1. Victories and defeats in New Hampshire, Maine, and Connecticut
on same-sex 'marriage', transgender bill.
These past few days saw a whirlwind of activity on
the culture war front across New England. Yesterday there were 2 victories in New Hampshire and a tough loss in Connecticut,
plus a huge public hearing in Maine with David Parker.
NEW HAMPSHIRE: 2 Victories!
Today the NH Senate Judiciary Committee to "not recommend" both the
same-sex "marriage" bill and the transgender bill! Thanks to all the work that the NH activists did for both of
these!
NH SAME-SEX "MARRIAGE" BILL
After
digesting everything from last week's contentious public hearing, the committee voted 3-2 to "not recommend"
this bill! MassResistance article "What Same-Sex Marriage did to Massachusetts," submitted as testimony
at NH hearing last week.
NH TRANSGENDER BILL
The public hearing on
the transgender "rights" bill took place yesterday afternoon. But it only lasted from 1:00 to 3:30 pm -- even though
there were more people waiting to speak. And as one observer told us, "Only the normal looking trannies showed up today."
A letter to the committee from MassResistance on the transgender agenda in Massachusetts was submitted as testimony. The word
around the Capitol is that the governor told the Senate to kill it. The committee voted 5-0 not to recommend the bill! Letter to NH Senate from MassResistance on transgender agenda, submitted as testimony at yesterday's
hearing.
Both of these bills will still face a Senate vote, but a "not recommend" has a strong influence,
we are told.
MAINE: Enormous public hearing on same-sex "marriage"
In the largest public hearing in Maine's history, held Wednesday in the Augusta Civic Center,
over 3,000 people came for testimony that started at 9:30 am and lasted into the night.
A major figure
that day was David Parker, who gave hard-hitting testimony about how officially sanctioning same-sex "marriage"
has led to forced homosexual indoctrination in the schools, as early as Kindergarten. Parker effectively countered the emotional
rants of homosexual activists as they tried to marginalize any opposition. The MassResistance article was also used for testimony.
Shamelessly using children. As one observer told us, the gay activists employed their particularly
distasteful tactic of using children as young as 8 or 9 to testify. Some of them were frightened, very upset, and even crying.
It was extremely inappropriate, to say the least, many people felt. The homosexual supporters also used intimidation tactics
such as turning their backs en masse to certain pro-marriage speakers. Maine Public Broadcasting Network article:
High Turnout In Augusta For Marriage Equality Bill
(featuring David Parker)
Video: TV coverage of hearing: WMTW Channel 8
 | David Parker testifies before the Maine Judiciary Committee and thousands of others on
Wednesday. |
The Judiciary Committee will probably make a decision sometime next week
whether to kill the bill or send it to the full legislature, starting with the Senate.
CONNECTICUT: A terrible loss
The Connecticut Legislature passed the same-sex "marriage"
bill on Wednesday, and yesterday the governor signed it into law. The law removes any male-female references to the
state's marriage statutes and also transforms all current civil unions into legal marriages over a period of time. Last
fall the Connecticut supreme court ruled that not to allow same-sex "marriage" was unconstitutional.
An
odd type of pro-family "victory." Strangely, pro-family groups in Connecticut claimed a victory because
they were able to get religious exemptions against prosecution for discrimination written into the new law. They had been
lobbying furiously for those amendments, according a major pro-family website involved with the issue. Somehow, to us, this
seems like a bit of a retreat.
Hartford Courant: Amendment Gives Religious Organizations Exemption To Same-Sex Ruling
Family Institute of Connecticut website
2. Transgender
activists join gay lobby in fight to restore $850,000 for homosexual programs in schools. Will YOU make just one phone
call? The transgender agenda in Massachusetts public schools (funded with tax dollars)
has become every parent's nightmare. Men in dresses and women with hormone-induced facial hair have been pushing their "programs" targeting kids in schools across the state, sometimes even working unsupervised with students. So now the transgender activists
are lobbying the legislature to restore the money to continue this.
As we've been reporting, the Massachusetts House Ways and Means Committee has completely cut the $850,000 for homosexual programs. The gay lobby has
filed amendments to get the money back. It's up to all of us to stop it.
Here's what the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition (which is surprisingly well-funded from foundations, etc.) sent out to its supporters this week: "Call your legislators to save funding for our LGBT youth...Funding for these programs and services has
been eliminated in the FY10 Ways and Means Budget. We cannot risk the health and safety of our GLBT youth by cutting basic
funding that supports life-saving services."
At the same time this is happening,
just yesterday the Mass. legislature started talking about expanding the state sales tax because of the incredible budget
deficits. Yet they might spend nearly a million dollars for this destructive lunacy.
Will
you make just one phone call?
These amendments can easily be stopped by the Speaker
of the House, Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop). But he's been hearing a lot from the homosexual lobby. Now he needs to
hear from our people loud and clear.
You have a chance to make a difference. If everyone
reading this makes just one phone call, that will send an unbelievable message.
DeLeo needs to hear from you! EVERYONE: Pick up your phone (or email) and call Speaker
Robert DeLeo right now. It won't take long, but it will make a big difference! "DO
NOT to allow budget amendments #559 and #714 to pass. There's in an enormous budget crisis. We do NOT want taxpayer money
going to push homosexual programs in our schools targeting kids."
Speaker of the
House Robert DeLeo (D-Winthrop)
Phone - call both offices:
State House: 617-722-2500
District Office: 781-289-8965
Email: Robert.DeLeo@state.ma.us Thank you!!
3. More Boston Globe uber-bias:
Big coverage of pro-tax gathering after ignoring Tea Parties. Last week thousands of people across
the state gathered for the anti-tax "Tea Party" rallies. In Boston it was estimated that 3,000
people were on the Common. But the Boston Globe didn't bother to cover it except for a small mention inside of
another article (about other rallies in Kentucky).
Yesterday a few dozen pro-tax people showed up
(from the corporate- and union-funded group ONE Massachusetts) and held signs outside of the State House demanding higher taxes to deal with the state budget problems. So today the Globe
had a big photo on the front page of the Metro section, with a sizeable (and fawning) article.
Is it any wonder
the Globe is losing money and readers? (And may be shut down by the parent company, The New York Times, soon!)
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