News Analysis
Massachusetts Newspapers Continue to Push for Homosexual Marriage; State House News Service Is Led by Nose by Pinch Sulzberger, Owner of New York Times and Boston Globe
Boston, August 26
By MassNews Staff
            The State House News Service released a story this morning which totally ignored the fact that a vote will be taken this year to remove the four judges on the state’s Supreme Court which illegally forced homosexual marriage on the state in November 2003.
            “It’s amazing that a free society has a press corps which continues to allow this,” says Atty. J. Edward Pawlick, lawyer for Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage. That organization obtained over 130,000 signatures in 2001, far more than were required, for an Amendment to the state Constitution which forbad homosexual marriage. But the legislature refused to allow a vote to send the Amendment to the voters because they knew it would win. (Only 25% were needed to send the measure to a vote by the citizens.)
            “Even the well-reputed State House News Service continues to be led by its nose by Pinch Sulzberger, the owner of the New York Times and its subsidiary, the Boston Globe,” said Atty. Pawlick. The press in Massachusetts remains totally dominated by Sulzberger, as vacation time is ending and a new business-year begins on Labor Day.
            “There is finally daylight ahead for us as a vote looms in the Legislature on a Resolution by Rep. Emile Goguen (D-Fitchburg) to fire the four judges who forced homosexual marriage on the state in November 2003. But the press refuses to even report the impending vote. Pinch won’t allow that.”
            The Speaker of the House, Salvatore DiMasi, has promised Goguen that he will allow a vote this year even though he favors homosexual marriages. Rep. Goguen says he has no doubt that Speaker DiMasi will do as he promised.
            But all that the News Service reported for today’s newspapers across the state was about a new Constitutional Convention to start a new amendment, which might be ready for the voters by 2008.
            “We have a Resolution which will remove the four judges immediately, this year,” exclaims Atty. Pawlick. “Homosexual marriage will be gone from Massachusetts forever. And the News Service fails to report that important event,” the lawyer reports incredulously.
            However, both Rep. Goguen and Atty. Pawlick are optimistic that a vote will be taken as promised by Sal DiMasi and the four judges, Margaret Marshall, John Greaney, Roderick Ireland, and Judith Cowin, will be removed from the bench if they do not retire sooner in order to keep their retirement benefits of over $1 million each.