Letters

Kudos

Kudos for giving the public a breath of fresh air amidst the pungency of left-wing stink.

Mark E. Moore
Stratham, NH

Mass News “Refreshing”

I think you are doing a great job. Keep up the good work. It’s very refreshing to see your paper and to know that there still exist human beings with morals and decency in Massachusetts!

Name Witheld

Mass News Provides Info Not Found Elsewhere

I’ve read a few stories in the Mass News over the past few months. All I can say is that it’s about time!  Good article on Mrs. Hamilton. Good article on Mr. Costius. Where else do you read this information in Massachusetts?  Nowhere!

P. Koski
Woods Hole

Thanks for Exposing Pollack

I want to say thank you for the reporting done by your paper about William Pollack.

I am one father, non-custodial, who well knows the lies and deceptions that a psychologist is capable of perpetrating, for a dollar and some prestige. I lost my daughter because of one. Now she lives with one of those mothers that Mr. Pollack writes for.

Robert Gartner

Media Unfair Towards Lynch

The media has displayed what I coin “puritan journalism” over the past two weeks towards Mr. Lynch’s candidacy for Congress. And, specifically, the Boston Herald has intolerably failed to provide equal coverage.

The fundamental nature of a human should be measured by all of their actions, good and bad, over a period of time and not by a perfectionist-preferred selection.

The reporting of the Lynch case is overloaded on the bad side with only a minute weight on the other side. Based on this tally, Mr. Lynch fits the billing of why a good man is hard to find.

Anthony J Errichetti
Woburn

Massachusetts ‘Lousy’ With Liberals

Your paper is wonderful, despite all the negative letters you receive. I can promise you there are those of us out there smart enough to realize the simple truth you espouse. Keep up the great work and the fight to keep us informed about what is really going on in this lousy liberal state of ours.

And remember, even the liberal version of God (Mother Nature) snubs homosexual behavior by not allowing them to reproduce (survival of the fittest).

David

Bostonian Ashamed to Admit It

I was born in Boston in 1959. I used to like to tell people I’m from Boston. Now, I just don’t even want to acknowledge that I was ever there. I’m perplexed at how our government can consider allowing same sex marriage without consulting the people of this fair country/state! 

If we legalize same sex marriage, then I say everyone should light up a joint of marijuana. Why should we obey the laws laid down for us by our forefathers when years later we are going to be told that they were wrong? All these years my government had taught me that being gay was wrong and not accepted, not because of prejudice, but in order to save us from the likes of Sodom and Gomorrah. If our government decides to make this decision on their own, I think it will rip our country apart.

I guess we shouldn’t pay taxes, and we should let children be molested and say that that too is acceptable. Hey, why not just walk around naked. Whose idea was it to clothe us anyway? Should we listen to anything or anyone unless they wave money in our faces?

Those in support of gay marriage would rip apart the marriage institution merely for the cause of extending benefits. If that’s the case, I think single parents should be getting special treatment as well.

If the state of Massachusetts doesn’t consult the people on this matter, then we are not responsible for the outcome. And believe me, the people of this United States are feeling very left out of a lot of major decisions that are being made on our behalf!

Ann M. Fuller
United States Citizen

Planned ‘Profithood’ Won’t Lower Teen Pregnancy

Abortion supporters have claimed that pro-lifers cause abortions by opposing sex education. The pro-life movement has never opposed sex education. We want to solve this problem of teenage pregnancy as much as anyone else. However, we simply don’t understand the rationale behind turning the responsibility to solve this problem over to the very people who helped create it and who financially profit from it.

When teen pregnancy goes down, Planned Parenthood’s profits go down. And when teen pregnancy goes up, Planned Parenthood’s profits go up! The fact is that these people have a vested financial interest in seeing this problem get worse, so why would we trust them with the job of solving it? The whole concept is totally illogical.

Whatever else some people think about these Planned Parenthood people and regardless of whether they think abortion should be legal or not, surely they couldn’t see this as anything less than a textbook example of a conflict of interest. Surely Americans aren’t so naive they wouldn’t ask themselves what possible motivation Planned Parenthood would have for lowering teen pregnancy, when doing so would be killing the goose that lays their golden egg?

For more information exposing Planned Parenthood, please see my website. www.angelfire.com/tv2/letlives.

G. Guptill
Boston

Sen. Joyce a ‘Moral Traitor’

Regarding Sen. Brian Joyce’s reversal of his long held legislative support for the right of unborn babies to be protected against butchery: My only hope is that the good, pro-life citizens of the 9th Congressional District rally against this moral traitor with a backlash of untold proportions.

All of Mr. Joyce’s current and prospective constituents can be assured that if he is willing to sell out his “personal” opposition to baby killing, then surely all of his other viewpoints are for sale as well. One wonders how Mr. Joyce explains this political prostitution to his wife and children.

Francis M. Hannon, Jr.
Melrose 

Satcher Wrong on Abstinence

A news blip on local radio covered the essence of the recent report on abstinence by Surgeon General David Satcher. The story had a comment by Dr. Joe McIlvaney who disagreed with Satcher about abstinence. I remember Dr. McIlvaney as a member of the Task Force to Prevent Teen Pregnancy and as a proponent of abstinence-only. Dr. McIlvaney was recently interviewed on Dr. D. James Kennedy’s program where he spoke in favor of abstinence.

Remember that the “abstinence-based curriculum” about which Satcher talks includes condom demonstrations, pro-homosexual indoctrination, discussions of all sorts of deviant activities, etc.  The liberals have redefined “abstinence based” to mean the opposite of “abstinence.”

Betty Peters

Exposure to Gay Lifestyle Can Be ‘Terrible’

I enjoy your news and find it a refreshing alternative to the dumbed-down news I get through the mainstream.

I find your discussions on the two judges and Fistgate to be extremely disturbing and provocative. I do not hate homosexuals but I do not wish to see their lifestyle legitimized through the institution of marriage.

A fundamental issue is at stake in their argument and that is “choice.” Their lifestyle is a choice, although many will have you believe it is genetic or inborn in some fashion.

I used to work in the business of child welfare and saw, both there and in my personal experience, how terrible exposure to the gay lifestyle can be. I’ve also witnessed first hand the horrors of severe sexual abuse of children. I do not and would not suggest that gay people are sex offenders of children as well. Nonetheless, sex offenders are often evidenced to live excessive, prurient lifestyles, which can include homosexuality.

Those who believe their gay lifestyle is all right are very politically motivated and, in my personal and professional opinion, sick. This is in part because they aren’t consumed with the responsibilities of family life. Also, if there wasn’t anything wrong with their lifestyle, why does it have to be so militantly justified?

Richard C.
Southeastern MA

Press Excludes Info on Molester

In just 48 hours, the press has started censoring the fact that Reardon was a Boy Scout leader while leaving in that he was a youth minister and swim coach. 

Name Withheld

Globe Cheerleads for Homosexuals

How refreshing it is to receive my monthly edition of the Massachusetts News. As parents of young children, my wife and I are grateful that at least one newspaper can be relied upon to print the truth about matters affecting families. The Boston Globe has become little more than a cheerleading forum for militant homosexual activists, many of whom write for that paper.

Please keep up the good work, and please do a series on the importance of maintaining English as the primary language of our nation. My own belief is that immigrants to this country should be encouraged to learn English. I see too many Spanish signs everywhere I go, and I resent having to pay taxpayer dollars for interpreters in courts and other public agencies.  It is a very disturbing trend that could result in serious problems in miscommunication unless we stop the enabling process of allowing immigrants to demand that we learn their tongue.

Jim Sullivan
Norwood

Satanic Bible Supports Homosexuality

It appears to be a little known fact by most and hidden by those who know, that homosexual sexual acts have a religious support.

No, not the Judeo-Christian religion, but the other end of the religious spectrum: Satanism. Following is a quote from the satanic bible (the chapter on Satanic Sex in “The Book of Lucifer (Air).” Avon Books: New York, 1969).

 “Satanism condones any type of sexual activity, which properly satisfies your individual desires — be it heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, or even asexual, if you choose. Satanism also sanctions any fetish or deviation, which will enhance your sex life, so long as it involves no one who does not wish to be involved.”

 (Note: the sentiment expressed, “...so long as it involves no one who does not wish to be involved” is overridden by several statements that a Satanist is encouraged to do whatever is necessary to do whatever he/she wants to do, including taking the life of anyone who gets in the way.)

Richard W. Faircloth
Anchorage, AK

Men Should Imitate Jesus

I believe there is something wrong with men: the sin in their lives. What boys need to learn is not to be more like women but to be more like Jesus Christ. This will solve the problems that exist.

Barbara Whooley
Brookline

DSS Routinely Ignores Judges

Do you know that your tax dollars are being misused by the Massachusetts Department of Social Services agency every day?

Are you divorced with children and not satisfied with the judge’s decision regarding your children and the custody agreement that has been given to you? Not to worry, the judges’ rulings can be overturned by the DSS:

1. Call the DSS and falsely accuse your “ex” of abuse and neglect.

2. Care and protection for your children starts immediately.

3. Your children are taken. Alimony payments stop.

4. Your children are fed, clothed and have medical coverage.

5. They’re moved from foster home to foster home (this treatment is considered protection).

6. They’re enrolled in many different schools throughout a one-year period.

This meets the criteria for “the best interest of the children,” and can be effected without proof of abuse and neglect, or even cash out of your pocket. The state appoints attorneys, counselors, psychologists and pays them with tax dollars.

The Department of Social Services has been granted way too much power, policing themselves without anyone overseeing their actions.

The judges have grown accustomed to seeing this agency making decisions. They think the DSS is the expert at childcare.

The judges had better look a lot more closely at what this agency is about.

For comments or further information regarding the incompetence and arrogance of DSS, specifically in the Attleboro area, write to: PO Box 556, Rehoboth, MA 02760.

Lucille Amaral
Rehoboth

Women-Church Mocks Catholicism

If the aging feminists of Women-Church actually believe that a token number of advertisements will promote female ordination, then they are as clueless as their cause is hopeless (Boston Herald, Mass. group abroad lobbies for female priests, 7/1/2001).

Women-Church forgets that you not only have to be a man to be a priest, you have to be a Catholic. Their contempt for Church authority, their rejection of Catholic doctrine and their disrespect for tradition all make a mockery of their pretensions to Catholicism.

The ethos of Catholicism is piety, humility and contrition, not neo-paganism, ambition and gender equality.

C. J. Doyle
Boston

MassNews Helps in “Gulagachusetts”

Thank you for your excellent reporting, Mr. Lovelace. I am going to post your piece on bills to our fathers’ website. Of course we are waiting to see how the committee reported on the shared parenting and 209a reform bills.

I will be moving to Maine soon but will miss being a part of the struggles here in Gulagachusetts. I wish I could start a paper like the MassNews in Maine, but I haven’t the funds or expertise.

Keep up the great work. It is a shame that more Christians in this Commonwealth do not go to Beacon Hill to stand up to the wickedness that is foisted upon us, as well as the attempts to purge God’s Law from our lives.

The liberal and non-biblical religious groups certainly are organized to force their agenda upon us, as is evident from the reporting done by MN.

Walter Skold

Letter Was Example of Confusion Over Gun Laws

P. Hogan, one of last month’s letter writers, was confused about the gun control laws in the Commonwealth as they were “applied” by the Concord Police Department to its citizen, Alec Costerus, even though Hogan is a civilian dispatcher for a police department.

“Welcome aboard” is all I have to say.

“We should follow the laws that we have until we can change them through the process that our forefathers started,” says writer Hogan. Does Hogan mean the taking up of arms to overthrow a corrupt tyrannical domestic government, by the right to keep and bear arms in defense of life and liberty, or is there some other process Hogan was talking of?

Hogan of Norwood is correct that the lawful-citizen gun control laws in Massachusetts are very confounding. But after having read his letter, I am perplexed and distraught over the fact that even a civilian police dispatcher can be confused over the simple understanding of the Massachusetts lawful-citizen gun control laws. How will these laws do anything to reduce the criminal misuse of firearms?

Don Schwarz
Stoughton

Disturbed to See Infant in Jar

Jean and Michael Morrisey have been advocating for the rights of parents who have suffered the tragedy of stillbirth or miscarriage. The Morriseys are responding to the story from Braintree where a “fetus” was found in a jar on the dresser of an alleged cultist.

We find it very disturbing to see this human form of an infant placed in a specimen jar on display in front of a media circus. The infant deserves respect and dignity and we would like to see it receive a proper burial, and given the respect of a name. We’ve been told by the Braintree Police that this unborn infant is an eighty-year-old “museum piece.”  If this is the full story, it seems that not much has really changed in eighty years.

We want to reiterate that under Mass General Law, Chapter 111, Section 202, the hospital has to give its full policy in writing to the parents before any disposal or research can take place. This would include information about whether the unborn infant will be stored in a jar of formaldehyde for any lengthy period and whether alleged cultists can simply walk in and help themselves to this stillborn child.

We have also requested that the Braintree police or the Massachusetts court turn the stillborn infant over to a registered funeral director for a proper burial that we will underwrite upon release.  Again, we would also like to see the stillborn infant be given the respect of a proper name: Girl - Angelina Grace, Boy - Gabriel Jeremiah.

Jean Morrisey
Michael Morrisey

Social Security Plan Unbalanced

Our senators and congressmen do not pay into or collect from social security; these benefits are not suitable for persons of their rare elevation in society. When they retire, they continue to draw the same pay until they die, excepting cost-of-living increase adjustments. Senator Robert Byrd and Congressmen Bob White expect to draw $7,900,000, with their wives drawing $275,000, during the last years of their lives.

Their cost for this excellent plan is zero. This little perk they voted in for themselves is free. You and I pick up the tab for this plan that they made up for themselves because it’s paid by the general funds – our tax dollars.

We pay for their salaries and retirement every hour that we work. We can expect to collect $1000/mo. from our Social Security plans. This means we’d need to collect benefits for over 68 years to equal retired Senator Bradley’s benefits! Let’s put them in the same plan we little folks have and see how fast they fix it.                

Eric C. Adams

Closing Base Not Best Solution for Cape

Despite liberal media efforts to frighten Massachusetts’s citizens regarding water quality and availability on the Mass Military Reservation, certain facts are indisputable. Everyone on Cape Cod desires the best quality water available for their families, and our Constitution requires the Commonwealth to provide an Army National Guard (ANG) that is trained and ready to assist our citizens in times of natural disaster (such as hurricanes, earthquakes or forest fires) and protect us from rioters, terrorists or foreign invaders who have chemical or biological weapons or bombs.

There is an ongoing commitment to remediation efforts in response mainly to damage incurred on the southern 5,000 acres of the Massachusetts Military Reservation, which is occupied by the Air Force National Guard and Coast Guard. Three of the four Upper Cape towns (Sandwich, Mashpee and Bourne) have no water shortage. Falmouth, which has a building cap on homes, would be better served by dealing with well problems locally. According to the USGS (United States Geological Survey) input, the Upper Cape uses 1.6% of its available water. Wells that had been discounted are back in service.

The Army National Guard at Camp Edwards requires and deserves adequate training in order to prepare for a myriad of assigned tasks all over the world for which they have predominant responsibility (over 50%). This training includes responsible environmental stewardship, with documentation and encouragement of all discerned species. The ANG has met 98% of recommended training alterations. Further changes would jeopardize the safety and well being of ANG personnel. There is no other place in New England where this training is feasible. To suggest it could be accomplished on the southern 5,000 acres is ridiculous because there is no room.

There is a lease agreement between the Commonwealth and the Department of the Army that permits ANG training until 2026. The people who donated the land in question specifically mentioned it be used for this purpose. The previous governor, by executive order (thus bypassing the legislature and ignoring the lease), attempted to wrest control of Camp Edwards from the military. Legislation was then attempted to transfer control of Camp Edwards from the ANG to 3 environmental agencies, Department of Environmental Management (DEM), Massachusetts District Commission (MDC), and the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife (DFWL), as well as companion legislation to establish a water cooperative on the Upper Cape. The potential for diversion of water from the Cape in this scenario with the assistance of an agency similar to the Mass. Water Resources Authority (MWRA) is clear.

The economic impact of the loss of the ANG to the Commonwealth is significant. The loss of 1500 jobs and accompanying payroll on the heels of other job losses, as well as the loss of all the volunteer community services performed by Guard members all over Massachusetts, would be tragic. It is time for the citizens all over the Commonwealth to contact their legislators and express their support for a continuation of ANG control and training at Camp Edwards and the defeat of House Bill #3579, which would force the Guard to leave and eventually lead to the loss of the Air National Guard and Coast Guard as well.

Patricia Stewart
North Eastham

Editor’s Comment: The state has decided that the base will stay open, but this letter provides information our readers may value.

Boston’s Power-Grab for Water on Cape

I’ve been involved in this fight for about three years. It is an environmentalist power grab that has no factual foundation. The Cape Cod Times helped orchestrate this whole controversy and was hoping to win a Pulitzer for its series. I was the Republican challenger to Congressman Delahunt in both the 1998 and 2000 elections. I enjoyed an appointment to the Reagan Defense Department and am currently under consideration for a presidential appointment in this Defense Department.

Throughout my long political and government experience I have learned to be very suspicious of what politicians say. I am even more wary of what politicians do not say, and I would like to remark today on what is not being said about the Cape Cod Aquifer.

First, we know that if the population on the Cape triples in the next twenty years and we draw three times the amount of water that is being taken today we can expect our aquifer to drop by eleven inches. Understand that the aquifer rises sixty-five to seventy feet above sea level and averages 190 feet deep on the upper Cape. Currently, we use less than 1% of our annual rainfall. There is no shortage.

Additionally, we know that the towns across the Cape and throughout Massachusetts have far higher levels of contamination than the water supply under the Northern 15,000 acres of the reservation. This water supply is in fact the most pristine large water supply in eastern Massachusetts.

Second, we must question this alliance between our Republican Governor and our Democratic Congressman to push the military aside or off the reservation and put the control of our water under a board that is entirely controlled by the Governor’s Metropolitan Boston appointees. These politicians want the Military to supply 3 M gallons a day even though there is no need that cannot be met by the Cape towns themselves. Congressman Delahunt’s spokesman, Mark Forest, recently demanded that the military supply 10 million gallons a day even though there has never been a need identified on the Cape.

Let us not forget that while Mr. Delahunt continues to wear his Cape Cod Tie he will no longer be looking for any votes on the Cape as we will most likely be gerrymandered out of his Congressional District in 2002. If our congressman double-crosses us, there will be no penalty to pay and in fact he will become the hero to those off-Cape who get our water.

Third, Metropolitan Boston is reportedly facing a serious water shortage by the year 2020. Let us not forget that our Metro-neighbors are currently spending more than fourteen and a half billion dollars on its “Big Dig”. Most of this money is coming out of the federal treasury and I believe that our politicians have learned their lessons well.

I have to believe that what is not being said, and this is my warning to you, is that when the Governor and Mr. Delahunt succeed in tapping and controlling the Cape Cod Aquifer, it will no longer be the Cape’s water supply but we will find ourselves sharing the new Metropolitan Boston Aquifer that will be supplying ten million gallons a day and, like the “Big Dig”, its cost will have pilfered from the federal treasury.

I leave you with one question. Where is it written that under no circumstances will this water be pumped off Cape Cod? As I mentioned, I am even more wary of what politicians do not say.

Eric Bliecken
South Yarmouth

Students Weigh In From Gay/Straight Alliances

Schools Do Not Recruit Homosexuals

I am writing in response to the story entitled “Mass. Schools Worse Than Dartmouth,” which I read on the Internet. While I respect your opinion and your freedom to express it, I wanted to clarify a few things that I think you misunderstood.

First of all, in response to your query “If a girl wishes to be promiscuous, when did the feminists decide that this was forbidden?” From what I can tell, you believe that the “feminist” Globe is being hypocritical in its condemnation of the fraternity members. Well, let me explain that to you. The issue here is not whether young women, or men, wish to be promiscuous. The issue is a violation of privacy. If a young woman wants to sleep with lots of men, if she finds it enjoyable, that is fine. As far as I know, no one took any issue with that fact. However, the problem arose when the fraternity published the names of those girls, without consent. The names were published as a sort of “yellow pages.” This could easily result in many unwanted encounters, sexual harassment and even rape. Statistics have shown that a woman is more likely to be raped if the perpetrator knows that she has had sexual experiences before, with him or others. This is exactly what the list did. It detailed the young women who had multiple sexual experiences. That is the issue, not anyone’s promiscuity.

Now, for my second point. A recurring theme that I find in many of your articles is that of the young gay teenager being paraded around to lurking pedophiles and of the Massachusetts schools leading students into the terrible “homosexual lifestyle.” Now, I don’t know where you get your information but I can tell you that the facts you have are wrong. Purely, simply, wrong.

The reason that I know this is that I am an 18 year-old lesbian. I recently graduated from the Boston Public School system. I have been an activist and have taken part in the Youth Pride March every year for the past three years. I spoke at the Safe Schools kick off event last year. In fact, the year of the controversy over the safe sex workshop at the GLSEN conference (termed “Fistgate” by MassNews, which is quite possibly the most offensive term I’ve ever heard) I was leading a different workshop. (My workshop was about the benefits of a safe space for gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender youth.) Moreover, the previous year at the GLSEN conference, I attended the safe sex workshop, so I know that it is not the horror story you make it out to be.

However, back to my point. The public schools did not force me into, or even start me thinking about, my sexual orientation. I first thought that I might be a lesbian during my sixth grade year at my parochial elementary school. In tenth grade, when I finally came out to myself (after a good deal of soul-searching), I joined the gay/straight alliance in my public high school, Boston Latin High School. It was there that I found my first community of GLBT people, and first found a supportive environment. At no point did I feel unsafe. At no point did anyone encourage me to become sexually active with anyone, never mind adults. Indeed, all the GSA did for me was to give me a safe space to express my feelings and insecurities, and gave me supportive people to turn to.

Right now, I defy every stereotype of the “typical” gay person that your publication promotes. I have a healthy relationship with my parents and siblings. I have a girlfriend, only a year older than I am, whom I have been dating for almost two years. Our relationship is strong and healthy, more so than any straight teenage relationship that I’ve seen. Right now, the only thing that’s hurting me about being gay are the hateful things said about me in places like this newspaper.

Andrea Carney
Boston

Editor’s Comment: Thanks for your letter. It was very interesting. The only part that was unfair was at the very end where you generalize about the “hateful things” that have been said in this newspaper. However, you will be unable to point to anything “hateful” that has ever been said in this newspaper.

Your first point about “promiscuous” girls is interesting. However, you missed the point of our editorial. How can we assume that these girls were unhappy with the publicity? Maybe it gave them many more men to choose from. Why does the student who publicized it, Mellissa Heaton or you, believe that the women are unhappy? Obviously these women enjoy men although Mellissa and you may not. In addition, Mellissa apparently made these women much more notorious than the fraternity boys ever did.

Your second issue about the schools of Massachusetts appears to make our point. You “finally came out” to yourself when you joined a gay/straight alliance in Boston Latin school. If that alliance had not been there with its “supportive environment,” would you have thought about it a little more before “coming out?” Let me put it to you this way. I have friends who smoke cigarettes. I don’t understand why they do. But they do. Should we have a club in the schools with a “supportive environment” for students who smoke cigarettes? Why not? Is it because such a club would inexorably encourage the students to accept this lifestyle? Who has decided that smoking is bad for teenagers and homosexuality is good and should be encouraged?

I’m sorry to hear that you don’t like men. Maybe you ought to give us another try.

Cartoon Assumes ‘Human Culture’ Undifferentiated

I am compelled to comment on the culturally ignorant cartoon you presently feature on your Web site. In it a judge is disposing of a book entitled “Human Culture”. Although a simple caption on a small graphic, it speaks volumes. The author, and by association your editorial board, shows a complete lack of knowledge of humans or their culture.

By presenting this image, you pretend to know that all humans have the same culture, that this culture is immutable and, worse, that it is correct as it stands. Your cultural elitism prevents you from acknowledging that all of human culture was decided by humans, and that the term “human” encompasses every culture and every human. In this large and varied world there are many different societies with many different laws. Some have long recognized the innate homosexuality of some humans, and others have not. Some cultures indeed have even honored homosexuals.

What homosexual Americans would like to see is equal protection and equal rights under the law, not “special” rights and privileges as your radical right cronies would suggest. And yes, to answer your snide cartoon author, this is what the courts are for: to debate the issues of society and set precedence for law. What else!

Darren Bennett
Boston

Editor’s Comment: We agree that all humans do not have the same culture. Our ancestors made the trip to America because they also knew that. Our culture is the envy of the world. Why should we change it? If it is changed, it should be done by the people, not by lawyers and judges.

‘Inflammatory’ to Suggest GSA Attracts Pedophiles

Once again, through your words “not everyone who works for the Gay/Straight Alliance program is a pedophile,” you are implying that most who work or volunteer for this organization are pedophiles. You could say the same thing about teachers, medical professionals, ministers and police officers, yet you don’t. This is a typical inflammatory statement.

Why is your newspaper so concerned with sex? It doesn’t seem to matter what kind of sex, MN reported on it. Aren’t there other things out there in the world that make news? The lives of gay and lesbian friends I have no more revolve completely around sex than do the lives of my husband, our heterosexual friends and myself. The Boston Globe article in reference was in agreement as to the guilt and guilty plea of the pedophile you mentioned, who happened to be a married man leading a children’s ministry.  

Michele Sheridan
Chatham

Editor’s Comment: But we do say exactly the same thing about heterosexual men. They should not, and are not, permitted to lead Girl Scouts. The reason we are so concerned about sex is because that is what the Boston Globe is talking about in every issue. Someone must tell the opposite side, or don’t you believe in hearing both sides?

Bible Advocates Child Abuse

In all the times I’ve seen your “journal” complain about the “homosexual agenda” preying on young children, I’ve noticed a serious absence. There is nothing about the fact that the Bible does much worse. It advocates child abuse, child sacrifice, sexual congress with children, incest, animal abuse, slavery, genocide, violence against pregnant women, female slavery. I would like to know why a bunch of people who are so indignant about the “blindness” of “mainstream, pro-homosexual” media don’t mention the filth contained, applauded and condoned in this “Bible?”

I’m working under the assumption that you are a bunch of hypocrites, and not intelligent ones at that. If this is not true, I look forward to your explanation.

Scott Summers

Editor’s Comment: I can’t imagine what Bible you read. The Old Testament tells about all the foibles of mankind, but it does not condone, much less approve them anywhere.

Mass News “Paranoid” About Feminism, Gay Rights

I disagree strongly with most of the views espoused in your newspaper. I believe that articles such as these promote hate and intolerance. Your obsession with and fear of gay rights and feminism borders on the bizarre. Surely there are better ways to expend your energies. What are you “for”? The newspaper leaves me feeling that you are only “against” issues, and it really comes across as paranoid.

Deborah Wood
North Attleboro

Editor’s Comment: We are “for” the values that America has always espoused since its founding.

Editorial Responses Unjustified

I find it quite amusing that the only letters you seem to attach an “editorial response” to are the ones that don’t agree with your closed minded and ignorant views.

What’s the matter? Can’t you just accept a little criticism and just go on without adding your two cents in? These letters are responses to what people have read in your paper. You’ve already had your say.

Unless there are errors that need corrections in these letters, suck it up and move on.

R. DiGiovanni

Editor’s Comment: But there are errors in the letters or else we wouldn’t comment. We would like to see a dialogue in Massachusetts. If any writer wishes to disagree with how we respond, he is most welcome and encouraged to write again.

Animals Offered More Protection Than Gays

A justice is assigned due to experience and wisdom. These ladies [Chief Justice Margaret Marshall and Suzanne DelVecchio, who have already indicated they support the suit for gay marriage which is presently before their courts] have seen that gays and lesbians are equal and should have the same rights that straight men and women have. There is no injustice in these laws, they do not violate God’s laws as some so flagrantly yell, but the old laws do violate a basic right for two people in love to be able to have the same rights as others.

In a nation that so vehemently cries equality under the law, gays and lesbians have few or no rights at all. I am recently from North Carolina moved to the mid-west. I was denied promotions because I was gay, was spit on in public because I was gay, and was called various crude and uncalled for names because I was gay. People who associated with me were mocked and lied about because of my sexual orientation. My family was torn apart because of me. Thank God they are now behind me full force.

We are not animals, not slaves, not property to be abused and ignored. Even animals have rights under the law, but most states do not have protection against prejudice in the workplace or even for holding hands. (North Carolina police harassed me one time in my own yard for holding my companion’s hand. I was told next time I would be arrested and thrown in jail, something a man and woman would never have been told).

My examples are extreme to say the least. Coming from an area where prejudice is still strong may not be the best place for a gay couple to live, but seeing your article on the justices makes me wonder if we have changed our attitudes at all. Many cry to God’s justice when attacking gays, but yet I am a Christian and study the Bible as well. I do not see their claims in it, and yes some say I am blind. Whether or not this is true I don’t know. However, I do know that these ladies have seen what they feel is an injustice and have acted upon it.

These ladies have made their point and stand by it. Now they are subject of the same attacks that I have been. Allow them the right to dispense justice fairly, not just from the point of view that some feel is right.

Michael Mitchell

Editor’s Comment: What you say happened to you was terrible. No responsible person approves that kind of conduct, particularly we at Massachusetts News. But I can also assure you that no one can go anywhere and say anything they want. If a heterosexual went into a gay bar and started insulting all gays, should he expect trouble?  We all must be prudent in what we do.

Let the Youth Decide

Run for your lives! “The Feminists” are coming, usurping our government and joining with GLSEN to warp the minds of our children and turn them into horrid, lustful freaks! Any day now we can expect to see the Feminist Jacobin Movement storming the Bastille of the State House, their gay and lesbian counterparts replacing Old Glory with pink triangles and rainbow flags. Massachusetts and San Francisco will declare autonomy and a war will be at hand. Feminists will persecute us, castrating ministers; homosexual sodomists will use the Boy Scouts as a vessel for perpetuating their sick desires, and Anarchists and CommuNazis will file in by the thousands. Get out of this state while you can! Run to Kentucky!

Pfft. Come on people, let’s get a grip here. This isn’t a war on morality; it’s a forceful request to be recognized as first-class human beings. Why forceful? Because nobody seems to listen to the polite requests. I’m not going to rant on like many other opponents of your paper do, but your editor said himself that gays are not portrayed as “bad” people in your articles. And yet you say you are protecting the children -- from good people?

Perhaps you mean from the dangers of homosexual relationships. Granted, there is a point to that, but most dangers involved in homosexual intercourse can also be brought about by heterosexual intercourse.

Why not give fair, unbiased information to our children about all types of sexual activity, including pros and cons and just straight facts. You can’t force a teenager to think a certain way, and trying to will only inspire rebellion. If you fancy yourself such good, caring parents, give the youth a bit of trust; give them the facts and let them decide for themselves. After all, you’re not going to be looking over their shoulders forever.

Rob Cannata Jr.
Freetown

Editor’s Comment: You are repeating exactly what we have always said. Give the students all the facts, not just those that glamorize the gay lifestyle. It is not we who are saying that all homosexuals are bad people. It is the establishment that is saying that no homosexual is ever a bad person, they are all good. We realize that is not true of any group of people.

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