'Impressive' List of Gay Marriage Supporters Isn't Impressive, It's Sad

MassNews Staff
November 18, 2002

GLAD, the group that's trying to impose gay marriage on Massachusetts, has announced that 88 law professors and 67 organizations are supporting their lawsuit. But a quick glance shows that this just more hype on the part of these Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders.

The truth was revealed in a Bay Windows editorial in August which said that many in the movement were disappointed to discover that homosexuals activists really are not interested in marriage. They showed that it is the extreme feminists who are pushing the effort for gay marriage. The feminists are doing so because they believe that the institution of marriage is damaging to women and therefore they wish to diminish it as an institution in any way possible.

For example, the 88 professors are drawn from around the entire world. There are only 21 listed from the 8 schools in Massachusetts. This is not an impressive showing. In fact, it is downright embarrassing.
Northeastern University School of Law (3)
Suffolk University Law School (5)
Boston University School of Law (4)
Boston College Law School (2)
Western New England College School of Law (3)
New England School of Law (1)
Harvard University (2)
Harvard Law School (1).

The 67 organizations that favor gay marriage are the usual suspects. They come from extreme feminist organizations and homosexual activist groups. They are the same old ones who have been battling the Protection of Marriage Amendment, sometimes fairly and sometimes unfairly, sometimes legally and sometimes not.

They include at least 27 groups of homosexual activists. Many of these groups are very obscure and it is difficult to tell for sure if they are homosexual organizations, but unless they are definitely homosexual, they are not counted as a part of this list of 27 groups.
LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund
National Center for Lesbian Rights
DignityUSA
Dignity Boston
Keshet
Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry
Coalition gaie et lesbienne du Quebec
EGALE Canada, Inc.
ILGA
ILGA-Europe
ILGA-North America
International Lesbian and Gay Law Ass'n
Japan Ass'n for the Lesbian & Gay Movement
Lesbian & Gay Equality Project
Lesbian & Gay Legal Equality
Pink Cross
Rechtskomitee
Freedom to Marry Coalition
Freedom to Marry Foundation
The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Alliance of Western MA
The MA Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus
Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom
Freedom to Marry Collaborative
Human Rights Campaign
National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
PridePlanners Ass'n

There is a small number of the usual list of "churches" which include goddesses and pagans and the omnipresent Unitarians.
Unitarian Universalist Ass'n
Unitarian Universalist Ministers Ass'n MA Bay District Chapter
United Church of Christ Coalition of LGBT Concerns
United Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (a homosexual organization)
Covenant of the Goddess
Church of the Sacred Earth: A Union of Pagan Congregations

There are 8 feminist groups.
Women's Bar Ass'n of MA
MA NOW
MA Black Women Attorneys
National Ass'n of Women Lawyers
National Organization for Women Foundation, Inc.
Northwest Women's Law Center
NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Council of Jewish Women

There are 4 human rights organizations.
Federation internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme
Human Rights Watch
Inter-American Center for Human Rights
Interights

There are 7 social science/therapy groups.
MA Psychiatric Society
American Psychoanalytic Ass'n
National Ass'n of Social Workers
MA Chapter of the National Ass'n of Social Workers
Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Inc.
MA Ass'n for Psychoanalytic Psychology
The Gottman Institute

This leaves the ACLU, which has played dirty and violated the Constitutional rights of the supporters of the Protection of Marriage Amendment many times in the last year.
American Civil Liberties Union of MA
ACLU Foundation

Other feminist/liberal organizations who are friends of the ACLU.
Urban League of Eastern MA
National Lawyers Guild, MA Chapter
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Ass'n
Greater Boston Civil Rights Coalition
Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston
People for the American Way Foundation

The obscure groups are the following.
Asian American Legal Defense & Educational Fund
Community Change, Inc.
Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund
National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium
Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund
Jewish Alliance for Law & Social Action
The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation

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