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This is the body that orchestrates the hardcore homosexual programs, assemblies, "gay clubs" and similar activities in schools across Massachusetts, from Kindergarten through high school. They use hundreds of thousands of dollars (actually, probably in the millions) of your tax money to do it.

As part of their "outreach" to kids, they're behind the hideous "youth pride" events in downtown Boston where vulnerable children can hook up with possibly dangerous adults (many of them troubled themselves - for instance, men wearing women's clothes).

Here's a recent meeting of the Commission:
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/events07/gaycomm_031907/

This group now calls itself the "Massachusetts Commission on Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Youth. " Among its leadership is a man dressed as a woman and a woman who's taking hormones to grow a beard and sideburns. And they are very serious about "reaching out" to children in the public schools.

THIS MONDAY afternoon, July 16, they will be holding a public meeting in Hyannis. We would encourage any and all of you to go and see for yourself this government "commission" in action!

Commission trying to bend open meeting laws.

When you go to the meeting bring your cameras. Take pictures. (And take a tape recorder.)

This bizarre Commission is trying to claim that audience members cannot photograph them or take videos while they are in public session. (You can understand why: this is a VERY strange and frightening group of people.) And even the Attorney General's office has joined in some of this intimidation.

But the Massachusetts open meeting law relating to state agencies is quite broad. It overrides the state audio wiretapping law and allows the public to tape record the meeting without permission. It does not constrict the audience, sitting in their seats, from taking pictures or videotaping -- as long as they do not cause any disturbance (for example using a flash). So cameras or videos without flash are allowed, taken from the audience's seats. (However, they can restrict you from setting up a stationary video camera on the floor.) And no governmental agency we've ever seen has ever suggested otherwise.

DO NOT allow them to intimidate you from exercising your rights.

These people do NOT own your children. And as a public body, they must follow the same open meeting rules as all others.

MassResistance and National Organization for Women take opposite sides in public hearing on bill to mandate controversial HPV vaccine to all 6th-grade girls.

National Organization for Woman representative testifies in support of S102. Note that
only five of the twenty members of the committee even bothered to be there.

...But the room was full of people. Most appeared to be medical professionals. How many were there to see what opposition testimony came up on S102?

MASSACHUSETTS STATE HOUSE (JULY 11, 2007) At Wednesday's hearing before the Joint Committee on Health Care Financing, a roomful of people showed up. Bill S102 - which would mandate the controversial Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine for all 6th-grade girls -- was first on the list of bills to be heard that day.

But when the committee asked for testimony on bill S102, only three people actually testified. Brian Camenker of MassResistance and pro-family activist Chris Funnell spoke strongly against the bill. And a young woman from the National Organization for Women (NOW) urged the committee to pass it.

MassResistance came out swinging (figuratively speaking). Among other things, we made sure they knew that this is basically a nationwide campaign by the huge Merck drug firm, and does NOT have grassroots support. And that physicians and parents across the country are concerned and outraged that (1) the vaccine only covers FOUR of the dozens of strains of HPV (2) this vaccine has NOT been properly tested, (3) we DON'T know its long-term effects on a female's reproductive system, and (4) we DON'T know its long-term effects on the immune system. And what are the emotional effects of giving 11-year-old girls a vaccine for a sexually transmitted disease? This is extremely reckless.

Unfortunately, as you can see by our photos, most of the 20-member committee didn't bother to even show up. Even the chairman, Sen. Moore, arrived late.

Luckily, MassResistance also brought CDs for each committee member of Dr. Diggs' comprehensive discussion of the dangers of this vaccine, and also written testimony by Dr. Diggs and others.

What was really going on? Why didn't anyone from Merck testify? This is quite sophisticated. Merck is doing everything behind the scenes.

Big-time lobbying. On May 30, Merck organized the "Mass. Caucus of Women Legislators" to sponsor a forum at the State House to push for S316. It was in a fourth-floor "private members" room, and over 80 people were there. There was a small army of "health care professionals" who were giving a souped-up dog-and-pony-show to dozens of invited legislators. It was first-class lobbying effort, that obviously cost a lot of money. (However, Amy from MassResistance was also there, and she's preparing a full report scheduled for early next week!)

Obviously, Merck doesn't want a "public" face on this, so they didn't testify at the public hearing. Instead, they recruited the Boston NOW chapter (which strongly supports abortion, pre-marital sex, etc.) to be their "front" group, so it would look as if it had wider support.

Why is this bill in the Health Care Finance Committee rather than the Public Health Committee? They're being devious. Sen. Moore explained at the forum that he wants to focus the debate from the "controversial" aspects of the bill to the financing of the vaccines, in order to shift the attention of the public and others.

Here's our earlier report from July 9 :

Bill in Legislature would require ALL 6th-grade girls in Mass. to get controversial HPV vaccine -- regardless of parents' objections!

Being pushed nationwide by huge Merck drug firm. Not adequately tested, say many physicians.

The latest sex-industry nightmare on kids is about to descend. This time it's being pushed by a heavyweight drug company and its allies in the Legislature. The public hearing for this bill is on Wednesday (see info below).

Senate bill S102 would require all sixth-grade girls in Massachusetts - 11 and 12-year olds - to be vaccinated for Human Pampilloma Virus (HPV), a sexually transmitted disease that can cause cervical cancer and other effects. Although the prime sponsor, Sen. Richard Moore (D-Uxbridge), has lined up some heavy support across the state for this bill, there is a lot of concern among physicians and others.

Among the concerns:

This bill is being pushed in Massachusetts and other states across the country by the drug giant Merck, the only company making a vaccine for HPV. Merck appears to be spending enormous amounts of money in lobbying efforts across the country, and sales of the drug could reach $4 billion according to some estimates.

To find out more about the huge concerns and public health issues with this vaccine: Back in March, Dr. John Diggs, an internal medicine physician who lectures internationally on sexually transmitted diseases, gave an incredible interview on our MassResistance Radio show on HPV and the issues surrounding this bill. This is really worth hearing:

Boston man failed Mass. Bar Exam because he refused to answer question on 'gay marriage' - files federal lawsuit.

We keep being told that 'gay marriage' won't affect us. We're now seeing that one of its effects is to legally push the normalization of homosexuality into everyone's lives -- in one way or another -- and punish those who don't go along with it.

A man is being forced to sue the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court over being answer questions on homosexual "marriage" legal situations in order to pass the bar exam and practice law in Masachusetts.

Bar-exam flunker sues: Wannabe rejects gay-wed question, law
By Donna Goodison, Boston Herald
Friday, July 6, 2007

A Boston man who failed the Massachusetts bar exam has filed a federal lawsuit claiming his refusal to answer a test question - related to gay marriage - caused him to flunk the test.

Stephen Dunne, 30, is suing the Massachusetts Board of Bar Examiners and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, claiming the “inappropriate” test question violated his religious convictions and his First Amendment rights. Answering the question, Dunne claims, would imply he endorsed gay marriage and parenting.

The suit also challenges the constitutionality of the 2003 SJC ruling that made Massachusetts the nation’s first state to legalize same-sex marriage.

Dunne, who describes himself as a Christian and a Democrat, is seeking $9.75 million in damages and wants a jury to prohibit the Board of Bar Examiners from considering the question in his passage of the exam and to order it removed from all future exams.

“There’s a different forum for that contemporary issue to be discussed, and it’s inappropriate to be on a professional licensing examination,” Dunne told the Herald. “You don’t see questions about partial-birth abortion or abortion on there.”

Dunne scored a 268.866 on the bar exam, just missing a passing grade of 270. The exam question at issue concerns two married lesbian attorneys and their rights regarding a house and two children when one decides to end the marriage.

“Yesterday, Jane got drunk and hit (her spouse) Mary with a baseball bat, breaking Mary’s leg, when she learned that Mary was having an affair with Lisa,” the bar exam question stated. “As a result, Mary decided to end her marriage with Jane in order to live in her house with Philip, Charles and Lisa. What are the rights of Mary and Jane?”

Dunne claims the question was used as a “screening device” to identify and penalize him for “refusing to subscribe to a liberal ideology based on ‘secular humanism,’ ”according to his lawsuit.

“Homosexual conduct is inconsistent with (Dunne’s) Christian practices, beliefs and values, which are protected by the First Amendment,” the lawsuit states.

“I respect people with alternative lifestyles, and we must do that in a civil society,” Dunne said. “I just have a different opinion that millions of people share with me, and I believe that my opinion should be respected just as much as (pro-gay) opinions. I have no intent in spreading hatred or discrimination.”

In his court documents, Dunne described homosexuality as a “voluntary human behavior that is changeable.”

“Societal recognition and perpetuation of rampant homosexuality is neither prudent nor wise,” his lawsuit states.

Dunne, who’s representing himself in the suit, said he’s not affiliated with any anti-gay groups.

He described himself as an Ireland native who gained U.S. citizenship through a six-year U.S. Army Infantry stint.

His lawsuit states he has a law degree from a “prestigious Boston law school,” which he declined to name, and is working on an MBA at an “esteemed Boston business school.”

The Board of Bar Examiners and SJC declined comment.

But Boston attorney Tom Dacey doesn’t believe the case will go very far. Gay marriage is now part of the state’s domestic relation laws, and that’s one subject on which the Board of Bar Examiners traditionally tests applicants, Dacey said.

“Lawyers have to answer questions about legal principles they disagree with all the time, and that doesn’t mean we’re endorsing them,” said Dacey, a director of Goulston & Storrs’ litigation group. “You might be somebody who is morally opposed to divorce, but have to interpret the divorce laws of the commonwealth to answer a question about who property is passed to.”

Catholic activist Larry Cirignano to stand trial on civil rights charges from pro-gay demonstrator! Judge denies motion to charges, issues outrageous ruling.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is charging Larry Cirignano with a "civil rights" violation - as well as assault and battery. This is a horrible perversion of justice reminiscent of the David Parker ruling. Right and wrong, and even common sense, are tossed aside.

In Worcester District Court Friday, Judge David Ricciardone rejected the motion by Catholic activist Larry Cirignano's lawyers to drop the "civil rights" charges against him in connection with last December's pro-marriage rally on December 16.

On December 16, 2006, Larry was helping run a peaceful pro-marriage rally on the steps of the Worcester City Hall. Larry's group had a permit to be there. As they started, dozens of homosexual activists approached and began to disrupt the event, many screaming vulgar epithets. The police attempted to keep the homosexual activists to the side. But one of them, Sarah Loy (also a member of the ACLU Board of Directors) broke through the crowd and stood in front of the podium, waving a pro-homosexual sign and chanting and shouting. According to several witnesses, Larry led her to the side and walked away. Then Loy dived to the ground and claimed that Larry had violently pushed her down! The next thing Larry knew, he was in court charged with assault and battery, and a civil rights violation!

See our full report of that incident, including videos.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/events06/worcester_1216/index.html

On June 28, Larry's lawyers moved to dismiss the civil rights charge. Today, the judge rejected that motion.

Judge David Ricciardone's ruling today is unbelievably absurd. Either he didn't understand what actually happened, or he has no understanding of constitutional law.

The judge is arguing that Loy was simply "along the intended route" of a parade, rather than breaking through the crowd and standing in front of the podium. He is also saying that a permit to hold a rally at a particular place does not imply that the organizers have the right to control the message at their own event! The man is out of his mind. He is not describing the United States of America.

But there's more. Why is the Commonwealth of Massachusetts pressing these ridiculous charges against Larry? Whose of agenda is he pushing? That question NEEDS to be asked to Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early, Jr. Something is very, very wrong here.

Our question to you: Do you get it yet?
This happened to David Parker; it happened to Larry; it happened to Diane Steele. It could happen to you next. The time for us to be "polite and reasonable" seems to have passed.

Public is invited: Massachusetts "Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth" holding public meeting Monday, July 16, in Hyannis, 2:00 pm.

Using your tax dollars to push homosexual programs on your children.

Commission trying to bend open meeting laws.

MassResistance and National Organization for Women take opposite sides in public hearing on bill to mandate controversial HPV vaccine to all 6th-grade girls.

Here's our earlier report from July 9 :

Bill in Legislature would require ALL 6th-grade girls in Mass. to get controversial HPV vaccine -- regardless of parents' objections!

Being pushed nationwide by huge Merck drug firm. Not adequately tested, say many physicians.

Boston man failed Mass. Bar Exam because he refused to answer question on 'gay marriage' - files federal lawsuit.

Catholic activist Larry Cirignano to stand trial on civil rights charges from pro-gay demonstrator! Judge denies motion to charges, issues outrageous ruling.