Corporate Complicity

Some time ago we published a list of companies sponsoring the radical homosexual agenda which we called the Hall of Shame. We began with Massachusetts companies listed as sponsors of local "Pride" celebrations, advertisers in Bay Windows, AIDS Action Committee supporters, etc. Then we began adding national companies.

A few weeks back, we linked to the radical homosexual group Human Rights Campaign's list of their favorite companies.

Now, Robert Knight summarizes this corporate complicity in his article, "The Corporate Curtain: How companies are using 'diversity' policies to silence Christians, promote homosexuality" (Dec. 29, 2005). He includes stories of discrimination against or firing of employees who openly disagree with the promotion of homosexuality in their workplace. Excerpts:

America's corporations are under increasing pressure not only to accommodate homosexuality but to celebrate it and to punish employees who object. Over the past two decades, hundreds of companies have adopted varying degrees of homosexual activism in their official policies. As a result, a growing number of Christians have been disciplined or fired for resisting the trend.

Elizabeth Birch, former president of the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the largest homosexual pressure group, said in 2004 that she was happily surprised that corporations have become "the driving engine" of "gay" activism....

According to the HRC report, "[T]he most significant policy gain in 2005 was the addition of 'gender identity or expression' in corporate non-discrimination policies." This means companies are putting cross-dressing, transgenderism and transsexualism on the same level as race and ethnicity. HRC is going a step further, however, and has announced that companies can earn points in 2006 by paying for sex-change-related operations and hormone injections.

Knight references the book by Alan Sears and Craig Osten, The Homosexual Agenda, which outlines the typical steps followed by the radicals. They write:

Why has corporate America been such an easy target for homosexual activists to push their agenda? One of the main reasons is that the homosexual community has a much higher level of disposable income than most families, and therefore in order to tap that market, many corporations have gone overboard in their willingness to bow to the demands of radical homosexual activists. In addition, homosexual activists, with the aid of the media, have become so adept at demonizing any corporation that does not give in to their agenda that most companies quietly cower at their feet rather than face the public relations wrath of the activists.

"Gays" File Suit to Stop New Marriage Amendment

Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, GLAD, has filed its lawsuit to stop the new Massachusetts marriage amendment dead in its tracks. We predict GLAD will be successful. (It looks like the case will be heard before the state legislature's first possible meeting of its Constitutional Convention -- next May?-- where the amendment would have to pass the first of two legislative votes.)

MassResistance has long warned of such obstructionism, should an amendment be attempted. We're certain that Senate President Travaglini, who sets the dates and agenda of the Constitutional Convention, is in close communication with GLAD on timing issues.

GLAD's press release (Jan. 3, 2006) says they expect the case to be heard in the Spring ... by a "friend" on the Mass. Supreme Judical Court?

Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) today filed a lawsuit to challenge the Attorney General’s decision that a proposed ballot question that would once again exclude same-sex couples from marriage satisfies the Massachusetts constitution.

“The Attorney General simply got it wrong,” said Gary Buseck, GLAD’s Legal Director. “Our state constitution says there can be no citizen-initiated constitutional amendment that `relates to the reversal of a judicial decision.’ This proposed anti-gay, anti-marriage amendment is meant squarely and solely to reverse the decision in Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health that ended marriage discrimination in Massachusetts." ...

GLAD’s lawsuit was filed in the single justice session of the Supreme Judicial Court. It is anticipated that the case will be reported by the single justice to the full court and set for oral argument in Spring 2006.

We wonder which "single justice" they'll get? There's at least a 4 out of 7 chance it will be a good friend!

New Web Guide to the Political Left Needs Your Input

Here's a developing website you need to check out and contribute ideas to: David Horowitz's "Discover the Network" . If you're not familiar with Horowitz, check out his main site at FrontPageMag.com. He was a "red diaper baby" turned libertarian/conservative. One of his other big campaigns now is for academic freedom on college campuses. Generally a good guy.

Horowitz's new site will be a "Guide to the Political Left." It identifies the individuals and organizations that make up the left and also the institutions that fund and sustain it; it maps the paths through which the left exerts its influence on the larger body politic; it defines the left's (often hidden) programmatic agendas and it provides an understanding of its history and ideas.

Problem is, Horowitz hasn't yet gotten into the issues we deal with: the danger posed by leftist queer activists and their judicial-tyrant friends. He needs your help seeing the connection between these people and threats to our freedom of speech and religion, and constitutionally guaranteed liberties.

Send them information on groups like GLSEN, Human Rights Campaign, Gay & Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, etc.

Not Too Late for Romney to Act on "Gay Marriage" Ruling

Article 8 Alliance has posted a great page, reiterating the continuing illegality of "gay marriage" in Massachusetts. The main point, which this blog has been making for a year now, is that there is NO STATUTORY BASIS for the homosexual marriages in this state. We in fact drafted Bill H654 currently before the legislature, which states:

AN ACT TO CLARIFY THE STATUS OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGES PERFORMED UNDER PUBLIC AUTHORITY IN MASSACHUSETTS SINCE MAY 17, 2004.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: It is hereby declared that all same-sex marriages performed under public authority in Massachusetts since May 17, 2004 are without statutory basis; and no marriage performed in Massachusetts will be considered legally binding which is not established by Massachusetts statute, not withstanding licensing through the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, or city or town clerk.

The Article 8 page includes a link to an article by constitutional law scholar Hadley Arkes (in National Review Online) from the day "gay marriages" began in Massachusetts -- May 17, 2004. Arkes said something then that still applies. And if Gov. Romney has national ambitions, he should take note, and take action:

Is it now too late [for Gov. Romney to act against "gay marriage"]? That isn't altogether clear. Today has become the decisive date only because of the holding of the Supreme Judicial Court. But this argument over the error of the court, or the wrongful taking of jurisdiction, does not expire on May 17. That argument is still open, which means that it could be plausible for the governor to make that move at any time. ...

If he were going to open himself to controversy and litigation, why not finally take his stand on the constitution itself, where his own authority on matters of marriage is clearly spelled out? And in taking his stand on the constitutional question, he would move to higher ground, with the burden of challenge shifted to the courts. As the arguments and recriminations fly freely about, he can in effect blow the whistle, invoke his authority, shift the focus dramatically, and make it clear — to the relief of the public — that a grownup is finally in charge.

It might have been a striking appeal to the south and west in the Republican party, that there was a northern governor, aligned with them in their moral perspectives, and with the resolution to act. [Emphasis added]

We say it's still not too late for Gov. Romney to take decisive action!

Romney Approved Special "Homosexual Marriage" Certificates

Wow, Romney's in a deeper hole than even we at MassResistance knew! Not only is he pretending he couldn't stop homosexual "marriages" from commencing in May 2004 (falsely claiming the SJC ruling had the power of law). Now the Globe reports that in 2005 he "approved at least 189 requests from same-sex couples" for the special one-day marriage certificates only he can issue! Disgraceful.

The Governor, his chief of staff, and the Boston Globe still don't get it: There is no law (statute) establishing homosexual "marriage" in Massachusetts! So they can't get away with saying "he's just applying the law fairly." How strange that even Romney's top legal adviser (from the Spring of 2004) told the Globe "the governor cannot legally apply a statute selectively."

MassResistance asks: WHAT STATUTE? Can they please give us the reference to the Mass. law that applies here? Just repeating over and over that "gay marriage is legal in Mass." doesn't make it so. And the Governor trying to hide behind staffers processing the applications won't work. (Romney has even bragged that some of his top staffers are gay! That might explain some of the problems we're having with him...)

But word is starting to get out to conservatives around the country that Romney has seriously violated his oath protect our state constitution.

From the Boston Globe, "Some see conflict for Romney on gay marriage", by Scott Helman and Scott Greenberger:

For 17 years, Massachusetts couples have asked friends, family, and loved ones to solemnize their marriages under an obscure state law allowing the governor to grant one-day certificates to officiate a wedding.

Since same-sex marriage became legal in May 2004, Governor Mitt Romney has approved scores of such requests from gay and lesbian couples, creating a ticklish political situation for the staunch gay-marriage opponent as he gears up for a possible presidential bid in 2008. Romney approved at least 189 requests from same-sex couples in 2005, along with about 1,040 applications for heterosexual couples.

The one-day certificates, which cost $25, allow virtually anyone to legally solemnize a marriage anywhere in the Commonwealth....

Romney's communications director, Eric Fehrnstrom, said that even though the governor opposes gay marriage, it would be discriminatory and illegal for him to apply the law regarding the one-day certificates differently to same-sex couples....

Fehrnstrom added that Romney's staff, not the governor himself, routinely handles and approves the applications....

Daniel Winslow, Romney's top legal adviser at the time [2004], said in an interview last week that attorney-client privilege prevented him from commenting on whether the administration discussed internally the one-day licenses as they pertained to gay marriage. But as a general principle, he said, the governor cannot legally apply a statute selectively. ''If you do them, you gotta do them," Winslow said. ''It's got to be applied evenly across the board."

The Romney administration applied the same logic when it instructed justices of the peace in 2004 that the law required them to officiate at same-sex weddings, even if they opposed gay marriage. Justices of the peace who didn't want to perform such marriages were told to resign....

But the governor has at times taken pains to promote tolerance of gays and lesbians. When an administration official was dismissed and asserted that the action was related to her intention to marry her lesbian partner, Romney strongly denied it and noted that several high-ranking officials in his administration were gay.

And in a November speech to the conservative Federalist Society in Washington DC, Romney decried the SJC decision, but also said, ''We should be open and tolerant of different lifestyles."

The applications Romney approved from same-sex couples included at least four from state legislators, including Jarrett T. Barrios...

Where the Slippery Slope Starts

Stanley Kurtz has written a lot on same-sex marriage. His big thing lately is the slippery slope theory: Once homosexual marriages are validated, there's no stopping group marriages, and this will be very destabilizing for society. We agree.

But we differ with Kurtz on where the slippery slope begins. We believe it starts with a legal and social acceptance of homosexuality. Once the legal and social barriers have been removed (i.e., sodomy laws are overturned, gay hookup billboards are allowed on city streets, and family supermarkets carry homosexual newspapers), there's no stopping the radicals from claiming their demands are all about "equal rights". If there's nothing wrong with homosexual behavior per se, they can portray any opposition to anything they want as a discriminatory denial of rights.

Kurtz, on the other hand, believes we must accept homosexual behavior and overturn legal impediments to it (sodomy laws). What he doesn't understand is that he's undercutting his own arguments for preserving
marriage as "one man plus one woman."

What he calls "the 'ick' factor" -- undefined, but apparently the natural gut recognition to the unnaturalness of homosexual behavior -- should not be buried, and those who are brave enough to admit it should not be pushed to the sidelines in this debate. MassResistance believes "the 'ick' factor" comes not only from nature, but from our conscience. We think it a positive thing -- and denying it puts you on the slippery slope.

Kurtz's lengthy piece in The Weekly Standard, "Here Come the Brides: Plural marriage is waiting in the wings" about the recent trio (hetero man + two bisexual women) "married" in Holland, focused on his horror at the bisexuality inherent in polyamorous groupings. It seems "the 'ick' factor" is still operative for Kurtz regarding bisexuality!

(Kurtz points out that in the U.S., the Unitarians are ready to take the lead on group "marriage" -- as they did with same-sex "marriage" -- but have pulled back for fear of damaging the still precarious same-sex "marriage" movement. MassResistance noted back in June the Unitarian role in this social revolution.)

More recently in National Review Online, Kurtz responded to a liberal critic, who failed to see one of his main points about the importance of opposite-sex parents for children. Then Kurtz reiterated his opposition to sodomy laws! He wants to be sure we all understand that he does not oppose homosexual "marriage" on the basis of "the 'ick' factor." (Neither does he have any interest in addressing the health risks of homosexual sex, and its impact on public health.)

Kurtz wrote: "Anderson claims my use of the slippery-slope argument shows desperation. In effect, says Anderson, resort to the slippery slope proves that my main argument against gay marriage, "the 'ick' factor," is losing ground with the American people. Trouble is, I do not oppose same-sex marriage based on "the 'ick' factor." I've always called for tolerance of homosexuality, going back to "The Ashcroft-Logger Alliance" in 2001, where I expressed opposition to sodomy laws.

"I've used the slippery-slope argument from the beginning, as have other opponents of same-sex marriage. The only difference is that the slippery-slope argument is becoming more obviously true with every passing year. If anyone is prejudiced here, it's Anderson, who relies on mistaken assumptions about opponents of same-sex marriage.

"Arguably the central claim of same-sex-marriage opponents [is] that gay marriage separates marriage from parenthood, with deleterious consequences for marriage as an institution."

"[S]ame-sex marriage is winning through equal-protection claims. Most of those who favor same-sex marriage give little thought to marriage as an institution and much thought to the analogy from civil rights. Given that fundamental legal-political-cultural fact, there is every reason to fear that the grounds on which we are granting same-sex marriage will someday force us to grant recognition to multiple-partner marriage."

So, Kurtz believes in toleration for homosexuals in general, but is concerned that their right to "marry" is socially destabilizing -- and will lead to group "marriages."

This is puzzling. Can't Kurtz see that a slippery-slope argument applied earlier in the game? Once you're publicly tolerant of homosexuality, how do you deny it's a legitimate basis for a "marriage" or "family"? If you outlaw "the 'ick' factor", or refuse to address the health risks of homosexuality (and transsexuality), your only recourse is to prove something that lies in the future (so is still unprovable): the socially destabilizing effect of sanctioned homosexual or polyamorous "marriages" and "parenting."

Once you say that the unnatural is natural and acceptable in sexual relations, how can you insist that there's a natural family order ("a child needs both a mother and a father") that must be adhered to? Why can't we be accepting of all family structures as valid, including three or more parents? Once you accept homosexual sexuality, why not accept bisexual sexuality? Why is he so upset at the idea of bisexuality, while tolerant of homosexuality?

As the grand social experiment leads into weirder and weirder places, Kurtz has too keep adjusting his outrage trigger. He accepts homosexuality, but not bisexuality. And bad as homosexual "marriage" is, he seems to think group "marriages" are even worse! What he doesn't seem to grasp is that the GLBTQIP activists are winning through incrementalism. After a few years of in-your-face outrageous demands, people like Kurtz are softened up, and ready to move on to oppose the next outrage. Meanwhile, the first outrageous demands have been achieved.

"More important, the De Bruijn [recently in Holland] wedding reveals a heretofore hidden dimension of the gay marriage phenomenon. The De Bruijns' triple marriage is a bisexual marriage. And, increasingly, bisexuality is emerging as a reason why legalized gay marriage is likely to result in legalized group marriage. If every sexual orientation has a right to construct its own form of marriage, then more changes are surely due. For what gay marriage is to homosexuality, group marriage is to bisexuality. The De Bruijn trio is the tip-off to the fact that a connection between bisexuality and the drive for multipartner marriage has been developing for some time."

Kurtz is taking a purely sociological perspective, trying hard to keep his scholarly focus just on family structure, while being open to an anything-goes sexuality...until "bisexuality" pops up and leads into polyamory! But he got on the slippery slope the minute he argued for accepting homosexual sex, while opposing only homosexual "marriage."

We believe "the 'ick' factor" is still powerful in America. It's the only thing that will halt this social and moral decline. Sadly, the public has been propagandized for so long about being open-minded and accepting, and seeing homosexual "marriage" as an "equal rights" issue, they don't want to appear "backward". So they've saved their gut opposition for the ballot box ... when they're allowed to vote.

More Boston Globe Propaganda

In the Boston Globe, Dec. 30: "Same sex couple’s lawsuit a test of tolerance in Ireland.”

"Tolerance"? According to what definition? More artful propaganda. No serious voice of opposition or thoughtful criticism is included in the article. (What wonderful looking ladies. Great careers. The perfect couple. Still holding hands after 25 years. Why, that never happens with straight couples!)

Then, for an extra treat, if you clicked on the story above, you saw at the top of the page a billboard for Lambda Lounge, "for gay males only, 100% free personals." A hookup site. We're assaulted at every turn. Have we had enough yet?