Mass. Feminists Ecstatic About Decline in Marriage

Feminists are ecstatic about the new census figures showing that the number of families with a mother and a father is way down. They are anxious to drive the last nails into the coffin of traditional families and redefine the word "family."

Emily Rooney of WGBH cited the numbers to Atty. Dwight Duncan on a show about the Protection of Marriage Act. She inquired whether the new census showed that families with a mother and a father are becoming extinct and not worth saving.

Eileen McNamara of the Globe put forth the classic feminist dogma this way: "Last week, chest thumping proponents of a 'Protection of Marriage Act' for Massachusetts were insisting that home and hearth are under siege because homosexuals want to get married."

That's obviously not the reason that most people believe that marriage is under siege. It's under siege because feminists like McNamara have been striving for that for the last forty years.

Most people believe that the number of families headed by a single mother (or father) are a sign of trouble for our society and a reason for the social problems we see. But for the feminists, it's a cause for celebration. 

Mass. Courts Are Infamous  

Massachusetts is becoming famous as a place where justice no longer exists. In an upcoming issue of Insight magazine, Dr. Stephen Baskerville of Howard University relates the horrors of our courts. In his article about family courts around the world being unfair to fathers, he begins by talking about two stories that originated on the pages of Massachusetts News.

He wrote, "In Massachusetts a mother is told to divorce her husband or officers of the state will take away her children, and they do. Also in Massachusetts a father who opposes judicial wrongdoing is dragged from his car, assaulted by what appear to be plainclothes police and told to stop making trouble if he wants to see his son again."

The first case Baskerville refers to is the Howard family about which we are still writing in this issue and the second case is about Zed McLarnen who is still fighting the apparent criminal acts committed against him by the Middlesex Probate Court.

Yet the Supreme Court of Massachusetts (SJC) and the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations continue their indifference to the plight of people in their courts.

Boston Magazine In Favor of Man/Boy Sex

Boston magazine printed a glowing story in approval of man/boy sex last month. The article is a long and "intellectual" history of NAMBLA, which has been sued by the Cambridge parents of 10-year-old Jeffrey Curley who was killed by two homosexuals. The magazine approved this statement: "NAMBLA has become the acceptable symbol to blame for a lot of what has gone wrong morally in America over the last 20 years."

The article told about a documentary video that NAMBLA started but didn't finish. The author said, "It was a rare chance to show the world that they [the lovers of boys] weren't nearly as despicable as people made them out to be."

It noted the nation's reaction after the American Psychological Association published a study which claimed that pedophilia can be good for children and that we must eliminate "judgmental terms" such as "child abuse," "molestation," and victims. The study said we should use value-free terms like "adult-child sex."

Boston magazine printed a retort from one of the authors of the APA study about the outcry over his study. "I think it goes to the heart of the extent of America's current insane moral panic."

Natalie Jacobsen Leads Liberals to Nastiness

A group of liberals were at their nastiest when they compared Speaker Finneran to Hitler and the devil at a fundraiser for Improv Boston, according to the Boston Globe. Natalie Jacobsen set the tone as Master of Ceremonies when she announced that Finneran would not make it because he had to attend his weekly meeting with the devil. During the skits it was announced that Finneran had been considered for the role of Hitler in a Broadway show but Mel Brooks had rejected him because he "would have had to tone him down."

Among the performers, according to the Globe, were Mayor Menino, Congressmen McGovern, Delahunt and Meehan, plus Robert Reich and Doris Kearns Goodwin. From the world of business, Chad Gifford, Jack Connors and Joe O'Donnell frolicked.

Are these the people who wish to restore civility and bi-partisanship to politics?

Globe Columnist Scott Lehigh Wins 'Nasty Award'

When Scott Lehigh was reporting an event he did not like at the State House, he went past the gutter and into the sewer last month. There is a black, woman medical doctor, Mildred Jefferson, who has been involved in pro-life causes for years. One of her methods has been to run for political office as a means of projecting her message. She knew she didn't have a chance of winning. After all, how many black women do you know who are in the U.S. Senate? Here's the comment that Lehigh wrote about Dr. Jefferson. "You know how offbeat things got when it seemed a positive relief to spot conservative activist Mildred Fay Jefferson. Jefferson is Massachusetts' own Harold Stassen. She has run - and failed to make the ballot - in more races than most political hopefuls ever dare contemplate. On this day, Jefferson was true to ineffectual form."

Who is this Scott Lehigh? Where does the Globe find such nasty people?

Mothers Under Attack at U.N.

Feminists at the Boston Globe apparently have friends at the United Nations who also favor elimination of the institution of motherhood. The U.N. has told countries they should not maintain "symbols" like Mother's Day because they discriminate against women and promote female stereotypes, according to a report from Fox News.

Armenia was told to combat the stereotype that motherhood is a positive influence. Azerbaijan was told to "combat traditional stereotypes." Colombia was urged to eliminate all sexist stereotypes in the media. German measures which were "aimed at the reconciliation of family and work" were said to "entrench stereotypical expectations."

The United States has not ratified the "Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women." The U.N. recommendations do not yet carry the force of law. But the countries which signed the Convention are pledged to enforce the provisions. Funding and other assistance may rest on their cooperation with the policies.

The U.N. believes that the state should raise the children and all women should be employed. 

Law Professors 'Remove' Politics from Courts ???

How many professors at law schools are Democrats? A letter circulated among them in Massachusetts to put ads in prominent newspapers saying that they want a moratorium on Supreme Court Justices during the entire term of George Bush. They say they are against the "politicization" of the judiciary and they call themselves, "Professors for the Rule of Law." How many Democrats do you think they'll find in Massachusetts? It's good to know they're removing politics from the issue.

Homosexuality Promoted Three Times in Sunday Globe

The Boston Globe is so concerned about losing the war on homosexuality that it placed three large stories in a Sunday edition last month. It's worried because 1) there's rising disagreement about what the schools are teaching and 2) opposition to homosexual "marriage" is obvious to everyone.

• Homosexuality in China. The front page of "Focus" had a large story about "progress" for homosexuals in China with a big 4-column picture. The headline was, "Despite some progress, they are no longer considered mentally ill, being openly [homosexual] can still be perilous."

• Gov. Swift Chided on 'Marriage.' On page 4 of "Focus," an opinion piece excoriated Gov. Swift for not favoring homosexual marriage. The article started with the truth that research shows the importance to children of two-parent families. It then jumped to the untruth that the families in this research included homosexual couples. However, the research was only about mothers and fathers. Other research shows that children who live with two homosexuals do poorly, not well.

• The article said, "And is Swift truly so different from these individuals who seek legal recognition through civil marriage? Like them, she is a working parent, a committed mother, a devoted partner." But that's not true. She is not a partner! She is a wife! The research is clear that there is a difference. This article was deliberately untruthful propaganda. The article was by Jane Scarborough, an Associate Professor of Constitutional Law at Northeastern University's School of Law.

• Film Festival Championed. The front page of "Movies" had a large 4-column story about a homosexual film festival complete with four pictures. "The most impressive" movie was about two teenage boys, one of whom also has sex with a girl in the movie. The Globe story included a large picture of lovemaking, apparently with the girl, thinking that this would assuage the sensibilities of its readers rather than a picture of the two boys. The Globe said that the film "reinvigorates the gay teen drama because it so effectively examines the ambiguity and sexual tension that seem to permeate every phase of adolescent life." The movies are being shown at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

The subject of homosexuality was omnipresent throughout the paper.

Poverty Lawyers Try to Help Child Molester   

The 55-year-old child molester who was removed from a subsidized housing complex for the elderly in Salem last month was helped by "poverty lawyers" who tried to prevent his removal from his mother's apartment.

The lawyers who fought his removal are supported by tax money which is granted by the Supreme Judicial Court to its friends.

"We're going to review our options," Atty. John J. Ford of Neighborhood Legal Services, told the Boston Globe, "and then decide where to go from there." Apparently the lawyers have not given up.

The court's decision against the man was praised by the landlord, the Salem Housing Authority, which was forced to go to court to evict him after Atty. Ford and his lawyers fought his removal from the apartment. Many of the elderly in the complex had expressed concern about the presence of the man, who had served a year in jail for molesting a seven-year-old girl.

 The Legal Services lawyers told the legislature earlier this year that 60% of the people who seek help from them are turned away. The lawyers are seeking to more than double their $7.5 million appropriation from the state this year. If they are so short of cash and personnel, many wonder why they chose to spend so much time representing this man in such a futile and perverse gesture.

'Myths' about Motherhood Cause Women's 'Obsession'

The "myths" of motherhood have caused young women in the United States to be "obsessive" about raising children themselves rather than placing them in daycare centers, said a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in an article in the Boston Globe last month. 

We need more federal daycare centers so that all mothers can be employed and not believe the dangerous "myths," wrote Prof. Kathleen McCartney.

She said we must emulate Italy in this regard and "provide the finest care and education to young children, beginning in infancy" because the mother and father do not do that.

It is only the federal government which can properly instruct and train the children, she argued.

"In sharp contrast [to Italy]," she wrote, "American parents and policy makers have sidestepped the quality question out of a longstanding ambivalence about childcare. There are two reasons for this.

"First, Americans do not believe that child care is a public responsibility, in the way that grade school and higher education are.

"Second, Americans, buoyed by myths about motherhood, are not ready to endorse supports for maternal employment - hence our collective obsession with the American question. Our ambivalence has resulted in deadbeat daycare policies."

Many observers wondered why she didn't use Cuba as her model because she would definitely approve of their regime.

The article was a Globe reaction to a story of a 10-year federal study which found that daycare had bad effects on children. The Globe rushed to counter the news with Letters to the Editor and opinion pieces.

Harvard Has the Money to Change Our Society

The feminists at Harvard's School of Education, who say that American mothers are obsessed, are receiving a lot of federal money to change the schools across the nation.

However, a book by Prof. Christina Hoff Sommers last year exposed how the famous professor at Harvard, Carol Gilligan, used research that was "riddled with errors" and totally unsupported in its alarmist, hysterical claims, to convince the country in the early 1990s that girls were being shortchanged in schools. The false data was used, said Sommers, to push a law through Congress in 1994, the "Gender Equity in Education Act," to help all the girls who were supposedly in trouble. This gave millions of dollars to Prof. Gilligan and other feminists to try to change men by making their sons more like girls through the public schools across the nation.

Then Jane Fonda gave $12.5 million to Gilligan in March to further spread the feminist concepts. The Globe reported, however, that many thought it strange that Gilligan was leaving Harvard and going to New York just when many legitimate sources were demanding the research data about her many remarkable claims.

Psychologist William Pollack at Harvard Medical School has also become famous and wealthy by joining Gilligan's feminist attack on men and boys with his many books.

The belief of the feminists that no woman will be "free" until we eliminate the institution of marriage and child-rearing has been stated many times, but most women still do not know or believe that this is really happening.

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