • Once homosexuality is normalized,
all boundaries begin to down. The schools are already moving on to normalizing transgenderism (including
cross-dressing and sex changes). The state-funded Commission
on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth includes leaders who are transsexuals. Public health • The
Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health is “married” to
another man. In 2007 he told a crowd of kids at a state-sponsored youth event that it’s “wonderful
being gay” and he wants to make sure there’s enough HIV testing available for all of them. • Since homosexual marriage became “legal” the rates of HIV / AIDS have gone up considerably in Massachusetts. This year
public funding to deal with HIV/AIDS hasrisen by $500,000. As the homosexual lobby group MassEquality wrote to their supporters after
successfully persuading the Legislature to spend that money: "With the rate of HIV infections rising
dramatically in Massachusetts, it's clear the fight against AIDS is far from over." • Citing “the right to marry” as one of the “important challenges” in a place where “it’s
a great time to be gay”, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health helpedproduce The Little Black Book, Queer in the 21st Century,
a hideous work of obscene pornography which was given to kids at Brookline
High School on April 30, - 3 - 2005. Among other things, it gives “tips” to boys on how
to perform oral sex on other males, masturbate other males, and how to “safely” have someone
urinate on you for sexual pleasure. It also included a directory of bars in Boston where young men meet
for anonymous sex. Domestic violence •
Given the extreme dysfunctional nature of homosexual
relationships, the Massachusetts Legislature
has felt the need to spend more money every year to deal withskyrocketing
homosexual domestic violence. This
year $350,000 was budgeted, up $100,000
from last year. Business • All insurance in Massachusetts must
now recognize same-sex “married” couples in
their coverage. This includes auto insurance, health insurance, life insurance, etc. • Businesses must recognize same-sex “married” couples in all their benefits, activities, etc., regarding both employees and customers. • The wedding industry is required serve the homosexual community if requested. Wedding
photographers, halls, caterers, etc., must do same-sex marriages or be arrested for discrimination. • Businesses are often “tested” for tolerance by homosexual activists. Groups of homosexual
activists often go into restaurants or bars and publicly kiss and fondle each other to test whether the
establishment demonstrates sufficient “equality” — now that homosexual marriage is “legal”.
In fact, more and more overt displays of homosexual affection are seen in public places across the state
to reinforce "marriage equality". Legal profession •
The Massachusetts Bar Exam now tests lawyers
on their knowledge of same-sex "marriage"
issues. In 2007, a Boston man, Stephen Dunne, failed the Massachusettsbar exam because he refused to answer the questions in it about homosexual marriage. • Issues regarding homosexual “families” are now firmly entrenched in the Massachusetts legal system. In many firms, lawyers in Massachusetts practicing
family law must nowattend seminars on homosexual "marriage".
There are also now several
homosexual judges overseeing the Massachusetts
family courts. Adoption of
children to homosexual “married” couples • Homosexual “married”
couples can now demand to be able to adopt children thesame as normal couples. Catholic Charities decided to abandon handling adoptions
rather submit to regulations requiring them to allow homosexuals to adopt the children in
their care. • In 2006 the Massachusetts Department of Social Services (DSS) honored two
men“married” to each other
as their “Parents of the Year”. The
men already adopted a baby through DSS
(against the wishes of the baby’s birth parents). According to news reports, the day after that adoption
was final DSS approached the men about adopting a second child. Homosexuals now appear to be put in line
for adopting children ahead of heterosexual parents by state agencies in Massachusetts. - 4 - Government mandates •
In 2004, Governor Mitt Romney ordered Justices
of the Peace to perform homosexual
marriages when requested or be fired. At least one Justice of the
Peacedecided to resign. • Also Marriage licenses in Massachusetts now have “Party A and Party B” instead of “husband and wife.” Imagine having a marriage license like that. • Since
homosexual relationships are now officially “normal”, the Legislature now gives enormous tax money to homosexual activist groups. In particular, the Massachusetts
Commission on Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth is made up of the most radical
and militant homosexual groups which target children in the schools. This year they are getting $700,000
of taxpayer money to go into the public schools. • In 2008 Massachusetts
changed the state Medicare laws to include
homosexual “married” couples
in the coverage. The public
square • Since gay “marriage”, annual gay pride parades have become more prominent. There are
more politicians and corporations participating, and even police organizations take part. And the envelope gets pushed further and further. There is now a profane
“Dyke March” through downtown Boston, and recently a “transgender” parade in Northampton that included bare-chested women who have had their breasts surgically removed
so they could “become” men. Governor Patrick even marched with his “out lesbian”
17-year old daughter in the 2008 Boston Pride event, right behind a “leather” group brandishing
a black & blue flag, whips and chains! The media • Boston media, particularly the Boston Globe newspaper, regularly does feature stories and news stories portraying homosexual “married” couples where regular
married couples would normally be used. It’s
“equal”, they insist, so there must be no
difference in the coverage. Also, the newspaper
advice columns now deal withhomosexual
"marriage" issues, and how to properly accept it. • A growing number
of news reporters and TV anchors are openly
“married” homosexuals who
march in the “gay pride” parades. In conclusion Homosexual
“marriage” hangs over society like a hammer with the force of law. And it’s only just begun.
Unfortunately, like elsewhere else in America, the imposition of same-sex marriage on the people of Massachusetts
was a combination of radical, arrogant judges and pitifully cowardly politicians. It’s
pretty clear that the homosexual movement’s obsession with marriage is not because large numbers
of them actually want to marry each other. In fact, a very low percentage of homosexuals actually “marry”.
(In fact, over the last three months, the Sunday Boston Globe’s marriage section hasn’t had any photos of homosexual
marriages. In the beginning it was full of them.) Research shows that homosexual relationships are fundamentally
dysfunctional on many levels, and “marriage” as we know it isn’t something they can achieve,
or even desire. This is about
putting the legal stamp of approval on homosexuality and imposing it with force throughout the various
social and political institutions of a society that would never accept it otherwise. To the rest of America: You've been forewarned. (For a copy of this article with links to source material see www.MassResistance.org)
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