Posted on 11/19/2002 9:00:37 AM PST by Buffalo Bob
GLAD, the group that's trying to impose gay marriage on Massachusetts, has announced that 88 law professors and 67 organizations are supporting their lawsuit. But a quick glance shows that this just more hype on the part of these Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders.
The truth was revealed in a Bay Windows editorial in August which said that many in the movement were disappointed to discover that homosexuals activists really are not interested in marriage. They showed that it is the extreme feminists who are pushing the effort for gay marriage. The feminists are doing so because they believe that the institution of marriage is damaging to women and therefore they wish to diminish it as an institution in any way possible.
For example, the 88 professors are drawn from around the entire world. There are only 21 listed from the 8 schools in Massachusetts. This is not an impressive showing. In fact, it is downright embarrassing. Northeastern University School of Law (3) Suffolk University Law School (5) Boston University School of Law (4) Boston College Law School (2) Western New England College School of Law (3) New England School of Law (1) Harvard University (2) Harvard Law School (1).
The 67 organizations that favor gay marriage are the usual suspects. They come from extreme feminist organizations and homosexual activist groups. They are the same old ones who have been battling the Protection of Marriage Amendment, sometimes fairly and sometimes unfairly, sometimes legally and sometimes not.
They include at least 27 groups of homosexual activists. Many of these groups are very obscure and it is difficult to tell for sure if they are homosexual organizations, but unless they are definitely homosexual, they are not counted as a part of this list of 27 groups. LAMBDA Legal Defense & Education Fund National Center for Lesbian Rights DignityUSA Dignity Boston Keshet Religious Coalition for the Freedom to Marry Coalition gaie et lesbienne du Quebec EGALE Canada, Inc. ILGA ILGA-Europe ILGA-North America International Lesbian and Gay Law Ass'n Japan Ass'n for the Lesbian & Gay Movement Lesbian & Gay Equality Project Lesbian & Gay Legal Equality Pink Cross Rechtskomitee Freedom to Marry Coalition Freedom to Marry Foundation The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Political Alliance of Western MA The MA Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom Freedom to Marry Collaborative Human Rights Campaign National Gay & Lesbian Task Force PridePlanners Ass'n
There is a small number of the usual list of "churches" which include goddesses and pagans and the omnipresent Unitarians. Unitarian Universalist Ass'n Unitarian Universalist Ministers Ass'n MA Bay District Chapter United Church of Christ Coalition of LGBT Concerns United Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches (a homosexual organization) Covenant of the Goddess Church of the Sacred Earth: A Union of Pagan Congregations
There are 8 feminist groups. Women's Bar Ass'n of MA MA NOW MA Black Women Attorneys National Ass'n of Women Lawyers National Organization for Women Foundation, Inc. Northwest Women's Law Center NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund National Council of Jewish Women
There are 4 human rights organizations. Federation internationale des ligues des Droits de l'Homme Human Rights Watch Inter-American Center for Human Rights Interights
There are 7 social science/therapy groups. MA Psychiatric Society American Psychoanalytic Ass'n National Ass'n of Social Workers MA Chapter of the National Ass'n of Social Workers Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Inc. MA Ass'n for Psychoanalytic Psychology The Gottman Institute
This leaves the ACLU, which has played dirty and violated the Constitutional rights of the supporters of the Protection of Marriage Amendment many times in the last year. American Civil Liberties Union of MA ACLU Foundation
Other feminist/liberal organizations who are friends of the ACLU. Urban League of Eastern MA National Lawyers Guild, MA Chapter Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Ass'n Greater Boston Civil Rights Coalition Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston People for the American Way Foundation
The obscure groups are the following. Asian American Legal Defense & Educational Fund Community Change, Inc. Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Jewish Alliance for Law & Social Action The Jewish Reconstructionist Federation
1) God
A sect similar to the Unitarians, but without the "goddess" stuff and some of the singing is in Hebrew. They perform "gay marriages" all the time. Not a large group, even in New York or California, but with congregations in many big cities.
Jesus came into the world to forgive sin,
not to tolerate it.
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