May 18th, 2004, 9:01 a.m.

Over 150 Demonstrated Yesterday at Boston City Hall
   Over 150 people demonstrated yesterday outside Boston City Hall demanding the removal of the "dirty four judges" who are attempting to force homosexual "marriage" upon the state of Massachusetts.
  These "rogue judges" have no power to do what they are attempting, Brian Camenker and others told reporters and cameramen from all over the world who flocked around. Even the local television stations were forced to remove the blanket-of-silence they have imposed over the tens of thousands of outraged citizens who are demanding that the judges be removed by the Bill of Address which has been filed in the legislature by Rep. Emile Goguen (D-Fitchburg).
   Camenker pointed out it isn't "kooks" who say that Margaret Marshall and the other three judges are acting illegally. The ones who say that are the three judges who refused to go along with Marshall's scheme and who disagree strongly with her and her three compatriots. They are ready to assume their responsibilities when the "dirty four" are removed, said Camenker.
  The three dissenters wrote in their opinions on Nov. 18 last year that: "The power to regulate marriage lies with the Legislature, not the judiciary," and "The Legislature is the appropriate branch, both constitutionally and practically, to consider and respond to same-sex marriage." The trial judge who first heard the case said the same thing, but the plaintiff's lawyer, Mary Bonauto, appealed to her friend, Margaret Marshall, at the SJC.
   John Diggs, Jr., a black medical doctor from South Hadley, also addressed the crowd and drew cheers, including those from the many blacks in attendance, when he said that this is not a civil rights issue and that most blacks resent any implication that they are in any way comparable to homosexuals.
  He wondered who decided this is a "civil rights" issue and therefore should be decided by judges and not the people.


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