GLAD' Deposing Parents Again Tuesday Feb 4th

'GLAD' Deposing Parents Again Tuesday Feb 4th
After Three Years Powerful Gay Legal Group Keeps Pressure On
MassNews Staff
February 3, 2002

On February 4, 'GLAD', will be deposing Brian Camenker in a day-long session, at their offices in Boston.

Three years after exposing a state-sponsored gay workshop with children, Brian Camenker and Scott Whiteman are running up huge legal expenses fending off a barrage of legal actions. Glad (the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders) is a publicly funded legal group and has been pursuing lawsuits against the men for taping, exposing, and publicizing a publicly funded workshop that involved state Department of Education employees and children as young as 14.

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The workshop - that has come to be known as "Fistgate" - was state sponsored and featured educators and "consultants' coaching young teens to engage in risky homosexual behavior. Two state employees were fired after much media coverage and local and national outrage.

But only in Massachusetts could this happen to parents. The nationally funded legal arm of the homosexual movement in New England has 5 full time lawyers and non-profit status. Gay activists have said that their intention is to "punish" these parents and set an example for others. They are attempting to use an obscure section of the Massachusetts wiretapping statute to prove that the privacy rights of the participants were violated, and are suing for damages and possible criminal prosecution.

The case has been dragging out since the summer of 2000, The cost of defending it has reached well over $100,000. Famed attorney Chester Darling, who has won 9-0 before the US Supreme Court in a similar case, is heading up the defense team. But funds are very low and his firm is having difficulty keeping up with the huge amount of motions in the case being filed by the gay activist law group.

"But if we give up, and lose this, then it will send a clear message that this can succeed against any parent," said Camenker. "And the intimidation around the country will be stepped up several notches."