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.