Letters

Contents:
Potpourri of Letters
Homosexual Trying to Change
'Freedom Will Conquer' Is an Inspiration
Sink Cellucci's Ambassadorship
Wellesley Girl Photos Exposed Too Much
MIAA Allows Only Happy News From Schools
Libertarian Is Unhappy
Planned Parenthood Kills Worcester Mother and Child
Medicine Needs 'Injection of Integrity'
Ted Kennedy More Dangerous Than Guns
The Bountiful Benefits of Baldness, Stress and Death
Revolution Fought to Promote Freedom - Even to be Wrong
Boy Scouts Deserve Better
Gay Agenda Amounts to 'Terrorism'
Concord Journal Protects Those Who Usurp Parents' Rights
Straight Parents Have Rights Too
It's 'Sick' to Teach Fisting in Schools
School is for Learning How to Interact - Even With Gays

DSS War on Children
Child Prodigy Worse Than Reported
DSS Let Abuse Continue in Foster Home
Same Problems in North Carolina
European Families Not Safe Either
DSS on Front Line Against Pedophiles

Hate Mail
Lay Off Gay People
Mass News Made Me Fall Off My Toilet
Mass News is Anti-Christian


(Many of these letters are written about articles that are just appearing in this print edition because these readers have already seen them on our Internet site at www.massnews.com. About 10,000 persons read our site every day.)

Potpourri of Letters

Homosexual Trying to Change

I was indeed a self-proclaimed faggot until recently - in part, because of your publication. I am still living with a man, but we no longer have sexual touching or intercourse. I have begun to heal my mind and body from the years of sin that I've lived in. I would like to thank you for suggesting that I make such a change. One thing, though, is I wish you would not make fun of gay people or governor Cellucci. I still have gay friends, some of whom are common to you as well. You do know me, but I will never tell you who I really am.

Thank you so much. Keep up the good work.

- Name Withheld

One Editor's Comment: I've had a dozen or so "gay" friends and associates over the years. Of those with whom I discussed the issue, it was clear that none of them were happy with their lifestyle. Every single one admitted attraction to the opposite sex. In fact, most were "homosexual" - or should I say, practiced homosexuality - only during a period of their lives. That is one reason I know that people are not born that way and that it is possible to change.

Your new decision will be extremely difficult to follow through on if you continue to live with a gay man and spend time around practicing homosexuals. I hope you will contact Exodus International or some other organization that is dedicated to the healing of homosexuality.

As for Paul Cellucci, he is a politician who is fair game, and must, like other politicians be subjected to criticism and ridicule when he deserves it. That is the job of the press in a democracy, and unfortunately, the press is not doing that in Massachusetts.

As for making fun of homosexuals, we have never done that. There is nothing funny about homosexual behavior. It is psychologically painful and tragically destructive. Those who smugly deny that - whatever their motive - are party to human misery.

We criticize radical homosexual activists and their allies in the media and politics for using the schools to corrupt the minds of children, for attempting to create some sort of "gay marriage," for persecuting former homosexuals and telling practicing homosexuals that they can never change. We deplore radical activists who spread hate against people of traditional moral values by pretending that opposing homosexuality is the same as hating homosexuals.

Because our newspaper takes a politically incorrect editorial position on homosexuality, we receive numerous phone calls from the activists who are accustomed to having it all their way. These calls are often vicious, hateful and sometimes criminally threatening. They frequently involve absurdly false accusations about who we are and what we believe by people who - as it turns out - have not read a single article in our paper. They are also revealing deep ignorance about the subjects on which they are so adamant.

Editor's Comment: While I agree with the reply of one of our editors, I believe that a change by you will not be easy. This lifestyle becomes addictive. It is my belief that you will achieve your goal only if you put your life totally in the hands of God. If you do that, He will accomplish for you what you cannot do alone.

'Freedom Will Conquer' Is an Inspiration

Please convey to Mr. Pawlick my pleasure with Freedom Will Conquer Racism and Sexism. It was heartening to read his tribute to Jeff Jacoby, recently returned after his suspension from the Boston Globe. Mr. Pawlick's assessment of America's political history makes possible a better view of the New Glory and its demands. We seem to be caught up in revolutions galore that challenge our precepts and attitudes. Mr. Pawlick's sense of balance in 2001 is an inspiration.

Or as my most favorite Massachusetts poet, James Russell Lowell, once penned: "Freedom needs all her poets; it is they who give her aspirations wings, and to the wiser law of music Sway her wild imaginings."

- Margaret Goduti
Arlington

Sink Cellucci's Ambassadorship

I am writing to express my opposition to Gov. Paul Cellucci's pending appointment to an ambassadorship to Canada. I read your news very often, and I think the service you do is commendable.

- David Hatch

Editor's Comment: We're happy to hear from you and we hope that you always express your thoughts to your elected representatives as well.

Wellesley Girl Photos Exposed Too Much

(Regarding "Fistgate at Wellesley College?")

As much as I am appalled at all the moral decay that we are trying to expose and eradicate from our society, I respectfully request that, as you have done in the past with the Madison Square Garden orgy, you refrain from showing certain photos. I don't think that you had any intention of offending anyone, but I personally do not need to see barely dressed women. It made it difficult for me to fully read the article.

I firmly believe in "taking every thought captive and making it obedient to Christ" and although I am covered by grace, I hope to decrease the amount of temptation to which I am exposed. I would appreciate a little more discretion.

Thank you for your time. You do a needed job in helping to expose what is going on. Keep up the good work.

- Carl Peirce
Roslindale

Editor's Comment: The same as no one believed that Fistgate happened until they heard the tape, no one will believe us about Wellesley unless we show them the picture.

MIAA Allows Only Happy News From Schools

You've picked a noble cause in this state, but I'm afraid your obsession with homosexuality and feminism overshadows whatever positive contributions you might make to balancing the reporting of news across the Commonwealth. Give us more digging up the absurdities of the General Court, the strong-arm tactics of state agencies and the demise of what's left of the GOP, and get over the puerile obsession with sexual matters.

I read on the Globe website this morning that the schools' athletic association, the MIAA, requires schools to sign a contract in which they agree "not to expose negative or questionable activity." Evidently only happy news is allowed to emanate from the member schools of this athletic association. Where does their funding come from? How can they get away with strong-arm tactics like this?

A perfect story for MassNews.

Good luck.

- Dan Kirsch
South Hadley

Editor's Comment: You should be happy to see our lead story this issue on the GOP. You should have enjoyed our recent stories about deaths caused by mistakes in Massachusetts hospitals and the worsening of sprawl because of mandates upon the towns from the General Court. Or how about Gov. Cellucci getting national attention because he tried to ignore citizens? We could go on and on with other important topics we are covering with our small staff. But we will never agree that concern about our children and grandchildren indicates "puerile obsession."

Libertarian Is Unhappy

I read your accounts of the Jeannine Graf firing and wrote to WTKK questioning their motives. Frankly, I believe the station when they cite poor rating as the reason for her dismissal. Have you ever heard her show? It really was not good. Compared to the other on-air talent that TKK employs, Ms. Graf seems much the novice.

Furthermore, your claim that she was too controversial holds absolutely no water. Perhaps this is why you fail to mention popular afternoon talk host Jay Severin, who far exceeds Jeannine Graf in contentiousness and tackling the hot issues with aplomb. In fact, he has shown no qualms whatsoever about denouncing the very same homosexual agenda that your publication has loudly crusaded against.

When I first subscribed to MassNews, I did so after receiving a free issue by mail. At the time, this libertarian found your paper to be a fresh voice in a state where liberalism dominates the mainstream media. However, my tolerance for your hasty attacks and excessive coverage of old-fashioned issues, such as the supposed "war against boys," has drastically waned to the point where I will not be renewing my subscription.

While I agree that the Boston Globe heavily leans to the left in most of the news they report and print outside of sports, the Massachusetts News is nothing but their complete antithesis.

The only thing missing from your pages is a blatant Christian benediction that you don't seem to at least have the courage to acknowledge as your modus operandi.

- Michael J. Marra
Taunton

Editor's Comment: There is no question that we are writing from the traditional Judeo Christian worldview. That has been clear from our first issue. Many libertarians share that viewpoint and I have always considered myself a libertarian. However some libertarians deny a place at the table for any who believes in a God. I don't know who decides who is entitled to be a libertarian, but there are definitely some who would vote us out of the party.

Planned Parenthood Kills Worcester Mother and Child

A mother and pre-born child died under "Dr." Brian Walsh's supervision at Planned Parenthood in Worcester. Planned Parenthood has never publicly admitted the death (the botched client's name was Elise A. Kalat, docket number is WOCV88-01567 in the Worcester Superior Court); it is only after court documents have come to light that the facts have become known. This is a secret Planned Parenthood blooper that they wish to forget.

Women die of legal abortion still in America.

- Lillian Smith
Abington

Medicine Needs 'Injection of Integrity'

The United States is 42nd in the world in health, although we rank first in cost of treatment as compared to our personal income. This speaks well for our ability to make medicine into a business, but speaks poorly for our intelligent approach to health.

Do our medical researchers ever study healthy people, complete body systems as if "the hipbone is connected to the thigh bone?" Do our researchers ever learn from and study research from other countries and find out how they deal with health problems? Or do they have to reinvent the wheel and learn their painful, disastrous mistakes at the high expense of our quality of life?

Will the U.S. always rank low and treat excessively? When medicine ceases to be big business, I predict the U.S. will achieve a more respectable level of care, and that we will have real health care, not just focus on diseases. Unnecessary risky procedures will be eliminated as more attention is placed on well being instead of disease and pathology. I welcome the possibility and am looking forward to the inevitable shift.

- Patricia Robinett
Eugene, OR

Ted Kennedy More Dangerous Than Guns

(Regarding March edition's, "Linda Hamilton is Guilty of 'Assault With Dangerous Weapon.'")

No one has been able to explain to me how a state that played an important part in the founding of our Republic has turned into a totalitarian police state. It was guns that made Massachusetts free and it will be guns that will keep it free. Why a woman should be prosecuted for having a weapon in her car and displaying it to an overzealous trucker who was harassing her is beyond me. The only obvious explanation is that the DA is rabidly anti-gun and cut a deal with the trucker.

One of your Senators has killed more people with his cars than your law-abiding people have with their guns.

- Bill Burt
MO

The Bountiful Benefits of Baldness, Stress and Death

When I was a young man, most young females had but one dream: to have a home and raise children. Back then, at least people knew who they were.

Today, the female's goal appears to be the same as the male's. Today's woman wants what she thinks she has lost: working two jobs to feed and house her family, premature baldness, heart attacks in her forties and fifties, death eight- to fifteen-years before her chosen mate, and death and mutilation on the fields of combat, plus other such niceties that we males have enjoyed over the centuries. Ladies, congratulations! You have arrived!

Now gentlemen, maybe you should remove that special female from her pedestal. Maybe your time has arrived to step up there and try the view, if only to see why females hated it so much.

- Joseph Mederios
Milford

Revolution Fought to Promote Freedom - Even to be Wrong

I picked up my first copy of your paper in Wellesley today and am absolutely intrigued by your articles. We have several things in common, although not everything.

Like you, I am appalled by the slanted unbalanced coverage of our major news media, both TV and press. I am heartily distrustful of anything I see in print, having experienced many of the events so inadequately covered and looking in vain for the truth about them.

I, too, believe that our judicial system is horribly staffed, filled with incompetents and political hacks with no training in history, philosophy, religion, psychology or any of the disciplines that are needed to dispense justice justly. I bemoan the excellent people sent packing because they do not agree with the masters that control and restrict one of our basic rights: freedom of speech. For example, how can a station that puts Don Imus on the air fire anyone?

Like you, I decry a Department of Social Services headed by political hacks concerned only with their own political ambitions and peopled with overworked, under trained, underpaid public servants who make many mistakes handling our thousands of abused children and wives. And I am appalled at the indifference to public health shown by our ludicrously impotent hospitals and all-powerful bureaucratic HMOs, where our doctors are paid not to treat us, or to refer us when we are in need of a specialist.

My daughter, for instance, a 15-year RN in the ER at Newton-Wellesley Hospital, has just been laid off with about 40 others in a time when the nursing scarcity in Boston is at a record high and the ER is often closed for hours at a time due to understaffing. Why? They hired a nurse manager, with not one-hour of nursing training, at a high salary to 'save money.' She immediately hired another bureaucrat as her assistant at equally high wages. How is she saving money?

However, I enjoy your rants, but only because you make no pretense at being objective or even educated. You also conveniently ignore (or are perhaps unaware) of all the scientific evidence brought to bear on the genetic origins of homosexuality (analogous to having blue eyes, or being right-handed).

While I disagree with much you have to say, I am still grateful we live in a country where we can both state our beliefs.

Maybe our ancestors did not fight and help win our Revolution for nothing.

- Alice Copeland Brown
Canton

Editor's Comment: We're happy to know she enjoys our "rants." Obviously, she has never seen much that we have written in the last two years or she would not be "educating" us. We have written in great detail about the "scientific evidence" on the "genetic origins of homosexuality" but we cannot repeat it in every issue. As a matter of fact, within a few weeks after we wrote our first article in January 1999, the Boston Globe changed their policy in two major articles in their issue of February 7, 1999 where they acknowledged 1) the "gay gene" is a myth and 2) homosexuals can, and do, change.

Boy Scouts Deserve Better

I am saddened and distressed by the United Way and its cave-in regarding the Boy Scouts. The "Non-Discrimination Policy" recently passed by its board is discriminatory against those who believe the lifestyle choice of homosexuality is wrong. The Boy Scouts do excellent work with the youth of America and this policy can only hinder them in the good work everyone agrees that they do.

Furthermore, hiding behind Massachusetts state law is crazy because the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Scouts can bar homosexuals from being Scout leaders.

In the end, this will only harm the young men the United Way says they are pledged to help, and all for political expediency. I hope they are happy.

- James C. Lindsay
East Brookfield

Gay Agenda Amounts to 'Terrorism'

Jeannine Graf and others like her should not be fired for exposing this horrendous mess! I am one of thousands of people that are finding out just what exactly is going on.

Our tax dollars are supporting a gay agenda that is, in one word, abuse. There are going to be many, many more who find out, wake up and protest against this total terrorism from the homosexual agenda in the schools! It is an utter disgrace!

- Lin H.
Ventura, CA

Concord Journal Protects Those Who Usurp Parents' Rights

Last week, the editor of the Concord Journal refused to print a letter outlining specific policies and curricula at Concord-Carlisle High School; unfortunately, he has appointed himself "town censor" of facts and opinion in the town of Concord.

The Concord Journal is a newspaper monopoly. Excepting a few short-term editors, the editors of the Concord Journal are known for their repression of information deemed uncomplimentary to those who hold influence and power.

When the First Parish Unitarian-Universalist Church was being investigated for exposing children to pornography of a criminal nature, the Concord Journal suppressed the story until it was scheduled to be aired on national TV. One editor of the Concord Journal refused to print alarming lead data from analyses of school water because she "didn't want to upset parents." More recently, the Concord Journal failed to report outrageous statements made by Senator Fargo at a League of Women Voters debate. The League also edited Fargo's statement from a videotape prior to broadcast on cable TV, and later it refused to print a letter reporting this incident.

The public had a right to know that Ms. Fargo insulted parents who do not want their children exposed to bisexual, homosexual, and transgender issues outside sex education classes. The public had a right to know Ms. Fargo tolerates loopholes in the Parental Notification Law. It is unfortunate that the public's right to know was and continues to be compromised by editorial decisions intended to protect those who control our schools and town.

Mr. Kevin Convey, editor in chief of Community Newspaper Co., recently wrote that he works for "us." Was he speaking to "we the people" or "we the power-brokers of Concord?" He also said he is "committed to making your paper essential reading, bulging with the kind of community news and opinion you can't get anywhere else."

I'll believe it when I see it. Since the Herald acquired the Concord Journal, it appears editorial censorship of facts and opinions has gone from bad to worse.

- Lee Ann Kay
Concord

Letter That Was Censored

Concord-Carlisle High School students who insist the school bears no responsibility for drunken, provocative and lascivious behavior at school dances should re-examine the facts. Surely the abundance of gay propaganda and sexual instruction have done little to curb bad behavior. If school administrators want our children to become moral, decent individuals, why do they continually fill their minds with prurient material?

A report of students engaging in erotic activities at a high school dance should be no surprise since CCHS encourages students to consider a broad range of sexual options. The book Risky Times by Jeanne Blake was distributed to students in the early 90's and continues as a resource book in health education classes. Page 61, entitled "Instead Of Intercourse," reads as follows: "You could do a lot of snuggling with music, poetry, and hugs. You can get into heavy petting and mutual masturbation. You don't have to have intercourse to show that you want to be close to someone." Only fools would present such prurient materials to students and then act shocked when students do it in full view.

Homosexual-bisexual experimentation, rather than school safety, is emphasized throughout the state's Gay- Straight Alliances. Spectrum, a gay-straight sexual orientation club, has a glass-encased gay bulletin board prominently displayed near the principal's office. This club has posted lesbian poetry, advertised gay events, and exhibited pictures of girls kissing and boys romantically hugging boys. Gay flags hang in some classrooms beside the American flags, while gay banners and posters periodically adorn school hallways.

On March 25, 2000, teenagers from Gay-Straight Alliances throughout Massachusetts were bussed to a GLSEN conference at Tufts University. There, homosexual activists graphically instructed students on how to perform anal and oral sex. Despite the fact most parents do not want their children engaging in sex, whether homosexual or heterosexual, the principal of CCHS refused a request that teenage sexual abstinence posters be placed on the Spectrum bulletin board. Apparently, doing sex in any way continues to dominate school culture.


Straight Parents Have Rights Too

I'm absolutely outraged that gay and lesbians have rights to express their sexual beliefs in our school systems while straight parents don't. Why can't they be like everyone else and leave it in their bedrooms? School is about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Not how to perform oral sex or how to fist someone of the same sex!

I, as a parent, have the right to decide how my child will be raised, not some coalition of gay and lesbian teachers. A teacher meets with a child a few hours per week. This does not give him or her the right to decide how the child will be raised. Leave this to the parents! Our children are already confused enough.

And the Governor refuses to speak about it!

Have we fought and died for nothing?

- Pat O
Leominster

It's 'Sick' to Teach Fisting in Schools

I heard about "Fistgate" on the news and in your paper. If this is what Massachusetts is allowing to be taught in its schools, its people are past idiotic and downright sick. If I had children in Massachusetts schools, I would remove them. Your state's education dept. needs a complete house cleaning!

- John Elwell
OK

School is for Learning How to Interact - Even With Gays

The point of school is to learn. Besides learning how to read and write, children also learn how to interact socially through school. If homosexuality is never mentioned in a school, how are homosexuals going to learn how to act socially and how are heterosexuals going to learn how to act socially with homosexuals?

- Aaron Tavares
Somerset

Editor's Comment: Of course homosexuals should interact with others. But an approval of their lifestyle should not be taught in the schools and our telephone poll of 600 residents last year shows that 92% of the citizens agree that no children, whether homosexual or heterosexual, should be encouraged to be sexually active, which is what the schools are doing.

DSS War on Children

Child Prodigy Worse Than Reported

I am moved to correct an error that you made in your article about the child prodigy whom DSS snatched from his mother. The situation is actually worse than you reported.

You said, "The significance of the change from a criminal to a civil matter is that in a criminal case all the protections of due process and the burdens of proof apply. When it becomes a civil matter and DSS is brought in, all the constitutional safeguards fly out the window."

That is even more true than you realized, though not for the reason you suggest. Next, you said, "The burden of proof shifts from 'clear and convincing evidence' necessary to convict, to a 'preponderance of the evidence.'" By stating it in this way, you left the impression that it is DSS that faces the lower burden of proving why an accusation is probably true.

This is wrong! It is not DSS that has the burden to show why an accusation is probably true; rather, the burden is on the defendant to show, via a preponderance of evidence, why an accusation is probably not true!

This makes it even harder to prevail against a DSS accusation than you had supposed. Harder still when judges rubber-stamp DSS recommendations. And harder still when DSS is its own prosecutor, judge and jury, free to accept or reject any evidence that the defendant may have to present to it.

It amounts to a Stalinist kangaroo court where the truth is whatever DSS says it is, and the defendant effectively has no rights whatsoever.

There is a solution. The New York Court of Appeals has said that the NY DSS' shift of the burden of preponderance of evidence to the defendant is unconstitutional. However, I have waited a long time for a case and an attorney to come forth who will come forth with a constitutional challenge to DSS. Maybe Massachusetts State Representative Marie Parente might be a good person to contact.

- James A. Nollet
Woburn

DSS Let Abuse Continue in Foster Home

My kids were taken from me and it took almost four years to get them back. When I did, my youngest daughter wasn't the same, she'd been abused in her foster home. Since then, she's been having nightmares and has even been suicidal.

My daughter told a DSS worker that she was being abused there, but the DSS worker called her a liar.

I know the Howards and they are very good parents to their children. Their baby was very healthy and very happy. There was no reason at all for Jessica to be taken away. I really hope and pray that the Howards win their kids back.

-Name Withheld
Lowell

Same Problems in North Carolina

I live in North Carolina, but I am very happy to see a newspaper that is not afraid to report the abuses of DSS to families. If there were more papers like yours, maybe the abuse from this agency wouldn't be so bad. I am also fighting DSS for the custody of my daughter. I was found to be a fit parent in court and told that my daughter would be safe in my custody, but the foster parents want to adopt her. They have petitioned to terminate my parental rights. You can read my story at http://www.geocities.com/stella_777_99. Thank you for helping to inform the public

- Jamie Escobedo
Raleigh, NC

European Families Not Safe Either

We in the Nordic Committee for Human Rights have by good fortune been made aware of your web site through one of our American connections that linked to one of your articles about children abducted by the DSS. This is the central concern of the NCHR and we have linked to several of your articles on such topics. The actions of "child protective" agencies seem to be just about the same in most countries and the effects on the children, as well as on their parents, are tragic indeed.

Although based in Europe, we have many readers in the US and Canada and from time to time we receive cries of help from your side of the Atlantic from individuals persecuted by the social services. We are certainly interested in expanding our knowledge of organizations, newspapers and individuals who are aware of what is going on and who try to combat it.

If you care to consult our web site, the address is http://www.nkmr.org. It has a section in English; just click on the British flag. You will see from the article section, and from e.g. the cases from the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights, something of the extent of the problem in Europe. We hope you will continue to address this issue in the way you have been doing.

- Marianne Haslev Skanland
Professor, Vice-Chairman of NCHR
Bergen, Norway

DSS on Front Line Against Pedophiles

It is clear that Mass News considers pedophiles the lowest scum in our society and a serious danger. I could not agree more. I disagree with your association of homosexuals to pedophiles, however, as the vast majority of homosexuals despise pedophiles as much as you do.

Mass News also seems outraged by the DSS, which you seem to equate with the Nazi's SS. You indicate that it's a horrible organization that steals children from their innocent parents. But it feels to me like you're complaining about the massive amounts of water 'wasted' by fire departments, then complaining that there are too many wildfires.

Isn't the DSS the only government agency that takes kids from homes where they are abused, raped, beaten, etc.? Aren't the people at the DSS America's front line against pedophiles? Why do you hate pedophiles and also despise the DSS?

- Andy Baseman
Sharon

Editor's Comment: We do not associate homosexuals with pedophiles. We merely dispute the current notion that no homosexual could ever be a pedophile. Actually, to use their own statistics, the fact that homosexuals are only 30% of the pedophiles is bad news to them when you consider that they are about 3% of the population. This means that they are ten times more likely to be so inclined. Our society cannot deny that fact when talking about the Boy Scouts as the propagandists would have us do.

The DSS should be in the front line but they are so poorly managed that they are a part of the problem.

Hate Mail

Lay Off Gay People

I think your prejudice against gay people is unfair and mean-spirited. As a heterosexual male, I am always surprised at the attitude anti-gay people like you have that homosexuality is something people choose on a whim and can give up like a bad habit.

Who would so lightly bring so much trouble on themselves? There is now evidence that homosexuality is determined at birth, if not before, and that gays are as fixed in their sexuality as you are in yours.

How would you like it if the tables were turned and you were a member of a tiny minority persecuted for something that is no fault of your own? Lay off the gay people. It's ugly and degrading.

Now that I've said that, I'm curious about something. I assume that among your conservative values are patriotism and belief in democracy. Are you going to write up something on the FTAA (Free Trade Agreement of the Americas)? When this group meets in Quebec next month (under armed guard), they are going to continue to work in secret to undermine the sovereignty of the United States government, subordinating its decisions to a tribunal of corporate heads who will have the right to overturn any member government's legislation that they think interferes with profits, including environmental, labor or health laws.

I hope it bothers you that your government is literally being given away to a power that can steal your rights as a citizen and a voter, and that the text of this agreement determining the future of your own country is being kept secret. You should write something about NAFTA, MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investments), WTO and all the other forums for the dismantling of our democracy that are advancing their treasonous agenda.
- David Hunter

Editor's Comment: The homosexual "evidence" you cite is from the early 1990s and has been discredited by everyone as noted by my comment in an earlier letter.

Mass News Made Me Fall Off My Toilet

I wish to thank you for the complimentary issue of Massachusetts News I received in the mail. It is refreshing to see that not everyone has lost his or her sense of humor. The political satire presented in your publication is second to none. I rarely enjoy reading fiction but your publication is truly an exception. In fact, while reading, I laughed so hard I nearly fell off the toilet. I'm serious. Your writers are so good that they could easily write for National Lampoon or Saturday Night Live. In addition this "news" paper makes excellent kindling for the fireplace and it was free. Now that's value! Please keep up the good work. And remember, always use a condom.

- Adam Schoedel
Greenfield

Mass News is Anti-Christian

I received a complimentary copy of your newspaper in my postbox this morning. Thank you for the reminder that bigotry, hatred, ignorance and intolerance is alive and well in the state of Massachusetts.

Massachusetts News is yet another sad and pathetic reminder that we who must continue the fight for justice, fairness, equality, based upon the Christian principle of love and mercy, must keep the faith and press on.

- A. Smith-Howard, Ph.D.
South Hadley

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