Family Defenders Insulted, Homosexual Activist Confirmed to Mass. High Court

 

By Gina Miller
DakotaVoice.com

The Soviet Union is history, but the ways of it are alive and well right here in America.  I’m talking about the diseased scourge of political correctness, which is nothing more than speech fascism.  The relentless assault continues on the freedom of Christians to express their beliefs and speak out against the radical homosexual agenda that infects our society, and has largely succeeded in capturing the sympathy and even the lives of many of the young people in our country through years of public school, media and entertainment indoctrination.

Mass Resistance reports that last Wednesday, the Massachusetts Governor’s Council voted to confirm the first openly homosexual woman to the highest court in the Commonwealth, the Supreme Judicial Court.  Mass Resistance’s Brian Camenker and a handful of other marriage and family defenders gave a valiant fight against the nomination of Appellate Court Judge Barbara Lenk, but in the end, the Governor’s Council voted 5 to 3 to confirm Ms. Lenk.

During the previous week of public hearings before the Council, the double standard against pro-family speakers, which we are becoming used to seeing, was on disgusting display.  From the Mass Resistance website,

On Wednesday, April 27, the 8-member elected Governor’s Council (chaired by Lt. Gov. Tim Murray) held its public hearing for Barbara Lenk an openly lesbian appellate judge, who has been nominated to the Supreme Judicial Court. If you couldn’t make it, consider yourself lucky. Over the years we’ve been to some hostile public hearings. But nothing quite like this.

It seemed like something out of the old Soviet Union. Certain views and subject matter were deemed unacceptable for discussion. Specifically, expression of traditional religious values or discussion of homosexual behavior and effects were simply not allowed. The hostility of certain members of the Governor’s council toward these values and the people holding them was never far from the surface.”

Linked at the Mass Resistance site are some videos of the proceedings.  I was revolted by the pompous, condescending attitude of the Council to the pro-family defenders.  Such treatment was not given to the speakers who supported Ms. Lenk.  As Mass Resistance noted,

“The ‘pro-Lenk’ people were given as much time as they wanted to speak. They could bring up any subject, even if it was personal or didn’t relate to Lenk’s qualifications or judicial philosophy. Much of the time was spent with the Council asking them questions about unrelated topics, such as the current state of the probation department or general court issues. But they were treated cordially and respectfully.

After all the ‘pro’ people were finished, the ‘anti-Lenk’ people were allowed to testify, about 8 in all who were still there (around mid-afternoon).

The rules were drastically changed: (1) A 5-minute limit on testimony was imposed, and a timer was set up. (2) Only topics that were pertinent to Lenk’s qualifications or judicial philosophy were allowed, and that was enforced by Lt. Gov. Murray, who was chairing the meeting. (3) Discussion of moral and religious values and homosexuality was considered off limits. And (4) the Councilors felt free to confront, insult, and question the motives of the pro-family witnesses.

…We’ve never seen anything like it. It shocked even us—although the liberals who made up most of those in the room seemed fine with it. (Several of the Councilors also made it a point to state that they supported the concept of homosexual judges, whether we liked it or not.)”

I can already hear the screeching from the left asking me just what is wrong with a homosexual judge on the Massachusetts high court.  For one thing, this is an in-your-face activist homosexual, not just an ordinary, low-key homosexual.  We see what happens when activist judges are on the bench—they seek to make laws, not interpret them, and they have little regard for the Constitution.

Just look at the homosexual judge in California, Vaughn Walker, who, before he retired, outrageously overturned the will of 7 million California voters who legally and rightly declared marriage to be the union of one man and one woman.  A motion has been filed to have his decision thrown out, since he later revealed that he has been involved in a long-term relationship with a man, which means he should never have presided over that case from the beginning, because he had such a clear-cut conflict of interests.

Mass Resistance noted several disturbing issues with Ms. Lenk, including the fact that she ruled last year that the purpose of the state’s incest law is to “prevent biological and genetic abnormalities” (oh, that’s the only reason?!) and her support for a high school production called “Falsettos,”which is a homosexual themed, anti-Semitic play.  She has also appeared in a homosexual magazine which featured her as an “out lesbian judge” who is “helping to create a shift in the culture.”  She has publicly stated that she believes the law is something that “evolves and develops.”  Mass Resistance also mentioned,

“When questioned by the Governor’s Council about judicial activism, she flippantly claimed that she had no idea what that meant.

… Her own same-sex ‘marriage’ reinforces a ‘right’ invented by activist judges repudiating thousands of years of Western culture, and never legalized by the Massachusetts legislature. (She should have been quizzed on the constitutional separation of powers.)

… In 1998, her stay of the injunction (because it would cause ‘irreparable harm’ to couples) when Boston Mayor Menino illegally established municipal domestic partnerships was overturned 7-0 by the Supreme Judicial Court.

… She was asked by the Governor’s Council: ‘Does the 2nd Amendment apply to the residents of Massachusetts through the due process clause of the 14th Amendment?’ She refused to give an answer.”

There is plenty for the people of Massachusetts to be concerned about in this affirmative action nominee, but now the deal is done.  Democrat Governor Deval Patrick’s payback to his homosexual supporters has been confirmed to their high court.

The detestable treatment by the Council of the pro-family speakers was amazing to behold.  One of the Councilors, Marilyn Devaney, went so far as to say,

“I am not responsible for the public who spoke at that hearing. I don’t know them. If I was presiding I would have gaveled out of order speakers who used demeaning and inappropriate language.”

Unbelievable!  In response, Mass Resistance wrote,

“Demeaning and inappropriate language from members of the public? That, of course, is a reference to the testimony of pro-family speakers that day. Well, excuse us for having traditional values and voicing our concerns about people who will be judges over us. And obviously Councilor Devaney has some issues with the First Amendment. This is among the most offensive things we’ve ever heard a public official say, and we’ve heard a lot.

And what about the Councilors who actually were demeaning and inappropriate to us? Apparently not a problem for Devaney.

Devaney also said that because [of] the actions of people like us other qualified homosexuals were afraid to apply for judgeships, and that bothers her greatly.”

One Republican Councilor, Jennie Caissie, offered further slanderous abuse to the pro-family speakers when she spouted,

“I want to begin by thanking Judge Lenk for her candid testimony at the hearing, for her professionalism, and her stoic presentation in the light of some very unprofessional and irrelevant questioning. I rise because I want to set the basis for my vote and distinguish myself from those irrelevant and ignorant questions.”

What a jerk of woman she is!  So, any of us who are opposed to the obviously wrong radical homosexual agenda are—in her pea brain—“irrelevant” and “ignorant”?  And the other woman, Devaney, would gavel us down for speaking against that agenda?  These women would make Stalin proud.  Hopefully the voters of Massachusetts will show those chickies the door in their next election.

So, why should you care about what happens on the high court in Massachusetts?  Because this is part of a larger, nationwide effort by the militant homosexual movement to eradicate the voice of Christianity in America.  It concerns us all.  As Brian Camenker wrote on the Mass Resistance report on the vote,

“All of this, including the hostility by members of the Council against people with normal, traditional values, should frighten and anger you. It was unprecedented. This could be the beginning of an eventual ban on moral and religious expression.  More and more politicians (and judges) see serious Christians and Jews as less than human because of their ‘backwards’ and ‘intolerant’ beliefs. We only need to look to Europe to see where that leads.”

It’s high time for a huge backlash against this radical homosexual movement.  It’s time to stop it from our schools to our courts to our entertainment, and it’s time to stop bending to their intimidation, just because the militant homosexuals employ violent bullying tactics.  They will only get progressively worse unless they are stopped.  If they are not stopped, look for the curse of Sodom to fall on a city near you.

Gina Miller, a native of Texas, is a radio commentator and disc jockey. She also works with her husband installing and repairing residential irrigation systems and doing landscaping on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.