Letter to the Editor
(The following letter was written to the Springfield Republican about a slanted article that appeared in their newspaper. They refused to print this letter because it pointed out their bias)
In response to Bill Zajac’s December 7, 2005 article, “Anti-gay marriage petition due today“. Mr. Zajac’s article was very informative, except he left out some very important facts. First being, that Senator Brian P. Lees of East Longmeadow was also part of the unconstitutional legislative maneuver to adjourn the legislatures constitutional convention in 2001. Mr. Lees is the one who second the motion to adjourn the legislature, knowing that it was unconstitutional to do so; which in turn, denied every citizen a vote on the issue. Second , the SJC told the acting Governor ( not so swift) Jane Swift in its advisory opinion of December 20, 2002 that the state legislature violated the Constitution when it refused to vote on the Protection of Marriage Amendment. This left the citizens without any redress and without a Republican form of Government, in violation of Article IV, section 4 of the U. S. Constitution. The framers of article. 48 of the state Constitution provided for a robust public debate allowing all citizens to thoroughly discuss and debate the merits of every proposed Amendment. This was clearly denied us by Thomas Birmingham and Brian P. Lees. Mr. Birmingham is gone. Mr. Lees should be next. He broke the public trust, and took from us our voice and our vote, and that is shameful and unforgivable.
Respectively,
Ronald J. Cutler