Article 8 Alliance – Massachusetts – ** February Update **

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In this email update:

1.  House Speaker DiMasi shuffles posts – puts anti-marriage reps in leadership positions.

2.  Homosexual activists to celebrate their hold on Legislature with big event at State House this Thursday…(Let’s be there!)

3.  Gay movement organizes at regional meeting Littleton – targets Rep. Pat Walrath & others.

4.  Article 8 immediate fundraising goal set. . . to fight back.

NEWS ITEM:  Court strikes down New York’s ban on same-sex marriage – NYC appealing ruling.  [Associated Press–Feb. 5]  Activist judges are at it again, out of control and determined to force their radical will on the people.  This is why we keep saying: stopping it HERE will send a message across the country!

Click here to read the article.

===  1.  House Speaker DiMasi shuffles posts – puts anti-marriage reps in leadership positions.  ===

Well, the other shoe has dropped, as they say.  The House Speaker has announced his “leadership team” of committee chairmen, etc., and, well, it ain’t pretty.  But given DiMasi’s sleazy behavior last year toward the pro-family movement, and his extreme pro-homosexual public pronouncements, this isn’t much of a surprise. 

His new leadership team is like a who’s who of the anti-family establishment: Robert DeLeo, Marie St. Fleur, Byron Rushing, Cheryl Rivera, Michael Festa, Ruth Balser, Jay Kaufman, Frank Smizik, James Marzilli – several of whom had offices in the basement during the Finneran era.

Here are the various news reports on this:

Boston Globe: DiMasi bends House to left

Boston Herald: Speaker lifts loyalists, ousts opponents

Associated Press: Liberal lawmakers coming in from the cold in Massachusetts House

Note from Article 8 Alliance:  Do NOT let any of this dampen your spirits.  We had expected this all along.  These people were going to be obstacles anyway.  And we’ll still get past them.  Moreover, we’re tired of people who anguish over what they think is “politically possible”.  We the people will decide what’s possible, not a bunch of self-serving politicians.  (It’s happened before, many times, and it will happen again.)

===  2.  Homosexual activists to celebrate their hold on Legislature with big event at State House this Thursday…(Let’s be there!)  ===

As you can imagine, the homosexual movement in Massachusetts thinks it’s on top of the world these days.  Their sense is that they pretty much “own” the State Legislature, with DiMasi and Travaglini (both thoroughly sold out to the gays) running things.

And as usual, their urge is to publicly brag about it and “celebrate”.  So their latest media event is right at the State House, this Thursday at noon – to rub it in, so to speak.  Here’s the announcement they’ve been sending around:

Religious Coalition for the Freedom Marry

7th Anniversary Celebration and Awards Presentation

Thursday, February 10th

Noon – 1:00 PM

Great Hall, State House, Boston

Event is free and open to the public, but space is limited

RSVP to info@rcfm.org or (617) 878-2360

Note: “Open to the public.”  It would certainly be interesting to see who gets their awards.  They’re certainly acting like they run the place . . . but things can change, can’t they?  We need people to join us there – give us a call if you can make it!

===  3.  Gay movement organizes at regional meeting Littleton – targets Rep. Pat Walrath & others.    ===

It was one of the main action items of the “Acton Equality” meeting, held at a Unitarian church in Littleton on Saturday, January 29.  The homosexual movement in the area northwest of Boston has decided to target Rep. Pat Walrath (D-Stow) and others they think are vulnerable with various forms of pressure, persuasion, and harassment to get them to support the homosexual agenda in the State House. 

Organized by former Acton School Committee member Jesse Liberty (who changed his name from Jesse Levine) the activists running the meeting concluded that Walrath’s Catholic upbringing “seems to be her stumbling block”.  Since she’s elderly (around age 70, they said) they’ve decided she can be pressured by gay supporters in the district to disown her religious faith and come around. 

In Walrath’s case, this is rather curious.  Last May, Rep. Walrath told one of her Article 8 constituents that she was against gay marriage but supported civil unions.  Thus, she did not vote with the gays on the constitutional amendment.  But she’s also listed by Planned Parenthood as “pro-choice” and voted for the buffer zone to keep protesters away from abortion clinics.  So her Catholicism wouldn’t seem to that much of a stumbling block to us.

Nevertheless, the gay activists seem to have mapped out a strategy for going after state legislators who they think they can handle.  We’ll have a full report next time.

Think the homosexuals aren’t serious about changing your laws and bullying the legislature?  They’re moving state-wide.  Over the next few weeks, according to their recent emails, the gays have scheduled:

Wednesday, February 9th

MassEquality Community Organizing Meeting

7:00 PM

Independent Christian Church,

Unitarian Universalist

10 Church Street

Gloucester, MA 01930

RSVP: Amy Mello at AmyMello@MassEquality.org or call 617-878-2307

Thursday, February 10th

MassEquality Volunteer Night

MassEquality HQ

11 Beacon Street, Suite 1125

Boston, MA 02108

from 6:00 to 8:30

Thursday, February 10th

MassEquality Community Organizing Meeting

7 – 8:30 PM

United Congregational Church

6 Institute Rd, Worcester, MA

RSVP: Amy Mello at AmyMello@MassEquality.org or call 617-878-2307

Tuesday, February 15th

Merrimac Valley Organizing Meeting

7:00 PM

Universalist Unitarian Church

16 Ashland St.,

Haverhill, MA 01830

RSVP: Amy Mello at AmyMello@MassEquality.org or call 617-878-2307

And in case you're in the mood for some depraved fun. . .

Freedom to Marry Coalition Valentine Gala

Saturday, February 12^th - 6:30 PM – midnight

Boston Park Plaza Hotel

64 Arlington St, Boston

formal attire, silent and live auction

tickets $125 available online at www.equalmarriage.org/gala.php

A Valentine’s Dance to Benefit MassEquality

Saturday, February 12^th - 8 o’clock until midnight

Union Station

125 Pleasant St, Northampton

Donation: $25 - $50 per person

Tickets available at the door

===  4.  Article 8 immediate fundraising goal set. . . to fight back.   ===

It’s up to us.  We are the only Massachusetts group organizing to fight back, and take back our government.  Our position is clear: The homosexual movement is “a mile wide and an inch thick”.  They can be stopped.  They may have loads of money and media support but WE have the people. . . if we can properly mobilize them.  If we can do that, they are a house of cards.  But if we don’t, to be blunt, they will turn into storm troopers.

We’re working with volunteers in every one of the 200 House and Senate districts.  We have the Bill of Address, the two other pro-marriage bills, and the Parents' Rights Bill in the Massachusetts Legislature ready to go.  We have sponsors, co-sponsors, and bi-partisan support.  BUT WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

“MassEquality”, is bragging on their website www.massequality.org that two of their wealthy supporters have pledged $200,000 in matching grants.  The “Massachusetts Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus” claims in their latest email that they have a $100,000 matching grant pledged to them.  Let’s do the math.  That represents $600,000 – to be used to take away your rights and replace them with a horrific agenda.  And that's just the beginning.

We’ve set a short-term goal.  We want to raise $50,000 as soon as possible.  We proved in the past elections (where we stopped them almost completely!) that we can be much more efficient with money than they are.  But we can’t exist, and carry on the fight, on nothing at all.  We need to pay our staff, printing & mailing, office costs, and a hundred other things.  In a very real sense, this is a culture war.  Unlike the gays, we don’t have lavish matching grants.  It’s all up to individuals.  How important is this fight to you? 

Remember, freedom isn’t free. . .

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These are the tools we'll need to take back our government.  We've got a LOT more support in the Legislature than before, and it's growing.  It's up to us to roll up our sleeves and get it done.

AS WE’VE BEEN SAYING ALL ALONG – IT’S UP TO THE PEOPLE NOW!  THIS CAN AND WILL BE WON.

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