Speaker of Mass. House        Has Agreed to Allow a Vote
              The new Speaker of the Mass. House of Representatives, Sal DiMasi (D-Boston), has agreed to allow a vote of his 160 members on the Resolution by Rep. Emile Goguen (D-Fitchburg) to “remove” (under John Adams’ provision) the four judges who voted in Nov. 2003 to impose homosexual “marriage” upon the state. DiMasi has no other choice because the Democratic support of homosexual "marriage” is destroying their party in Massachusetts.
            He has witnessed two powerful leaders of the legislature go to political graveyards since 2002, first Senate President Tom Birmingham (who had been slated to become Governor in 2002) and then Speaker Tom Finneran who resigned last summer. In addition, DiMasi has also felt the sting of national Democratic pundits who immediately blamed the four judges for the loss by John Kerry of the Presidential election.
            DiMasi has no choice other than to quickly put this issue behind him and his Party. He has privately assured legislators he will follow the law and allow a vote to be taken in the House of Representatives to “remove” the four judges who voted last year to force “gay marriage” upon the state.

How Will This Work?
            Many are now asking how this will work. What will take place? What is crucial is that after the four judges are removed from the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) the remaining judges will be able to reverse the illegal ruling that Chief Justice Margaret Marshall and three of the Associate Judges imposed in November 2003.
            This means that “gay marriage” will immediately be gone from Massachusetts --- undoubtedly forever --- and homosexuals (the vast majority of whom have no desire to get “married”) will be able to return to a normal life. The extreme feminists at NOW will have to accept the fact that only a tiny number of women believe that traditional marriage is deleterious to all women or wish it destroyed, nor do the majority believe that wives are “parasites.”
            This vote could occur in one day, first in the House and then the Senate, but it will undoubtedly take more time as those on the opposite side desperately try to stop the “removal process” (not “impeachment” but “removal”), which is unique to John Adams and the Massachusetts Constitution.

DiMasi Understands About Birmingham and Finneran
            Speaker DiMasi is an astute, crafty veteran, a survivor who realizes what happened to Tom Birmingham and Tom Finneran and has no desire to watch the Democratic Party continue to self-destruct  under his leadership.
He saw the ambitions of Senate President Tom Birmingham to become Governor deflated when the Senator broke the law and violated the state Constitution on July 17, 2002. Birmingham is now a private lawyer and has publicly said that his dream was lost because he broke the law in a desperate effort to stop MCM’s “Protection of Marriage Amendment” from going to a vote in the legislature.
            DiMasi understands that former Speaker Tom Finneran is also a private lawyer now because he, too, violated the state Constitution in 2002. (Finneran personally did not vote to violate the Constitution that year and pretended to be against violating the law, while letting Birmingham take the heat).

           Speaker Finneran, repeated his unlawful activities again in the summer of 2004 when he refused to allow a vote to take place on the Resolution by Rep. Emile Goguen (D-Fitchburg) to remove the four judges from the SJC. As a result, Finneran was besieged with banner airplanes flying over his house on the Cape last summer beginning on July 4, 2004 (as well as in the sky over many locations across the state, including the State House).
             The Speaker heard ads on major radio stations, including the 50,000 watt, clear-channel affiliate of CBS in Boston, WBZ, which included this one:

Let Speaker Finneran know you’re watching. He must allow our Reps to vote on removing Marshall.   It’s required.  Tell Finneran you’re looking for a vote on Removing Judge Marshall and her three cohorts.  Call Finneran … 617-722-2500.

            While these ads may seem innocuous to many, they were not innocuous to one who knew in his heart he was “guilty as charged” and had enough decency to understand that.

Not Unfair to Judges
            The opposition will attempt to say that the “removal” process of John Adams is “unfair” to the four judges even though all the rules of fairness will be followed. This removal of sitting judges was included by John Adams in the Constitution he wrote for our state in 1780. He knew that all human beings have faults and that with the tremendous power that judges possess, it is inevitable that some will become oppressors. Therefore, Adams included the removal process which requires only a simple majority in the House and in the Senate. (For a complete discussion, search the print archives of massnews.com for “What Is Removal of Judges?”)
            Regardless of which way a Senator or Rep votes, he must face the citizens at the next election and explain his vote. This process frightens most legislators because they want to hide. They prefer the never-ending Amendment process which occurred last winter when no one could agree whether any vote was for or against traditional marriage.
            Such confusion is what many legislators desire. But there will be no confusion after the removal process has taken place. It will be absolutely clear to everyone where every legislator stands on the issue. The judges cannot complain because each will be considered separately under Rep. Goguen’s Resolution.
            There will be attempts to delay the procedure by taking this to federal courts and saying that President John Adams was violating the “fairness” of the federal Constitution (which was not yet written in 1780). But the pundits of the Democratic Party will say, “Stop. Enough is enough.” They understand that this would destroy the credibility of the national Democratic Party forever. They know we are monitoring and reporting everything they do.