January 2002

All of the 110,000 people who signed the ballot petition for marriage are like the Taliban, says a Boston Herald columnist.

Apparently no one has told her that 60% of the people in the state favor the measure. She believes they’re all like the Taliban.

It’s apparent that columnist Margery Eagan isn’t part of the mainstream here in Massachusetts.

She’s identified herself as part of the fringe in the Bay State. She’s joined those at the Globe who favor making this an ugly, divisive fight. There will be no factual discussions with Eagan, just nasty, personal attacks.

She wrote, “Maybe once Bryan [Rudnick] and his pals get through regulating whom and how to love here in the alleged Athens of America, he can move on to regimenting men’s hair and beard styles, banning bare midriffs or, what the heck, go whole hog and bring on the burqa.”

She is certain that all the signers and supporters of the Amendment have nothing better to do with their lives than look at homosexual pornography.

“[The group] has collected 110,000 signatures,” she wrote, “more than enough to put the question before voters and so ensure a bitter political debate about gay and lesbian rights. Then we’ll be back to where we were a decade ago when state legislators, prior to passing the Gay Rights Bill, distinguished themselves by passing around dog-eared, well-worn and exceedingly well-studied pamphlets depicting homosexuals in action.”

But the saddest thing is that she really believes she is superior to everyone else. She thinks that everyone who knows and likes a homosexual is automatically against the amendment. She even believes that all homosexuals are against it. She obviously does not have a very wide or diverse circle of friends. That’s really sad, Margery.

As for those three kids down in New Bedford about whom Eagan is so gleeful (she thinks that their tragedy somehow gives her a boost), would someone please tell her that all of those children were living with single mothers. Not one of them was living with their father. At least one of them was very angry about it.

Thanks for mentioning it, Margery, and reminding us that every child, without exception, does better with a mother and a father.