New book on gay marriage in Massachusetts

My new book will be available soon! 

Corrupt Bargains
How Gay Marriage Began in Massachusetts

by Amy L. Contrada

The book is a unique, 500-page documentary history of the constitutional crisis surrounding the implementation of gay marriage in Massachusetts, 2001-2007.

In 2003, Massachusetts became the first state to formally recognize same-sex marriage. In a 4-3 ruling, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court declared that the Massachusetts Constitution (written by John Adams) protected same-sex marriage as an inviolable right. This absurdity went unchallenged by the political elite who cared nothing for the constitution’s clear separation of powers. While the state’s marriage law was never changed, the executive branch (under Governor Mitt Romney) illegally implemented same-sex marriage – blindly accepting the court as the ultimate authority, despite widespread calls to reject its ruling.

CORRUPT BARGAINS is a unique history of how same-sex marriage began in Massachusetts. It is the only documentary account of the corrupt maneuvering of politicians and pro-LGBT special interest groups during this constitutional crisis (2001-2007). Massachusetts developed the template for the deceptive political strategies that would dupe the conservative establishment and citizenry across the country. The tactics behind the U.S. Supreme Court’s Obergefell ruling on same-sex marriage (2015) were crafted in Massachusetts.

The successful LGBT strategy was to ignore questions of morality and public health, invent “rights,” demand “fairness” and “equality,” and flood the zone with emotional propaganda. The achievement of same-sex marriage cleared the way for the next big goal of the sexual radicals: transgender rights.

CORRUPT BARGAINS is a case study of how corrupt government officials circumvent constitutional governance. The book provides a front-row view of these precedent-setting events. It has rescued rare sources from the memory hole, with up-to-date links in the 900 endnotes.

A NEW EDITION OF THIS IMPORTANT HISTORY IS IN THE WORKS -- available in early 2023.

Formerly available at Amazon, we have decided to CANCEL Amazon in light of the company's censorship of important books including 

The Health Hazards of Homosexuality.

MITT ROMNEY'S DECEPTION:
His Stealth Promotion of Gay Rights and

Gay Marriage in Massachusetts

by Amy L. Contrada

  
Mitt Romney's Deception reveals the former Massachusetts Governor's promotion of "gay rights," his unconstitutional implementation of "gay marriage," and his support for sexual-radical programs in the Massachusetts schools. The outrages Romney failed to halt set horrible precedents for radical leftist victories nationwide. Contrary to his claim that he defended marriage, the Constitution, traditional values, and religious freedom, he actually undermined them. This superbly documented history is a unique resource by an activist on the front lines of the culture war during Mitt Romney's term as Governor.

[First ed. publication date: Jul 16 2011]

Boston College Celebrates Coming Out Week

The latest from that radical "Catholic" university, Boston College: Its student newspaper reports that bisexuality was a big focus for National Coming Out Week this year. There are lots of misconceptions about this "identity":

To celebrate NCOW, the GLC has been hosting various events throughout the week. On Tuesday, the group hosted a panel on bisexuality, during which five undergraduate students from BC spoke about their personal experiences and the issue of bisexuality on campus.

"People often tell me that I should just be straight because I have more options, that I should lean more toward the opposite sex," said Rachel Graves, one of the panelists and A&S '11. "But I wouldn't want to do that because that is not being who I am. I would not be honest with myself if I claimed that I am either straight or gay." 

"Both gay and straight communities tend to have some misconceptions about bisexuals," Graves said. 

She and other panelists said they felt that some people think bisexuals claim that they are so because they are either going through a "phase" in which they feel uncertain about their sexuality, or do not want to come to terms with the fact that they are homosexual.

"This misconception is sometimes an encumbrance when dating because the partner feels insecure about the bisexual's sexuality, and thus, the relationship in general," Graves said. 

"The panel was very interesting because it explored an identity that is often overlooked in the GLBTQ community," said Clifton James, CSOM '12, who attended on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, the GLC hosted an event called "Guess Who's Gay," in which the audience tried to figure out if a panelist is straight or GLBTQ. Members of the panel were behind sheets through which only their silhouettes and voices were discernible. 

Tonight, there will be an event called "Opening Boston's Closet," during which students will gather and talk about their sexual identities. Friday will be "Show Your Love Day" across the campus. People are encouraged to hug as many people as they can between classes.

And the BC kids think they have wisdom. Homosexuality is "perhaps the great theological question of our time," they write. The Church just hasn't given it enough thought. From the Cardinal Newman Society "Campus Notes" blog:

An article by the editorial board of the Boston College student newspaper site BCHeights.com upbraids the Catholic Church for its stance on gay issues.  The authors seem to take for granted that the Catholic Church’s teaching on the gay lifestyle must be wrong.  Their point is that Catholic thought on the subject would eventually come around to acceptance of the gay lifestyle if only the Church would study the question more.  Boston College is the place to do it, they argue.

“We empathize with students who were raised Catholic but who have been driven out by homophobic attitudes. The Church has to realize that its intolerance may deter people who do not identify as GLBTQ, as well. . . The Church has to face the fact that there are thousands, maybe millions of Catholics out there praying for some real discussion about the deeply personal struggle in their souls. This is, perhaps, the great theological question of our time, and BC, if it aspires to be a leader in the Catholic world, should explore ways to submit the question to rigorous examination. . . Faith and reason sometimes make a tenuous pair, but for thousands of years people in the Church have found ways to wed the two. . . BC needs to become a place where the tangled knot of Catholic moral theology on GLBTQ issues can be unraveled and debated by intelligent, thinking believers.”

BC Heights’ editorial board posted their opinions as Boston College’s celebration of National Coming Out Week continues. 

The “GLBTQ Leadership Council” celebrates National Coming Out Week every first week of October.  The Council president said, “Administrators sometimes face obstructions in helping us when they feel that the GLC activities are not aligned with Jesuit principles. But they are usually supportive of us.”

Another leader of the GLBTQ Leadership Council said, “Our school is more open to gays compared to some other Catholic institutions such as Notre Dame, and the administration has given us much help in coming this far.  We were able to have our first gala in the spring of 2009 and start selling ‘support love’ t-shirts in 2008.”

"Catholic" Marxist-Homosexualists Convene in Boston

There is a rich scandal ongoing in the Massachusetts Catholic Church. The Boston Archdiocese is sponsoring a so-called "social justice" conference next weekend. It sounds nice enough in its milquetoast description: 

Join parishes from around the Archdiocese of Boston to learn more about Catholic Social Teaching, celebrate the work for justice already going on, and find out concrete ways to connect faith with action in the service of justice.

But see the "Bryan Hehir Exposed" blog for the truth on what's really going on:

What Do the GLBT Agenda, Pro-Abortion Politics, and Marxism Have to Do With Boston Social Justice Conference?   October 4, 2010 by Joe Sacerdo

Revelations about the featured speakers at the Boston Archdiocese’s Social Justice conference this coming Saturday are getting worse every day, and more and more Catholics from across the country are sounding the alarm bells as part of our “Boston Catholic Tea Party” protest.  Today we hear more about support for gay activism and Marxism by the two featured speakers, Fr. James Massaro and Fr. Bryan Hehir, respectively. Yes, we said Marxism. Read on to see details of Fr. Hehir’s infamous talk in the “Matthew, Marx, Luke, and John” series at the left-leaning, Marxist-oriented Institute for Policy Studies.  Could the Boston Archdiocese possibly pick two worse speakers to place on the speaking podium?  ...

By now, many people know that on October 9, the archdiocese is sponsoring a Social Justice Conference, featuring Fr. Thomas Massaro, SJ from Boston College along with Fr. Bryan Hehir. We told you how Fr. Massaro was one of 26 signatories to a public letter supporting the nomination of pro-abortion former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services …

Marxism and Fr. Bryan Hehir - We’ll get to more on the GLBT agenda supported by the commission Fr. Massaro co-chairs, but first, the Marxism angle and Fr. Bryan Hehir.

What you may not have known is Fr. Hehir’s past involvement with the Marxist-oriented, gay-agenda-supportive Washington, DC think tank, the Institute for Policy Studies.  Fr. Hehir gave multiple talks there in the 1980s, including speaking in their Washington School series, “Matthew, Marx, Luke, and John” in October of 1983.

As you’ll see by this content on Religious Left Exposed, during the 1980s, the IPS served as a base of operations for those opposed to President Ronald Reagan’s anti-communist foreign policy. It was dedicated to the establishment of revolutionary Marxist and anti-American regimes in Central and Latin America and elsewhere and describes itself as the nation’s oldest progressive multi-issue think-tank. A New York Times Magazine article from April of 2001 exposes IPS as founded on radical, revolutionary and Marxist principles …

In 1984 [the IPS] hosted “Sister Boom-Boom” of the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” a group of “Queer Nuns” who mocked the Catholic Church.  The history of the IPS on their website proudly conveys how “Rita Mae Brown wrote and published her path-breaking lesbian coming-of-age novel Rubyfruit Jungle while on the staff in the 1970s.” ...

In our last post we covered Fr. Massaro’s service as co-chair, of the Cambridge Peace Commission, an organization linked with the GLBT agenda which has honored several gay activists in recent years. ...

[MUCH MORE here.]

Boston Globe and Emerson College Pushing Propaganda Play “Laramie Project”

Back in 2007, we assembled background info on the horrid propaganda play, “The Laramie Project.” Performed at high schools and colleges around the country, it uses raw emotion and lies to draw youth into the sexual-radical “rights” cause. The recruitment efforts never let up.  

So we’re not surprised to see “Laramie” being pushed again by Arts Emerson and the Boston Globe this week. They’re even exploiting the Governor’s daughter as a “panelist”. Emerson faculty are working with the sexual-radical groups GLAD, GLAAD, PFLAG, GLSEN, Matthew Shepard Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, and Boston’s “Theater Offensive” (“ambitious programming [on] the cutting edge of queer culture and politics”) to promote their ideology and sense of victimhood, and encourage everyone to “take action against hate”:

The moderator will be former ABC news anchor and current Leader-in-Residence in Emerson College’s Journalism Department Carole Simpson. "It is my pleasure to moderate a panel exploring the plight of the LBGT communities," said Simpson.  "Their problems of discrimination, physical abuse and exclusion have been overlooked too long.  The issues need to come 'out of the closet' into the light of public understanding. I hope I can facilitate that.  I lost a close relative to AIDS.  Through him I learned firsthand the difficulties he had by being 'different.'"

From the Boston Globe:

ArtsEmerson’s “The Laramie Residency’’ includes panel discussions and Tectonic Theater Project’s “The Laramie Project’’ and “The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later.’’ Tonight’s discussion, “The Struggle for GLBT Rights and Protections,’’ focuses on the Shepard/Byrd Hate Crimes Prevention Act, civil rights, and the impact on awareness because of “The Laramie Project.’’ Panelists include activist Katherine Patrick (Governor Deval Patrick’s daughter).

See our background study on “The Laramie Project” here.

Elena Kagan: Open Advocate for Radical GLBT Causes at Harvard

Another gem from the Harvard Crimson archives: Obama's latest Supreme Court nominee, Elena Kagan, participated in a "milestone" event in September 2003. As the new Dean of the Harvard Law School, she attended the school's first GLBT alumni reunion dinner. (Note the inclusion of "transgender" -- even in 2003.) Kagan is an alumna of HLS, Class of 1986.



Her presence at the least shows that as Dean she believed in the validity of homosexual and transgender identity-group demands, which these GLBT alumni push within the legal profession and judicial system, promoting their sexual radical goals. 



The Harvard Crimson described the event:

Celebratory at times, solemn at others, alumni and current students marked the anniversary Saturday with anecdotes about the personal challenges they faced, the battle they continue to fight to keep military recruiters off campus and the need for classroom instruction in legal issues pertaining to homosexuality. 



During the second discussion, titled "Lambda Today: Current Issues and Challenges Facing GLBT Students at HLS," a student panel expressed their dissatisfaction with the efforts that the faculty and administration are making to address issues facing GLBT students. They highlighted the University’s decision to continue to allow military recruiters on campus, even though their presence violates Harvard’s non-discrimination policy... 

As the reunion’s final event, a dinner held at the Hyatt Regency hotel, HLS Dean Elena Kagan renewed her commitment to improving student life for all students on campus ... 

[“HLS Holds Nation’s First Ever GLBT Reunion,” 9-22-03.]

Within a month, Kagan was agreeing with the demand made by the GLBT radical students at that reunion: banning military recruiters on campus. 
In October 2003, Kagan appeared at a conference held by Lambda, the GLBT group at the Law School. The Harvard Law Record reported:

. . . much of what Kagan said was a recital of her personal abhorrence for the military discriminatory policy. She said, "I am committed to working with Lambda and others . . . on making progress for the elimination of" discriminatory policies in the military. . .

Kagan's public statement was in fact her welcoming remarks for the two-day Lambda conference, titled: "Solomon's Minefield: Military Discrimination after Lawrence and the Coming Fight over Forced On-Campus Recruiting."



Some years later (in September 2008), she was a major participant at the 25th reunion of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus, titled “A Celebration of LGBT Life at Harvard."

She was Moderator for their panel discussion on "The State of the Law: Reflections on the Past Twenty-Five Years and Thoughts about the Future -- A discussion of LGBT legal developments and trends by leading legal scholars." Also in that panel discussion was recent Obama appointee (and noted lesbian activist) Chai Feldblum.




The HGLC group’s banner says it’s dedicated to “Organizing, Serving, and Advocating for the Harvard Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community” -- which is exactly what Kagan was doing when she appeared at their 25^th anniversary function. She is an open advocate for a highly controversial and radical cause. 

For more on why it matters whether Kagan may herself be a lesbian – or even just committed to the sexual radical causes -- see J. Matt Barber, “Kagan a lesbian? Why it matters” (WorldNetDaily, 5-20-10).

Obama Administration Overrun with Sexual Radicals

It’s no secret that the Obama administration is full of socialists, communists, Alinskyites, globalists, multiculturalists, environmentalists, and sexual radicals.

But look at this brag list from the Gay and Lesbian Leadership Institute to see just how many GLBT radicals hold influential positions.  They wouldn’t be on this list unless they brought their sexual revolutionary viewpoints onto the job each day. “Safe Schools Czar” Kevin Jennings has a lot of company.

From GLLI’s website:

Help President Obama lead the nation.

The Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute is leading a community-wide effort to identify strong LGBT candidates to serve in the Obama administration. The Presidential Appointments Project serves as the talent bank for openly LGBT professionals ...
While Barack Obama lays out a broad agenda to move the country forward, his staff is actually undertaking the hard work of implementation. Appointed officials have the power to set or influence the policies of the many federal departments and administrative agencies that make up the executive branch of government.... 

[“The Gay & Lesbian Leadership Institute is organizing the project, along with multiple partner organizations. Project partners include Federal GLOBE, GLAD, Human Rights Campaign, Lambda Legal, National Center for Transgender Equality, National Stonewall Democrats, Out & Equal, NBJC, NGLCC, NOGLSTP, Pride at Work, SAGE, Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, The Council for Global Equality, The Gay & Lesbian Task Force.”]

As of now, the following LGBT leaders have secured spots in the Obama administration:

Mark Agrast- Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legislative Affairs at the Department of Justice

Raul Alvillar- Congressional Relations Officer, Housing and Urban Development

Judy Applebaum- Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legislative Affairs at the Department of Justice

Cynthia Attwood- Member, Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission

Vic Basile- Senior Counselor to the Director, Office of Personnel Management

Anthony Bernal- Scheduler, Office of Dr. Jill Biden

Jeremy Bernard- Director of White House and Congressional Affairs, National Endowment for the Humanities

John Berry- Director, Office of Personnel Management

Jeremy Bishop- Special Assistant to the Secretary, Office of Public Engagement at the Department of Labor

Brian Bond- Deputy Director, White House Office of Public Engagement

Raphael Bostic- Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research, Housing and Urban Development

Ebs Burnough- Deputy Social Secretary, Office of the First Lady

Michael Camunez- Assistant Secretary for Market Access and Compliance, Department of Commerce

Lyle Canceko- Deputy Director, Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Department of Commerce

Jamison Citron- Confidential Assistant, Office of White House Liaison, Department of Health and Human Services

Brook Colangelo- Chief Information Officer, White House Office of Administration

John Connor- Director, Office of White House Liaison at the Department of Commerce

John Coppola- Member of the National Museum and Library Services Board

Jeffrey Crowley- Director, Office of National AIDS Policy

Fred Davie- Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Justin DeJong- Deputy Press Secretary, Department of Agriculture

Marisa Demeo- Associate Judge, DC Superior Court

Jenny Durkan- U.S. Attorney, Western District of Washington

John Easton- Director, Institute of Education Sciences

Eric Fanning- Deputy Under Secretary of the Navy

Chai Feldblum- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Carl Fillichio- Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Labor for Public Affairs and Communications

Daniel Gordon- Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, OMB

Kathy Greenlee- Assistant Secretary, Administration on Aging, Department of Health and Human Services

Steve Gunderson- Member, President’s Commission on White House Fellows

David Hansell- Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, Administration for Children and Families

Emily Hewitt- Chief Justice, U.S. Court of Federal Claims

Jennifer Ho- Deputy Director, Accountability Management at the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness

Fred Hochberg- Chairman, U.S. Export-Import Bank

David Huebner- U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand

Glenda Humiston- State Director for Rural Development in California

Shin Inouye- Director, Specialty Media

John Isa- Deputy Executive Director, Federal Office of Compliance

Karine Jean-Pierre- Regional Director, Office of Political Affairs

Kevin Jennings- Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools

Kristina Johnson- Under Secretary, Department of Energy

Jenn Jones- Special Assistant, Department of Housing and Urban Development

Elaine Kaplan- General Counsel, Office of Personnel Management

Brad Kiley- Director, White House Office of Management and Administration

Harry Knox- Member, President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Kei Koizumi- Assistant Director for Federal Research and Development, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Andy Lee- Chief of Staff, Office of Innovation and Improvement at the Department of Education

Jeffrey Lerner- Regional Director, Office of Political Affairs

Sara Lipscomb- General Counsel, Small Business Administration

Zach Liscow- Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers

Thomas Lopach- Senior Vice President, Congressional Affairs, U.S. Export-Import Bank

Sharon Lubinski- U.S. Marshall

John Marble- Public Affairs Specialist, Office of Personnel Management

Jeffrey Marburg-Goodman- Special Counsel to the USAID Administrator

Mercedes Marquez- Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development, Department of Housing and Urban Development

Kathy Martinez- Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy, Department of Labor

Michael Martinez- Special Assistant, National Resources Conservation Division, USDA

Mary Beth Maxwell- Senior Advisor, Department of Labor

Philip McNamara- Executive Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

David Medina- Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the First Lady

David Mills- Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement, Department of Commerce

Alison Nathan- Associate Counsel to the President, White House Counsels Office

Jeffrey Neal- Chief Human Capital Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Ven Neralla- Director of Priority Placement, Presidential Personnel

Dave Noble- White House Liaison, National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Matt Nosanchuk- Senior Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, Department of Justice

Dylan Orr- Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy

Joseph Palacios- Board of Visitors for WHINSEC

Paolo Palugod- Special Assistant to the Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division, DOJ

Peter Pappas- Chief Communications Officer for the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce

Raul Perea-Henze- Assistant Secretary of Policy and Planning, Department of Veterans Affairs

Drew Perraut- Policy Analyst, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB

Mark Perriello- Director of Priority Placement, Presidential Personnel

Gautam Raghavan- Deputy White House Liaison at the Department of Defense

Peter Roehrig- Special Assistant, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Constance L. Rogers- Deputy Solicitor for Energy and Mineral Resources at Interior

Donna Ryu- U.S. Magistrate Judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

Ellie Sue Schafer- Director, White House Visitors Office

Tarak Shah- White House Council on Environmental Quality

Amanda Simpson- Senior Technical Advisor to the Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security

Richard Sorian- Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, HHS

Campbell Spencer- Regional Director, Office of Political Affairs

Everette Stubbs- Deputy Director, White House Visitors Center

Nancy Sutley- Chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality

Jonathan Swain- Assistant Administrator, Small Business Administration

Kenneth Tolson- Member, President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities

Moe Vela- Director of Operations, Office of the Vice President

Alex Wagner- Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs

Douglas B. Wilson- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Department of Defense

William Woolston- Staff Economist, Council of Economic Advisers