Chief Justices Have Already Decided Case

July 2001

Chief Justice Suzanne DelVecchio of the Superior Court attended a meeting of the Massachusetts Lesbian & Gay Bar Association last year. She told the group that she favors homosexual marriage. She said: "Vermont recognizes same-sex couples. And here we are in Massachusetts. Would you please? It's embarrassing. Could we get with the program a little bit? ... The only way gays and lesbians in this state are going to achieve what has been achieved in Vermont is to say who you are, apply for the [important] jobs and demand to be seated at the table ... Nothing is easy. Do you think getting my hair this color is easy?" The suit to legalize gay marriage has been filed in the Superior Court of which she is Chief Justice.

Chief Justice Margaret Marshall has also indicated in many ways that she favors the suit. She even gives state and federal money to the lawyers who brought the suit. She gives millions of dollars each year to different organizations who help "the poor." It is a very subjective decision. When she gives money, she is putting her imprimatur on every organization which receives such money from her. She is telling the world and the judges beneath her that that organization represents the poor and the downtrodden. Every judge in the state is aware of the organizations which receive this benefit from their Chief.

One of the organizations which receives money from Justice Marshall is Atty. Mary Bonauto and GLAD which brought the suit in Vermont and has now brought a suit in Massachusetts. Every judge knows that his or her boss has a bias in favor of GLAD.

Both Justices Marshall and DelVecchio were distinguished guests at the Annual Gala of the Women's Bar Association last fall which honored Bonauto. Also, they were both lauded this year at the annual meeting of the Mass. Lesbian and Gay Bar Association in April according to a report by that organization. It said that at their Gala in 1999, "Then-Associate Justice Marshall described new constitutional freedoms for homosexuals in South Africa and exhorted those in attendance" to do likewise in this country. It said this about Judge DelVecchio, "In her remarks last year, DelVecchio had challenged those in attendance to pursue marital rights for all citizens of the Commonwealth, noting that we should not be taking a back seat to Vermont, 'a state best known for exporting rocks.'"

Bonauto is also the lawyer who obtained the unconstitutional gag order against the whistleblowing parents who revealed what occurred at Fistgate last year. She has received unwavering support from Judge Allen van Gestel of the Superior Court in that suit, including his infamous gag order about which the entire country laughed uproariously until he lifted it against everyone except the two poor parents. All the pieces seem to be fitting together as we see what happens when this friend of the mighty, Mary Bonauto, takes a case to the Massachusetts courts.

Even the Boston Globe reported after Bonauto filed her suit for homosexual marriage in Massachusetts, "Those seeking the change said they hope the case will end up in the Supreme Judicial Court ..."