Opinion

Judge Marshall Must Understand ---

We Battled for Independence from Great Britain in 1776; We’re Not Going Back

By Attorney J. Edward Pawlick           

            Judge Margaret Marshall was born and raised in South Africa, a part of the British Empire never known for freedom.  

            Nevertheless, she assured a crowd of 300, at a banquet of homosexuals in 1999, that the U.S. is no longer a leader of freedom in the world. This was recorded by a homosexual partner at the prestigious law firm of Hale & Dorr, Joseph Barri, who described her speech in a report that is still on the website of the Massachusetts Lesbian & Gay Bar Association.

"The highlight of the evening for many was the keynote address given by Justice Margaret Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court. Marshall, born in South Africa, noted with pride that her native land was the first country to write sexual orientation protections into the national Constitution. Based on those constitutional protections, South Africa's highest court last year struck down apartheid-era laws banning sodomy between consenting adults and Marshall read excerpts from the stirring decision. The Justice encouraged those lawyers in attendance to pay attention to the growing body of gay-friendly international jurisprudence " (Mass Gay and Lesbian Bar Association)

           “She noted that lawyers in other countries have been referring to equality jurisprudence in the United States for several hundred years,” wrote Barri, “and that perhaps it is the time for lawyers in the United States to seek assistance from courts in other countries like South Africa, where new precedents are now being set.”
  When she wrote her famous opinion about homosexual marriage last year, she was forced to take the unusual step of citing a provincial court in Canada, another former member of the British Empire, for the authority to make her illegal ruling. 

                      Marshall told the homosexual group in 1999 that she approved of “rights” for homosexuals in our Constitution, and they should look to South Africa for their guidance.

            Came to U.S. at 26

            Marshall did not come to the U.S. until she was 17, when she spent a year in Delaware. She returned for good at age 26 in order to get a Masters in Education from Harvard.

            She was an immediate heroine to the liberals in this country because she was willing to travel around the U.S. denouncing South Africa for its apartheid policies. But the blacks in this country have never agreed and were very vocal against her appointment to the SJC in 1997, saying she was a spoiled rich kid who used apartheid to advance her personal career.

            Marshall received her education about the U.S. as a member of the elite at Harvard and Yale, eventually marrying at age 37, the then 57-year-old premiere columnist at the New York Times for over fifty years, Anthony Lewis, who was dismissed in 2001 because his radical views became too much even for the Times.    

            Atty. Barri also wrote: “Justice Marshall noted that ‘open advocacy for equal rights on behalf of people who have been discriminated against on the basis of sexual orientation has become a powerful piece of the general move for civil liberties for all people.’ In finishing her presentation, Justice Marshall exhorted the lawyers in the audience to refer to the decision of the South African Constitutional Court in their equality jurisprudence efforts in the United States.”

            The vast majority of citizens in this state understand that no judge, much less a Justice in our Supreme Judicial Court, should have told homosexuals in 1999 she believed that “rights” for homosexuals should be in every Constitution, including ours, or that they should look to South Africa for their guidance. That is why Marshall is now officially and legally charged under our Constitution with Removal. A vote is now required in our state legislature.