Spinning Violence

Well I knew it wouldn't take too long (although they have been taking weeks to respond to recent events) but Massresistance A.K.A. Brian Camenker has commented on Let Loose Larry Cirignano's alleged attack on an innocent woman:

Judge David Ricciardone's ruling today is unbelievably absurd. Either he didn't understand what actually happened, or he has no understanding of constitutional law.

This from Brian Camenker and we all know how "up on the law" Brian & Amy are don't we! Hmm...when did they pass the bar? But wait, there's more:

Our question to you: Do you get it yet? This happened to David Parker; it happened to Larry; it happened to Diane Steele. It could happen to you next. The
time for us to be "polite and reasonable" seems to have passed.

Yeah it could happen to you too if you take the law into your own hands and then you deserve what you get. This is comedy! According to them what Let Loose Larry, Mad Dad Parker and Slap Happy Mom Steele did was "polite and reasonable", I guess I'd be afraid what they'd do when they're not. When pushing an innocent woman to the ground, holding up in an elementary school and slapping a man on street is considered "polite and reasonable" then someone is really out of touch.

"Family Values" Senator Outed for Using Prostitution Ring

One of the biggest news today is that Louisiana Senator David Vitter, the man who co-authored the Federal Marriage Amendment got caught:

Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, whose telephone number was disclosed by the so-called ''D.C. Madam'' accused of running a prostitution ring, says he is sorry for a ''serious sin'' and that he has already made peace with his wife.

Here's what he had to say just last year about the marriage amendment before he was outed as a john for prostitute ring:

"I don't believe there's any issue that's more important than this one," said Sen. David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican. "I think this debate is very healthy, and it's winning a lot of hearts and minds. I think we're going to show real progress."

And here's what he had to say about Massachusetts:

“This is a real outrage. The Hollywood left is redefining the most basic institution in human history, and our two U.S. Senators won’t do anything about it.

We need a U.S. Senator who will stand up for Louisiana values, not Massachusetts’s values. I am the only Senate Candidate to coauthor the Federal Marriage Amendment; the only one fighting for its passage. I am the only candidate proposing changes to the senate rules to stop liberal obstructionists from preventing an up or down vote on issues like this, judges, energy, and on and on.” stated David Vitter.

And as Below Boston noted from the Boston Globe:

[Massachusetts has] High education rates, low teenage birth rates, low divorce rates - real family values that we actually live and not just spout off about.

Lovely, just lovely.

I knew it: Boy's Life Magazine Turned Me Gay!

Oh, dear, lunacy is at an all time high. Ms. Massresistance is referencing a World Nut Daily post about "Big Sodomy"! She (and the Wingnuts over at WND) want the ex-gays to file a class action lawsuit against...you know, I give up, I have no idea who they want to sue:

Hopefully Americans aren't as slow this time to accept the findings, as we were when all we did was smoke. If you have a friend or relative who has been persuaded by the media, big business, politicians, university programs, including courses of study, or any person or group to try this deadly lifestyle, and especially if your friend or relative is already suffering from a serious disease contracted as a result of it, talk to him or her at the first opportunity about the very real possibility of starting a class-action lawsuit against the group or groups that persuaded them to enter into the activity that did them in.

Once again, the nuts are calling being gay "that deadly lifestyle". Does that mean I can sue the Boy Scouts of America and that girl in college (who made me realize I couldn't go through with it just to see) because those are things I did and didn't do that must have made me gay?

I mention the Boy Scouts of America because yes, I am in fact an Eagle Scout and I spent quite a few years in the Scouting program. It was GREAT too, I learned a lot about taking care of myself in the Scouts. I've learned and met many Eagle Scouts who are also now gay men. Who else would spent so much time earning merit badges, doing good deeds and performing service projects for the community? Most of the straight boys I knew were out drinking and trying to have sex with the girls. Unfortunately, the Boy Scouts have now turned away boys who might be gay or are gay identified and would probably drum out any boy wasn't identified as "straight".

And that girl in college, well, we never did get it on, although she wanted to and she was attractive, however, my parents always taught me to wait until I found someone I loved, and well, I really wasn't interested. My parents taught me that sex was nothing to be ashamed of, but it is much more special if you loved that person, oh and take protection, wear a condom (because there were a lot of diseases out there and you didn't want to catch anything.) Mind you, this was pre-AIDS and my parents were being VERY REALISTIC (kids have sex).

Sexually transmitted diseases have been around for centuries and you have to protect yourself from them whether you are straight or gay.

I think its a riot that these "conservatives" who want people to take responsibility for their actions are so quick to blame the media, big business and politicians. These are the same people who talk about frivolous lawsuits and yet are calling for a class action lawsuit, I guess Martha Stewart should watch out, as well as the high school drama clubs. It must be because nothing says "you gotta be gay" than watching "The Laramie Project" and learning about how Matthew Sheppard was beaten to death and tied to fence because he was gay.

These hate groups are probably starting to get scared that the victims of gay bashings just might start suing them for inciting violence with their words and hatred (which coincidentally is what stopped the KKK, thanks Southern Poverty Law Center!)

Tweedledum & Tweedledummer

I just recently included a link to Pam's House Blend on this site. Pam's been covering the actions of the homophobic right for a while now, on the now defunct Massresistance radio show even called her a "A nutty lesbian blogger" so I'm in good company. It was through Pam's House Blend that I first started following Porno Pete's actions (Porno Pete is Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth Against Homosexuality)

Having been going on both Porno Pete's & Massresistance's websites I've noticed lately that they have been posting the same anti-gay propaganda:

• July 7th: Barber: ‘Gays’ Don’t Want ‘Marriage’ After All and Massresistance's The Myth of "Gays" Wanting "Gay Marriage"
• July 7th: Porno Pete's MUST VIEWING: Lesbian Gangs Raping Girls; GLAAD Tries to Block Airing of News Segment & Massresistance's Violent Lesbian & Gay Gangs Surface in Schools
• Porno Pete: Michael Glatze ‘Comes Out’ of Homosexuality: former ‘Young Gay America’ Magazine Co-founder & Massresistance's July 9th 2007 post Prominent national 'gay' activist leaves homosexuality--declares lifestyle 'repulsive'.

and finally, they both use Gay people to fundraise. Without us how would they fund their extra-curricular activity?

Porno Pete:

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I guess these days the Anti-Gay Homophobic Web Ring is getting smaller and smaller and even though they keep repeating the same anti-gay propaganda they don't want people to know about the other anti-gay sites because that then infringes upon their fundraising ability.

The Latest Shocker: Massresistance Still Posting Anti-Gay Propaganda as News

For someone who is supposed to be always concerned with the truth (of course we know better) Ms. Massresistance just regurgitates the slop passed off as news by Bill O'Reilly of the Fox New Channel via the anti-gay Americans for "Truth" about Homosexuality:

The latest shocker: new violent homosexual gang activity is springing up in high schools across America. The O'Reilly Factor broke this news nationally a few weeks back, but since we don't watch much TV, we're only just now encountering this in Americans for Truth's report, "MUST VIEWING: Lesbian Gangs Raping Girls; GLAAD Tries to Block Airing of News Segment"(7-6-07).

Of course it does fit in with her obsession of all things gay however, the biggest issue with the post is that there are no facts to support the O'Reily news story. This up from the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Nine-millimeter Glocks painted pink? Dykes taking over? More than 150 lesbian gangs in the Washington, D.C., area alone? These claims are, as Wheeler ["Fox News crime analyst" Rod Wheeler] suggested, "very, very interesting." They're also very, very flimsy. Gaithersburg, Md., Detective Patrick Word, president of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Gang Investigators Network, an intelligence-sharing organization of 400 criminal justice professionals in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and Virginia, said there is no evidence whatsoever of a lesbian gang epidemic in his region. "Our membership reports only one lesbian gang," Word told the Intelligence Report.

(snip)

Confronted by the Intelligence Report, Wheeler was unable, in several phone and E-mail exchanges over a two-day period, to specify a single law enforcement agency or officer, police report, media account or any other source he relied upon for his D.C. area lesbian gangs claim. But he insisted that his report was accurate and that any law enforcement officer who disagrees is "out of touch." "For some reason or other, these organizations don't lay it on the line because they don't know what is going on on the streets," said Wheeler. "This is a serious crisis and the so-called experts are missing it."

Oh, and what about the TV report Ms. Massresistance says that GLAAD is trying to hide from the public:

Similarly, O'Reilly's introductory mention of a Tennessee lesbian gang called Gays Taking Over that is "involved in raping young girls" appears to have been based solely on a highly dubious Feb. 28 television report from WPTY-TV, an ABC affiliate in Memphis, Tenn. Featuring dramatic "reenactments" of high school bathroom rape scenes shot in grainy black-and-white footage, the lengthy segment's vaguely salacious claims about local high school girls being raped and "sodomized" with "sex toys bought on the Internet" was based almost entirely on the lurid musings of a single Shelby County gang officer.

Titled "Violent Femmes," the sweeps-week segment was so thinly sourced and grotesquely sensationalized that it's difficult to believe that any professional journalist found it to be credible. And it wasn't. Under intense pressure from local gay and lesbian activists, the affiliate's station manager finally admitted that WPTY-TV's reporters had neither independently verified the gang officer's overheated claims nor obtained any documentary evidence such as arrest records or written police reports to substantiate their tale. As the station grudgingly conceded, "Our investigation did not turn up widespread violence in schools due to this."

You can read all about the lies Ms. Massresistance is pushing over at the Southern Poverty Law Center's site. I guess their blog & Website is just like their failed radio show which had the subheading: "Local News and Views You won't hear anywhere else". The real reason you won't hear it anywhere else is because it isn't true!

Hat tip to Pam's House Blend for the link to the SPLCenter site.

Romney, Massresistance & Porn

Ms. Massresistance is off the gays (I'm sure for only for a brief time) and again attacking Mitt Romney, you remember him: the former absentee Massachusetts governor; the guy who Massresistance blames for removing them from WTTT, does the name ring a bell? Well, she is now posting about the apparent hypocrisy of Mitt being on the Marriott Board of Directors when Marriott allowed pay-per-view porn in the Marriott hotels. They want to know how much money Romney has made on hotel porn:

While Mitt Romney served on the Marriott Hotels Board of Directors for ten years in the 1990s, he benefitted financially from the chain's profiteering on hard-core pornography (available via in-room TV). If we break down Marriott profits during the period when Romney was involved, how much money did this devout Mormon make from porn purchases?

The same could be asked of Massresistance. They are the ones who put up, what they claim to be "gay porn" on their website (and repeatedly mention it in their emails) only to raise money to pay Brian Camenker and "volunteer" Amy's salaries. Likewise, they go after Romney for talking out of both sides of his mouth when they've done exactly the same:

• They claim to have Judeo-Christian values but are left standing with the plank in their own eyes as they are trying to remove the splinter's from other's eyes, including the sin of pride;


• They claim that they are against the "Vote On Marriage Amendment" yet at every instance A & B attack the Massachusetts legislators for not approving it. (Brian Camenker even signed the petition to put it to the voters all the while saying he was against it);


• They talk about gay people being "overly concerned with youth" when they are the ones entering both school and outside events videotaping and recording youths against their parent's permission and publishing their pictures on their websites.

Back to the Romney bashing, it all comes to light in a link provided by Pam's House Blend:

The poll results indicate that 50% of all Christian men and 20% of all Christian women are addicted to pornography," said Clay Jones, founder and President of Second Glance Ministries whose ministry objectives include providing people with information which will enable them to fully understand the impact of today's societal issues. 60% of the women who answered the survey admitted to having significant struggles with lust; 40% admitted to being involved in sexual sin in the past year; and 20% of the church-going female participants struggle with looking at pornography on an ongoing basis.

I wonder if Massresistance knows the Christians who took this poll and know that they are lying (because we all know that a Christian would NEVER lie) Isn't one of the conservative principles taking responsibility for one's own actions and not blaming others for things that you do? Maybe, just maybe, Romney is trying to attract those 50% of Christian men who are addicted to pornography, you never know.

Week 6: Massachusetts Held Hostage...

from listening to Brian & Amy.

Yes, Virginia, it's been 6 six weeks since the last Massresistance: The Radio Show has appeared ANYWHERE! In 6 weeks they've missed talking about the Youth Pride March, the Parent's Rights Bill hearings, getting blasted by a Holocaust survivor, Boston Gay Pride and the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention. At least the GLBT mannequins are safe!


Because I've missed all those "Oh Man"'s and "bone chilling" descriptions my husband has taken up to using them when he goes through the mail just to settle my nerves. And of course we still miss that angelic voiced Amy with no last name.


Do you miss it? I know my life is not the same.

Massresistance Thinks It's Reasonable to Hit Another Person

For what seems like the umpteenth time, Massresistance is a day late and a dollar short. They now have on their website their version of why a woman, who attacked a man at the Constitutional Convention, was arrested. It's only how many days since the ConCon? Did it take that long to fabricate this story?

Diane was peaceably standing on the pro-family side of the street with her son, inside the blue police barricade. Her sign (see below) was provocative but nothing like the hate-filled anti-Christian signs the homosexual activists were waving. Even a little dissent isn't tolerated.

I guess the hate filled signs our side was carrying which said stuff like "No discrimination in the Constitution" and "Equal Rights for All", are, you know, really those anti-Christian type of signs.


Then all of a sudden someone started talking to her and she slapped him, but of course, we set it all up. Our side took her hand and forcibly hit the man she was arguing with or better yet, maybe the man just pushed his head into her hand, kinda like what they also claimed when Larry Cirignano assaulted that woman in Worcester:

It's very clear that they set her up. Soon after the vote was announced, homosexual rights supporter Jack Kirschenbaun of Malden went across the street and stood right next to her. A friend was standing right in front of them. Kirschenbaun began a vicious attack against Diane. "Why do you hate so much," he started out, and it went on from there non-stop, without allowing Diane to even reply. Then it got sexual. "Are you a virgin?" he shouted at her. "Have you ever had an orgasm."

At that point, Diane slapped him. "I wasn't really thinking about it," she said later. "It was just an instinctive reaction." It sounds reasonable to us.

(Does this legally constitute a sexual harassing verbal assault? The police weren't even interested. Also, the son was apparently several yards away and didn't hear the incident.) Did she ask the police? And why wasn't she watching her 9 year old son? Don't you think if she actually believed what she wrote on her sign then she wouldn't have even brought her son to be around, GASP, GAY people!

Let me repeat what they said when they heard that a woman violently attacked another human: IT SOUNDS REASONABLE TO US. Oh, really?! Massresistance is now OK with physical violence. For future reference, when Amy gets in your face and starts asking you about "Cum vomit", according to Massresistance, it is perfectly reasonable to slap her and claim it was just an instinctive reaction. Of course it is probably instinctual if you're prone to violence, WHICH IS AGAINST THE LAW.


I'll leave you with one last picture of the "petite" Diane Steele, look closely at the picture, what do you think she's saying? I wonder if her 9 year old son was nearby to see his slap happy mom get taken away? Give it up for Pro-family values.

Back Under A Rock

While celebrating this 3rd Anniversary, I couldn't help but reminisce about all the gay haters who "have left the building" (no, they're not dead, just gone from the Massachusetts anti-gay bandwagon):

• J. Edward Pawlick: The man who started MassNews disappeared from practically everywhere. His Massnews website is out of commission and although his wife's anti-gay website is still up, it hasn't been updated in years. It says they are still waiting for their "Bill of Address" to be voted on. (On a side note, this "Bill of Address" is Brian Camenker's claim to fame since that is the reason he started the Article 8 Alliance, to remove the judges, when that never happened they changed the name to Massresistance). Ms. Massresistance used to also write for this "conservative" website.

• Ron Crews: The head of the Mass Institute Against Gays A.K.A. Mass "Family" Institute before Kris "My marriage is affected by same sex couples marrying" Mineau, left the state to go back down south after a failed attempt to win a seat in the Massachusetts Legislature. He was one of the many Republicans then-Governor Romney boosted to initially run for office before Romney left the Massachusetts GOP in the dust (all the Republicans lost miserably because Romney became "Box-office poison") .
  
• Laurie Letourneau: This angry woman threatened to leave the State if same sex couples started getting married. They did and she did, good riddance. She also received the MFI Citizenship award.

• Larry Cirignano: He was part of the Vote On Marriage group until he physically attacked a young woman at a rally in Worcester. He also led the Catholic Citizenship in Boston. He has now been relocated to Virginia but comes back to Massachusetts for court hearings and anti-gay activism.

Actually, looking back on them all, most of them were involved with the Massachusetts Institute Against Gays. They seem to go through more members than Imelda Marcos went through shoes. This must be some kind of anti-marriage curse. Who will it strike next?

Happy 3rd Anniversary!

MassEquality is having a big party tonight with Governor Patrick! (I guess Massresistance forgot to alert its lemmings to tell the Governor not to come. Now I wonder how they will list this as a success).

I BET the Governor is Listening to Massresistance...

and having a good laugh. You see, Massresistance is lying once again about their "Successes":

Your torrent of angry calls and emails did it!! Governor Deval Patrick, avowed "ally" of the homosexual movement, abruptly backed down and stayed away from the homosexual movement's annual hardcore "Youth Pride" event. Do not underestimate the power of outraged citizens armed with a single purpose -- even when things look bleak. Remember, this is the place where the American Revolution began.

Right...But the thing is...the governor wasn't even planning on being there. How do I know this, read this article in BayWindows which was put out last week around the same time Massresistance claims that the Governor was still attending:

“The theme of this year [Youth Pride] is ‘Make a statement,’ so every year we like to give awards based on the theme,” said Lydon. “GLSEN [is receiving the award] for not making a statement on Day of Silence but also making a bold statement at the same time, Amanda Palmer for her musical statement and her crazy fashion statements … and we’re giving Deval the award for his political statement.”

She said Patrick himself would not be attending Youth Pride, and she said organizers were uncertain about whether Palmer would accept her award in person.

My my my, I would guess that BayWindow's deadline is the latest, Wednesday night (possibly earlier), so even they knew that the Governor wasn't going to attend however, Massresistance just leads their lemmings to believe that he didn't attend because of them. What a crock! although not surprising. They would probably take credit for the sun rising and falling everyday.
I can't wait to see how they spin the inaction on the bills they supposedly submitted to the Legislature. I predict none of them will see the light of day but surely Massresistance will somehow list them as a success.

Day of Defiance is More Like Day of De-Dud

Over at Article Hate/Massresistance/Parents Rights Coalition, etc... Brian and Amy are extolling the success of the "Day of Defiance". If you recall, the "Day of Defiance" was supposedly started by students but, of course, on their website: Massresistance, A.K.A. Brian Camenker, is named as one of the two organizations who started it:

The Day of Defiance was initiated by the Massachusetts grassroots conservative groups MassResistance and the Massachusetts Federation of Conservative Bloggers to stand up for taxpaying parents' rights in public education, while also offering an alternative view of the issues to Massachusetts students (a rare occurrence, undoubtedly the first for many). The Day of Defiance will feature events outside of a number of Massachusetts high schools with picketers, sign holders, and guest speakers during free periods, lunch time, and after school (when the Breaking the Silence event commences). Supportive conservative students, parents, and teachers, are encouraged to join us in this effort to protest the rampant cases of educational malpractice in our public schools, while also providing students with the other half of the story on family issues and conservative ideas which have been censored, stereotyped, and belittled during the course of their 'education'.

Of course, none of this happened. Even the Massresistance website states that no students were involved (but they keep trying to tell us that the "students" wink, wink, organized it):

To our surprise, none of the students who organized the Day of Defiance actually participated. They said were afraid of retribution by the school, particularly certain faculty members. (And they didn't think of this when they started organizing it?)

And most of the parents who had enthusiastically committed to protesting also chickened out at the last minute. For example, twenty parents had committed to be at Lexington (above), but only two showed up that day. (Hmm...even David Parker didn't show up, things must be bad!)

Bob Parks, former candidate for State Representative, who also ran for Chairman of the State Republican Party, went on the MassResistance radio show describing how he was going to make a speech at a high school as a Day of Defiance protester. He also agreed to send out press releases. But as the day approached, he suddenly backed out. (Maybe Massresistance can get CJ Doyle to come back on and tell us what really happened since he's such a regular on the radio show)

The whole debacle just sounds a lot like the typical Article 8/Massresistance/Brian Camenker sideshow that Massachusetts is so used to seeing from the crazies in Waltham. The "parents" who supposedly went to these school to incite pandemonium were so proud of their work that they list themselves as Bruce C. or Roger S. (I guess they go to the Amy "from Article 8" school of last names).

They must be heartbroken that no local news station picked up their antics although I expect the pictures will turn up on some crazy right wing site (I hope there's video too because I got such a rush off the dizzying "acid trip" video of the Vote on Marriage Protest they recently posted)

I'm anxiously awaiting May 17th too. If history is any indicator, Massresistance will have some "big" announcement about something that happened to somebody months ago yet they will twist and bend the story to make it appear like it happened yesterday and of course blame it all on the gays.

Kentucky, Unbridled Spirit: To Discriminate?

News from Kentucky:

Gov. Ernie Fletcher said he doesn't expect to call a special session of the General Assembly until after the May 22 primary election and confirmed that he's considering asking lawmakers to block public universities from offering domestic partner benefits to employees.

It seems those darn public universities want to offer domestic partner benefits to its unmarried opposite sex couples and "can't ever get married because we put it in the constitution" same sex couples. The university says they only wants to attract the best and the brightest (who wants to move to a state where they discriminate against a minority?) They want your tourism dollars though.

Even though Kentucky passed that ban on equal marriage that wasn't enough. It appears they want to make sure that any couple that can get married does and any couple banned from marriages gets no benefits EVER.

Fletcher said he is receiving "push-back" from Kentuckians who voted for a constitutional amendment in 2004 banning same-sex marriage. Gay and lesbian couples would benefit from domestic partnership benefits.

"At this point, yes, I don't support domestic partnership benefits for this reason: We're taking tax dollars from citizens who voted and said they don't support same-sex marriage and putting that into benefits that could be used to hold down tuition costs and other things," Fletcher said. "We're getting a lot of push-back from the citizens across the commonwealth."

Note to the Massachusetts Legislators: When these groups, such as the Vote on Marriage people, claim that it's about marriage, DON'T BELIEVE THEM. It's really about stripping every possible protection away from gay couples. They talk a kind and civil game but in reality they just want us gone.

AmericanBlog has a great summary:

I do find it amazing that the religious right claimed that these anti-gay state constitutional amendments (and the federal one) would have no impact on anything else other than gay marriage. Now we're finding out otherwise, from the horses' own mouths. Now they're telling us that when the states banned gay marriage they also banned providing health insurance, inheritance, hospital visitation and more to gay couples. Funny, but I don't recall hearing any of that when the religious right was pushing these things. Of course, we also know from Ohio that these state amendments have also outlawed domestic violence laws. I'm not kidding. Women who have been abused by their boyfriends, fiancees, etc., can now no longer seek the protection of domestic violence laws because in Ohio you can't be given rights unless you're married. Now we're talking targeting straight women who are victims of violence.

Be afraid, be very afraid.

Day of Silence

Massachusetts Institute Against Gays

The editor of Bay Windows wrote a very poignant piece last week about the Massachusetts "Family" Institute (MFI). As an aside, I have always listed them with Family in quotes because MFI does not care about the family however, Susan Ryan-Vollmar has hit the nail on the head:

Honestly, what is the Massachusetts Family Institute doing for families in Massachusetts? If you click on the “Issues in Focus” link on the MFI website, you’ll get their 10 priorities for “strengthening the family”: dealing with child abuse, cohabitation, gambling, pornography, media violence, Internet safety and statutory rape; promoting marriage; strengthening parental rights; and fighting same-sex marriage. MFI, remarkably, manages to blame LGBT people as the cause — either directly or indirectly — of at least five of their issues: child abuse, cohabitation, pornography, strengthening parental rights and, of course, same-sex marriage. It’s remarkable that a political movement claiming to care about families and children spends more time and talent demonizing LGBT people than actually working for families and children.

Her last paragraph inspired me to change the link to them (and all future references to them):

There’s no question that families with children, particularly those at lower-income levels, need strong advocates working for them. Access to quality health care, child care and public education are crucial issues facing us all. Given what little work the Massachusetts Family Institute does in this regard, maybe they should change their name. The Massachusetts Institute Against Gays seems fitting.

Courting Equality

There's a wonderful new book out called "Courting Equality". It's by Patricia A. Gozemba (Author), Karen Kahn (Author), Marilyn Humphries (Photographer). My husband and I looked through the book this past weekend at the Now Voyager bookstore on Commercial St in Provincetown. I didn't even think copies were available yet!

Browsing through the book brought back some beautiful memories of the struggle we've gone through here in Massachusetts. Some of the pictures even brought back the painful memories of those groups out there who hate us simply because of who we are. I got misty when I found a picture of my husband and myself at one of the Constitutional conventions. (We were both shouting and crying over the defeat of the anti-gay Phil Travis amendment.) We felt really proud to be featured alongside our brothers and sisters in the fight for full equality.

Check out the events page on the website for places where the authors and photographer will be signing books. There will be a special book signing at the Cambridge YWCA on May 16th on the eve of the 3rd anniversary of the Equal Marriage:

May 16, 6:30-8:30 pm, Cambridge YWCA, Hannum Hall, 7 Temple Street (Central Square, one block from Mass. Ave.), Cambridge, MA. Launch of Courting Equality! Meet the photographer, authors, and people in the book. Have them sign your copy. Books will be for sale at the event.

See slides from Courting Equality telling the story of the MA achievement in bringing justice for all. Featured guests Mary Bonauto of GLAD, lead attorney in the Goodridge case, the Goodridge plaintiffs, and MA legislators. Celebrate with wedding cake! Special thanks to Carol Rose, Executive Director of the ACLU-MA.

Sponsored by the ACLU-MA, the Center for New Words, Beacon Press, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders, MassEquality, Parents and Friends of Lesbians And Gays, Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry, the Mass Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, Freedom to Mary Coalition of MA, The History Project: Documenting LGBT Boston and our media sponsor Bay Windows.

I've also provided a link at the left to the "Courting Equality" website

From Gay Sex to Romney

It must be a slow news day. Well, it's either that or the Boston Globe REALLY hates the absentee ex-Governor Willard Romney. If you didn't see the Globe's front page, it's precious! A story on Massachusetts' most infamous homophobe, Brian Camenker.

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you'll get a big kick out of this quote by Camenker (talking about Romney):

"Oh, man, this is really a riot," Camenker said. "It's adolescent for him to react that way -- the guy is running for president of the United States."

To you new readers, the inside joke is that the only two words Brian Camenker says more than "homosexual activists" is "Oh, man". His sad, pathetic show on Saturday mornings is full of "Oh, Man's" and now he's even quoted in the paper as saying it. I made up a Massresistance Drinking Game because of it. (See the last bullet in my September 2, 2006 post.)

As for the rest of the article, there's really not that much new, except to learn that Brian was working on the "Romney files" in the wee hours of the morning. Oh, yeah, and that Brian is obsessed with gay sex, but again, if you're a regular reader you already know that (is Romney his new obsession? Say what you will about his politics but Romney is good looking)

Some conservatives say Camenker's report, spiked with references to gay sex, has seriously damaged Romney's effort to woo conservative voters. Others dismiss the report as a joke. But Romney is not laughing. Earlier this month, he fired back with a press release titled "Meet the Real Brian Camenker," which includes quotes from Camenker saying he was once a social liberal and a link to Camenker's appearance on "The Daily Show," where he was mocked by the comedian Ed Helms.

The Globe only makes it's articles available for a few days so be sure to read it before it will cost you. It's not worth paying to read when you can learn about his crazy antics on this blog for free.

The Other Idiot In Worcester

With all the talk about the President of the Massachusetts Catholic Citizenship assaulting a defenseless woman everyone is overlooking the other speakers at the anti-gay rally. Because in addition to the physical assault by Larry Cirignano, it appears that one of the other anti-gay speakers is losing his memory:

As the final speaker of the afternoon, Mr. Flynn said same-sex marriage opponents had not wanted to take the matter into court, but were left with no other options when the Legislature voted to recess its Constitutional Convention last month rather than vote on whether to put the proposed amendment on the November 2008 ballot.

“My heavens,” he said of the vote to recess. “Folks, I have never heard or seen anything like this in the history of Massachusetts.”

Uh, Mr. Flynn, have you forgotten about when the voters got enough signatures to put a woman's right to choose in the Constitution in 1990 and people like you got the legislature to adjourn before taking a vote? I didn't think so, you were only the mayor of Boston at the time. Maybe those years are a blur?

BTW, Mr. Mayor do you approve of Larry Cirignano's physical assault on a woman?

Anti-Gay Marriage Male Attacks Marriage Equality Female

You knew it would come to this. Larry Cirignano, the leader of the Catholic Citizenship group physically attacked a woman who was carrying a sign asking for no discrimination in the Constitution yesterday in Worcester. The Worcester Telegram reports:

Sarah Loy, 27, of Worcester was holding a sign in defense of same-sex marriage amid a sea of green “Let the People Vote” signs when Larry Cirignano of Canton, who heads the Catholic Citizenship group, ran into the crowd, grabbed her by both shoulders and told her, “You need to get out. You need to get out of here right now.” Mr. Cirignano then pushed her to the ground, her head slamming against the concrete sidewalk.

And then in true fashion, he continued acting like the true coward he is:

As Ms. Loy lay motionless on the ground, crying, Mr. Cirignano ran back behind the lectern, where moments before he had opened the afternoon rally by leading a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance.

These people hate gay people and their supporters so much that they resort to violence. If you want to see a picture of the guy that attacked a woman go here. I bet the Cardinal is so proud.

Update: Here is the information for the Catholic Citizenship. I think we need to ask them if this is how Larry treats all women.

Catholic Citizenship

198 Tremont Street Suite 450

Boston, MA 02116-4705

Tel. 617-755-7668 Fax 617-507-8263

Email:info@catholicvote.org

A Challenge Grant for Challenged People

If you happen to mosey over to Massresistance aka Article 8 aka Parent's Right Coalition aka etc... you'll see that they're in fundraising mode again:

=== 3. MassResistance offered $30,000 matching challenge grant - can we do it by Dec. 31? ===
One of the attendees of the MassResistance banquet has offered us a $30,000 matching grant! To get the money, we must match it with individual donations of $100 or more!The good news is that we're now over a third of the way there!! Yes, just by word of mouth we've raised $10,295 toward that goal! But we can't let up. (And we really should raise even more than that - a lot more!)

Please help us reach this goal!! It's people like you who keep this going.

www.parentsrightscoalition.org/massresistance_donations.htm

I happened to get deja vu when I was reading it and then I looked back into my posts and found this from last year:

I guess the "anonymous" donor couldn't ante up the $50,000 this year. They also seemed to have lowered the amount of the donations that will contribute to the "Challenge Grant" from $250 to $100. I guess their supporters are feeling the pinch.



Some people are also wondering if there even is an "anonymous" donor since Massresistance/Article 8 never names him or her. Don't you think they would want to be recognized for all the "good work" they're doing?


BTW, you don't hear much talk from them about "Removing the Judges" anymore. They only have less than one month left for their boy Emile Goguen to reprise his ridiculous claim.


Could that be the reason they changed their name from Article 8? I guess they were just losers from the beginning.