Maggie Gallagher Meets St. Peter

However, you could just as well substitute any of the anti-gay zealots for Maggie Gallagher.

MassResistance Has Another Success!

MassResistance, always eager to tout their own brilliance and intellect, has another success to add to their list: Marriage Equality in New York State:

ALBANY, N.Y. — Lawmakers voted late yesterday to legalize same-sex marriage, making New York the largest state where gay and lesbian couples will be able to wed and giving the national gay-rights movement new momentum from the state where it was born.

The pictures of New York remind me to those days (and nights) at the State House here in Massachusetts. The anti-gay side, like in Massachusetts, tried anything to keep the State discriminating against gay and lesbian couples. In the days leading up to the vote there were large groups of people "praying" it wouldn't come to pass. So I guess God spoke and said NO. They even trotted out the "ex-gays" to sidetrack it and it didn't work.

But here in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, we can all look to MassResistance and thank them for doing their part. They were in the trenches working with the rightest of the anti-gay right doing their thing:

The legislative session is scheduled to end on Monday, but as reported above, the Governor and his liberal allies will likely extend it for this bill. We are in close contact with "pro-family" advocates and will keep you updated on this. Also see our special
MassResistance page on the New York marriage battle, which we plan to update frequently until the session ends..

And surprise, surprise, when you click on the link there is no mention of the fact that they lost and marriage equality is the law in New York. MassResistance: always full of promises and never delivers.

I am reminded of Brian Camenker's appearance on the Daily Show when he seriously stated that given enough time he could link marriage equality with decreased quality of life, homelessness, air quality and crime rates only now it's becoming clear that in every successful step toward Marriage Equality, MassResistance has been in close contact with the anti-gay groups. As he said in a Boston Globe article about his appearance on the show:

Camenker said that while his argument against gay marriage may not have been convincing in the footage that was aired, he may have changed some hearts and minds among the ''25-year-olds from New York City who naturally are all pro gay marriage."

''They were moved by what I said about the subject," Camenker said. ''They didn't use 99 percent of my stuff. But the arguments I said, you could tell they were visibly moved, and that I was saying things they hadn't heard before."

Yes Brian, you changed MANY hearts in New York. Once again, keep up the good work!

MassResistance's Hands are all over New York

MassResistance is claiming to be in the middle of the marriage equality battle in New York State:

A Senate vote is expected to take place today or Friday. We've been in constant contact with key Orthodox Jewish activists, who have used our MassResistance material on "What Same-Sex 'Marriage' did to Massachusetts" in State House lobbyng. Can our side hold the line?

Of course MassResistance is still pulling out all the stops with the scare tactics about marriage equality, of course there no mention of Massachusetts having the lowest divorce rate in the country. One of the lies they're touting:

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.

If you click on the first link it's about the book "Who's in a family" and talks about all different types of families, no mention of marriages in this book. Then they bring up Mad Dad David Parker who held up in an elementary school knowing full well that if he didn't leave he would be arrest, Parker LOVES to play the martyr.

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.

MassResistance LOVES the quotation marks. They want same sex married couples to hide in the closet. Wants the teachers to lie to their students about their marriages and wants them to be second class citizens by not allowing them to talk about their families, that's right, their LEGAL families. Oh the horrors!

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.

Another lie, no one has been arrested or will be. Where do they get this shit?

Their list goes on and on with one ridiculous accusation after another and of course, ends with how these marriages are not really legal (did Brian Camenker or Amy Contrada ever go to law school?

The only thing that's changed in Massachusetts since marriage equality went into effect is that MassResistance is now labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for their attacks on the LGBT community. They never had crediblity but they never lost that, except that now the right wing fringe lunatics picked up their rants and post them in obscure part of the country.

What did Same Sex Marriage do to Massachusetts? Make Brian Camenker a laughing stock across the country.

Swimming Pool - Straights Only

This news sickens me:

Activists in Kentucky are planning a peaceful response after two gay men with developmental and intellectual disabilities were kicked out of a public pool.

A maintenance technician reportedly cited the Bible while telling the two men they couldn't swim at The Pavilion, a government-funded recreational facility in Hazard, Kentucky.

"We own this place and can tell you to leave if we want to," the couple was told, according to the Kentucky Equality Foundation

"The Pavilion staff immediately entered the pool area and asked my clients and their staff to leave the Pavilion," Mending Hearts Executive Director Shirlyn Perkins recalled. "My staff asked The Pavilion staff why they were being asked to leave, and they were informed that 'gay people' weren't allowed to swim there."

The scary thing is that it is probably legal to discriminate against gay people in Kentucky even if you pay taxes because I do not believe Kentucky has a law banning discrimination against LGBT citizens.

Red Sox to Produce "It Gets Better" Video

This is wonderful news:

"The Red Sox organization takes the issue of bullying seriously," team spokeswoman Leah Tobin released in a statement. "It is something that has touched many of us and those we love, and it is a growing problem in our community. We are proud of dedicated Red Sox fans like 12-year-old Sam Maden who have taken the courageous step of publicly standing up against bullying of LGBT youth."

I wonder how long it will take until MassResistance starts vilifying 12 -year old Sam Maden?

Macy's and Pride

As June descends upon us tomorrow, I'm reminded of that Pride, not so many years ago when MassResistance complained to Macy's because of their transgender mannequins...yes, they said Macy's had transgendered mannequins and even took pictures of other mannequins in the store to compare and contrast. Macy's caved and gave into the crazy group only to find out how really crazy they really were and faced a HUGE backlash. Macy's made up for their faux pas and has continually supposed the LGBT community. This was more than evident in the ad below which I found in Out Magazine:

Of course, MassResistance wouldn't dare suggesting a boycott because they are powerless. No one even cares what they have to say anymore.

UPDATE: I was wrong, MassResistance IS suggesting another boycott because Old Navy is selling T-shirts celebrating LGBT Pride:

FIGHT BACK!

Old Navy REALLY needs to hear from as many of you as possible. It won't take you long, but will be effective. Let them know you will NEVER shop in their stores EVER, and you will spread the word.

Contact Old Navy NOW:

Website: www.oldnavy.com

Phone: 1-800-OLD-NAVY (1-800-653-6289)

Email: custserv@oldnavy.com

Hey Old Navy! Call Macy's and ask them how MassResistance's boycott worked out. LOL

MassResistance Takes Credit for the Sun Rising and Adds Another Success?

Well, it's possible, you see MassResistance is now taking credit for Kevin Jennings leaving his job in the Department of Education in JULY. Of course he was bound to leave his post at some point and since many people in the first term of an administration leave before their term is up, forget that! MassResistance is taking credit because their "online petition" was, I don't know, ONLY STARTED 18 MONTHS ago!

Over the past eighteen months MassResistance has waged a battle in get Congress either to have Jennings' office defunded, or have him removed. We compiled and posted a large report of Jennings' activities going back decades-- most of which MassResistance uncovered. In addition we've gathered over ten thousand signatures from across America on our online petition. And we've been communicating with various key Congressmen and their staffs, as well as other Washington DC insiders, to push this as hard as possible...

...THANK YOU to everyone across the country who signed our petition and who helped get the word out. Getting Kevin Jennings out of the Dept. of Education is a great victory for all Americans!

And who do you think is picking up their story? Why all the crazy "pro-family" "news" on the web:

• World Nut Daily
• The Right Side News (really?)

I wonder what MassResistance will claim credit for now? They never even got those signatures that they said they were definitely going to get to overturn the 1913 law in Massachusetts and I believe they're still claiming they're going to be back on the radio some time soon...yeah, right!

Focus on the Family - Losing on Marriage

The new head of the Focus on the Family, Jim Daly, had this to say about same sex marriage:

We're losing on that one, especially among the 20- and 30-somethings: 65 to 70 percent of them favor same-sex marriage. I don't know if that's going to change with a little more age—demographers would say probably not. We've probably lost that. I don't want to be extremist here, but I think we need to start calculating where we are in the culture.

So some of the anti-gay right are finally starting to see the writing the wall. In the article he also talks about getting their own marriages in order before they start attacking others. This also makes perfect sense especially for all those people claiming to "defend marriage" while divorcing like crazy, cheating on their spouses and trying to tear apart other families.

It's the End of the World as We Know It

Yep! According to a "pro-family" organization like MassResistance, the World is going to end on May 21, 2011, oh, at 6 PM:

Harold Camping, the 89-year-old Christian evangelist from Oakland, Calif., whose Family Radio broadcasts are heard in 61 languages, doesn't just think that Judgment Day will come Saturday. He guarantees it.

"It is absolutely going to happen," said Camping, who has determined after five decades of studying Scripture that May 21 marks the beginning of the end. "We do not have a Plan B at all. There is no possibility that it will not happen, because all of our information comes from the Bible.

People are going to be risen and the heathens will be left on earth to deal with earthquakes and explosions that will last until the final doomsday sometime in the fall. Wouldn't you think God would want to get it over and done with all at the same time? Hasn't God heard of multi-tasking, you know, raise up the Christians and abolish the rest of the earth all at the same time because apparently, according to Camping, God is doing it by time zones, so no lines no waiting at the gates of Heaven.

All this news reminds me of the episode of "6 Feet Under" when some guys filled blow up dolls with helium and then released them. When a "Christian" saw the dolls going up into the air she ran towards them to be risen and was hit by a car and killed. I guess she got her wish!

Sex Abuse Crisis DECREASED as Gay Priests Began Serving

A study commissioned by the Catholic Church concluded:

The sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church was caused by the influence of sweeping social changes and increasing “deviant behavior’’ of the 1960s and 1970s on priests who were inadequately trained, emotionally unprepared, and isolated, according to a new report commissioned by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops.

Researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, who spent five years conducting the most expensive and extensive study of sexual abuse in the Catholic church to date, concluded that homosexual priests were no more likely to abuse than heterosexual priests.

If you recall Santorum and the anti-gay loonies were blaming gay priests for all the molestation when it appears that:

The report notes that homosexual men began entering the seminaries “in noticeable numbers” from the late 1970s through the 1980s. By the time this cohort entered the priesthood, in the mid-1980s, the reports of sexual abuse of minors by priests began to drop and then to level off. If anything, the report says, the abuse decreased as more gay priests began serving the church.

Another MassResistance Candidate Goes Down in Flames

Last week MassResistance was practically falling over themselves for "the real thing":

Candidate Jim Dixon, a Republican, is the real thing -- we can't stress that enough. He's a true conservative, a Tea Party guy, a solid Catholic, and very smart. He's also a Navy veteran and a commercial pilot. You can find out more about him at his campaign website. Getting a guy like him in the Legislature would be wonderful. He will help change Massachusetts back to normal.

Of course, MassResistance has NO IDEA was normal even is! Well, this Tea Partier got beat by a truly normal guy:

According to results released by Waltham City Clerk Russ Malone, Lawn won Waltham by a 987-624 margin, a difference of roughly 22 percent. In Newton, Lawn edged Dixon 374-145, taking about 72 percent of that city's vote. And in his hometown of Watertown, Lawn earned a whopping 82 percent of the vote, besting Dixon 453-99.

Massachusetts needs MassResistance to keep vouching for candidates then we all win!

Luckily MassResistance still has the Article 8 domain!

Well, Massachusetts has a new person on Mass Supreme Judicial Court, she's a woman, a mother and just happens to be a lesbian and is MassResistance is having a conniption fit!

First it started with all their anti-gay testimony at the hearing for the new justice. Me thinks Brian Camenker is probably more upset that Sally Naumann is getting more press than his ridiculous rant trying to link Lenk to the "Falsettos" production in Concord (Remember, if given enough time he can link gay marriage to bad air quality, homelessness and any other myriad of issues plaguing Massachusetts)

Sally Naumann is probably best remembered for her "testimony" at the State House when she wanted the legislators to know that gay people were responsible for the Holocaust and waved her copy of the Pink Swastika at them. Then she wanted the Concord town to admonish the school for producing "Falsettos", we know how that turned out.

Now she's writing into the Boston Globe claiming to speak for the other bigots in Massachusetts who have yet to show their face or raise their voices:

THE GLOBE’S elitist and condescending editorial condemning my testimony at the Barbara Lenk hearing was certainly predictable (“Decision on Lenk should focus on her record, not her sexuality,’’ April 29). But I speak for countless parents across the Commonwealth. And, yes, the Governor’s Council needed to hear it.

Parents are sick and tired of the homosexual indoctrination process in the public schools, which now reaches into kindergarten with homosexual-themed story books and into middle schools with the setting up of gay-straight alliance clubs.

Lenk’s elevation to the Supreme Judicial Court would only serve to accelerate the homosexual indoctrination. Lenk prominently appeared in the homosexual-themed magazine Boston Spirit as an “openly gay’’ judge who was described as helping to “create a shift in the culture.’’ Her same-sex marriage reinforces a right invented by activist judges repudiating thousands of years of Western culture. She will be used as a new role model for schoolchildren, and we can expect more anti-family judicial activism down the road.

I testified before the council that the notion that one is born gay is a myth. But the Globe’s editorial assertion that homosexual behavior is like being black or Asian has become the party line.

We need less of this nonsense, not more of it.

How bonkers is that? It's horrible that Lenk was in a gay business magazine! HORRORS! I guess Sally thinks Lenk should be ashamed of herself and keep silent, sorry Sally, it ain't happening and is never going to happen, ever hear of Stonewall?

As for Brian, well, he still gets carried in some off beat online papers across the country like WorldNutDaily and Dakota Voice who still call him a "pro-family" activist, yeah, that IS good for a laugh. His credibility here (did he even ever have any?) is gone and he needs to rely on his small group of anti-gay activists to spout his drivel. His name will always be linked to anti-gay screeds and conspiracy theories how sad is that for a legacy?

This from the Liberty Council

People are celebrating today because the mastermind of the 9/11 bombings was finally defeated. Of course, for the anti-gay zealots like Matt Barber, all they ever think about is sex, (funny how all the "straight" anti-gay people are always thinking about gay sex)

Concord Town Meeting Applauds "Falsettos"

In an earlier post, I mentioned how MassResistance was trying to rally people in Concord to condemn the production of the play "Falsettos" which was held in 2009. An MassResistance supporter and anti-gay activist petitioned the Town to condemn the production, well, the Town Meeting was held last night:

Concord — Town Meeting saw no surprises its first night with little debate on all articles except the last of the night, Article 31: the anticipated controversy that urged residents to condemn the 2009 fall play “Falsettos” for its use of public funds and defamation of Jews.

But even those engaged in debate decided they had heard enough. Discussion was quickly quelled by an overwhelming majority in support of an opposing amendment to the original article, which instead commended the School Committee and school employees for their work to foster “responsible citizenship” and “to create opportunities for critical thought.”

However, the crazies were still out (Article 31 was the anti-gay petition to condemn the play, the school, the teachers involved, heck, it appears to target everyone):

“The choice is simple,” she added. “If you vote ‘yes’ to Article 31, you support health, piety, chastity and most of all life. If you choose to vote ‘no,’ as the Board of Selectmen, the School Committee and the Finance Committee
are prepared to do, then you support disease, anti-Semitism, debauchery and
death. Death to our town’s children."

But the people spoke:

Petitioner Jim Smith, with his son Arthur — a 2006 CCHS alum — posed the amendment to the article. They argued that a simple vote was not enough.

“We are concerned that merely voting ‘no’ does not sufficiently address what we believe to be the larger issue,” said Smith. “Whether sustained criticism, even by a few, will have a chilling affect on the abilities of our schools to teach, debate, discuss and even produce important literary works that examine complex and complicated social issues.”

snip

The amendment to Article 31 passed nearly unanimously, and came to a close with lines still at the podium in favor of the amendment.

A shot heard round the world indeed. Can't wait to read how MassResistance tries to spin this one although I'm sure there is a conspiracy theory involved somewhere.

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Tony Award Winning Play is MassResistance's Target

Forever trying to create controversy where it doesn't exist, MassResistance is highlighting the actions of one closed minded individual to get the Concord School System to condemn a high school production of "Falsettos!" In case you hadn't heard about "Falsettos!" it received the following awards/nominations:

• Tony Award for Best Musical(nominee)
• Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical (winner)
• Tony Award for Best Original Score (winner)
• Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (Rupert, nominee)
• Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Kaplan, nominee)
• Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Walsh, nominee)
• Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical (nominee)
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical (Walsh, winner)
• Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Revival (nominee)
• Theatre World Award (Kaplan, winner)

Yet this same award winning play is listed as "a vulgar and disgusting" on MassResistance's website. What's most astounding is that they call the play anti-Semitic which is astounding since the main theme of the play is readying the lead character's son for his bar mitzvah. The one reason they have a problem with this play is because the lead character comes out and leaves his wife for a man, plain and simply. They do not want anyone showing gay characters in a positive light.

They even have a video on their site which cuts and pastes pieces of the production so everything is out of context, not to mention illegal because 1) they videotaped a copyrighted production and 2) they videotaped children without their parents consent. The later is not surprising since that is what MassResistance is known for in the past.

MassResistance even questions a group's "Jewishness":

But just how "Jewish" is Temple Kerem Shalom? According to its website, it has no affiliation with any branch of Judaism and it enthusiastically supports the homosexual movement and other fashionable left-wing nonsense. In other words, their real "religion" is liberalism. They are to Judaism what a ham and cheese sandwich is to a Kosher diet. This kinds of temple usually attracts disaffected liberal Jews, much the way radical churches attract disaffected Christians. It's an embarrassment.

Again, not surprising since they believe everyone is supposed to condemn people who are gay just like them. Oh, and of course, they NEVER even saw the play!

Update: The woman who is complaining about the play also complained in 2007 when the high school put on the "Laramie Project"

Anti-Bullying Video from Ireland

I saw this anti-bullying video on Slate.com, it's really moving:

Scott Lively's Back in the Anti-Gay Saddle Again

It was only a short two months ago when Scott Lively was trying to reinvent himself with a puff piece in the Boston Globe, remember:

But Scott Lively says he is toning down his antigay rhetoric and shifting his focus to helping the downtrodden. And he’s found a home and a receptive audience in this struggling city where many, but not all, have embraced his mission to “re-Christianize Springfield.’’

That was before people learned that he had hired a convicted pedophile to "volunteer" at his coffee house which was catering to school children.

Then his "Abiding Truth Ministries" gets named a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center along with his comrades over at MassResistance.

Now, according to Joe.My.God, Lively is back with the anti-gay propaganda. How'd that helping the downtrodden work out for ya Scott? Scott Lively, the "Christian" jumped back on the anti-gay bandwagon like he did in Uganda:

When the Moldovan government submitted a draft antidiscrimination law to parliament last month, conservative Orthodox Christian forces in the country
treated it as a call to battle.

And that call was heeded by U.S. pastor and lawyer Scott Lively, who traveled to Chisinau to warn the country against adopting any measure that would bar discrimination against homosexuals.

Marian adds that Lively "explicitly told us that this bill is just the beginning, and later homosexuals will be given rights, starting with the right to hold public demonstrations.

"Since Lively's visit, Pro Familia has created an online "black list" of Moldovan public figures who support gay rights. The list includes several parliament members and the head of state television. People who appear on the list can have their names removed by submitting a written statement opposing the antidiscrimination measure.

Can you say intimidation? Yet Scott Lively claims he had nothing to do with the vicious anti-gay attacks and murders that took place in Uganda after he testified there too.

Ms. MassResistance Herself Has a Book on Amazon!

Yup, Amy Contrada's book "Mitt Romney's Deception" can be brought electronically via Amazon's website. Funny enough, the MassResistance blog touts it as "A Hard Hitting Book on Mitt Romney's Pro-Homosexual Record while Governor of Massachusetts". I'm guessing she

leaves all the supposed meeting MassResistance had with Governor Romney?

The only thing funnier that this BS on Amazon.com are the four "reviews". One is from Linda Harvey (enough said), two are 5 stars and one is obviously from a Mitt Romney supporter. Amy even gets into the review act by commenting on the Romney supporters' review. Too funny.

I can't figure out why anyone would buy this drivel when you can head over to the anti-gay hate group's website and read it online there.

Amy even has her own website with a picture of a drag queen as retired Chief

justice of the Massachusetts SJC!

UPDATE March 14: The link to the Amazon page with the "Mitt Romney Deception" has been removed and the "book" is now on another page without any reviews...interesting...I wonder what happened? I wonder how many people found out that Amy was commenting on her own reviews?

Before:

Now:

MassResistance Does it Again!!

For the 4th year in a row MassResistance has been named an Anti-Gay Hate Group by the Southern Poverty Law Center:

The religious right in America has employed a variety of strategies in its efforts to beat back the increasingly confident gay rights movement. One of those has been defamation. Many of its leaders have engaged in the crudest type of name-calling, describing LGBT people as "perverts" with "filthy habits" who seek to snatch the children of straight parents and "convert" them to gay sex. They have disseminated disparaging "facts" about gays that are simply untrue — assertions that are

remarkably reminiscent of the way white intellectuals and scientists once wrote about the "bestial" black man and his supposedly threatening sexuality.

It appears that MassResistance's work "on the front lines" with the anti-gay groups in Maryland is helping marriage equality in THAT state too!. Great job Brian!

Sadly, they are not the only anti-gay hate group in Massachusetts. Scott Lively's Abiding Truth Ministries in Springfield is also on the list. Abiding Truth Ministries is the "religious" group that had a convicted pedophile "volunteering" at the coffee shop that caters to school children.