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With the District of Columbia Council voting 12-1 to recognize homosexual “marriages” from states where homosexual marriage is now legal - Massachusetts, Iowa, Vermont and Connecticut, the House and Senate now have the opportunity to directly affect the future of same-sex marriage in a U.S. District.

If they approve it, it  will then go to the president for his signature. However, if Congress does not act on the bill by June 6, it automatically becomes law.

It appears that Democrats will not allow a vote on the bill. By doing this, they will keep their members from having to go on record as being for or against recognition of homosexual marriage. All Democratic members of Congress can then go back to their districts and tell their constituents that they would have voted against the bill if they had been allowed to vote.  But with Democrats solidly controlling both houses, as well as the White House, such a claim would hopefully ring hollow in the ears of their constituents.

The strategy is very similar to what state legislators did in Massachusetts in 2006. Facing a state-wide referendum to repeal the Goodridge “gay marriage” case, the legislature was under constitutional obligation to approve the referendum for the ballot.   The state Attorney General had certified that more than enough signatures had been presented to lawfully place the item before the voters.

The legislature simply ignored the referendum, whereby violating the law and the state constitution, and adjourned the Constitutional Convention without addressing the issue.  So same-sex marriage remained in place by their inaction, rather than by observance of the lawful democratic practice.

Now Democrats in the U.S. House and Senate appear to be following the same pattern.

FOLLOWING IS PUBLISHED BY THE MASS FAMILY INSTITUTE.

In an irreverent and despicable act, the radical homosexual activist group “Join the Impact” today infiltrated the sacred Granary Burial Ground at Park Street Church in Boston chanting and blowing horns in protest of a conference at the church. The conference was for pastors by Exodus International, one of the leading organizations promoting freedom from homosexuality.

This is the cemetery where the remains of John Hancock, Paul Revere, Samuel Adams, Benjamin Franklin’s parents and the victims of the Boston Massacre have their final resting place.

The leader of the group used multiple loud horns and sirens on the megaphone, hoping to disrupt the meeting inside, but in the end only dishonoring the patriots buried nearby. One protestor even used chalk to write two slogans on the wall of the burial ground.

MFI President Kris Mineau released the following statement:

“As a citizen, I am completely appalled by the total disrespect that these protesters showed toward not only Park Street Church, a historic house of worship, but also for the hallowed remains buried on this ground.

“As a conference attendee, I can tell you that not one hateful word was uttered. To the contrary, each speaker conveyed compassion, support and understanding for men and women who are trapped in homosexual attractions or behavior.

“While every citizen enjoys First Amendment rights to protest, I must object, in the strongest terms, to the desecration of the cemetery by these protesters, and call on the leaders of the state and national homosexual advocacy groups to condemn their behavior.”

With the arrest of City councilor Chuck Turner Thursday, many community leaders in Boston are claiming that his arrest, as well as that of State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, may have been racially motivated.Both were filmed accepting $1,000 bribes by FBI agents in a corruption probe involving the granting of liquor licenses.

Both Wilkerson and Turner have been leading civil rights activists over the years.

In front of Turner’s district office, covered with campaign signs that read, “Chuck Turner: Bold, Bald, Bright,” supporter Eudora Clayton was incredulous when asked about the charges.

“I think it’s a witch hunt, like the KKK is alive and well in Boston,” she said. “They can arrest him, but they can’t see what some of the other politicians are doing right in front of their eyes.”

However, for many, the “racism” card is one that is being played once too often.  Wilkerson claimed several years ago, when a significant amount of money had disappeared from her campaign funds that the money was used to hire unnamed body guards to protect her from racists.

When Turner was going to be fined in 2005 for refusing to shovel the walkway in front of his house after a snow storm, he claimed that in his African-american neighborhood “the reality is the cultural practice is not to use the sidewalks even when the snow isn’t there.”  There’s a good racial excuse for you.

For Turner, everything is race. Commenting on Condoleezza Rice working for George W. Bush was “similar in my mind to a Jewish person working for Hitler in the 1930s.”

Wilkerson, when she faced perjury charges relating to manslaughter charges against her nephew, likewise thought racism was the underlying cause.   Eventually, perhaps her conviction on tax evasion for which she served under house arrest will be blamed on racism too.

Turner and Wilkerson would like everyone to see their arrests as a “black vs white” issue.  The problem isn’t race.  The problem for them is that for most of us, bribery is “right vs. wrong” issue.

With a vote to remove her looming ahead, State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, resigned Wednesday from the office she held for nearly 16 years, in yet another scandal.

Scribbling out a terse, two sentence resignation letter, she handed it to President of the Senate at 9:45 in the morning, and left the chambers.

“Everybody is breathing a sigh of relief,” said Senate minority leader Richard R. Tisei, a Wakefield Republican. “Now that Senator Marzilli (who is accused of sexually assaulting numerous women) and Senator Wilkerson have both left the Senate, we can start to move on and hopefully restore people’s confidence in this institution.” Good luck with that Senator.

Wilkerson’s latest charges involve her taking over $23,000 in bribes from Federal agents posing as private citizens seeking liquor licenses. Hidden cameras caught her stuffing the money into her bra. Wilkerson also served time under house arrest for tax evasion, and in 2006 was under investigation for perjury in the case or her nephew being charged with manslaughter, and fraud with respect to her campaign finances. She has consistently been one of the ring leaders who have flagrantly ignored the state Constitution with respect for the people’s right to vote on a marriage amendment. With all of that, the big question is: “What took so long?”

How is it that the state of Massachusetts not only tolerates, but awards chairmanship positions to felons who consistently violate the law in the most grievous of fashions? We have a U.S. Senator who murdered a girl while in office, a Congressman who ran a gay prostitution ring out of his townhouse in Washington (who also happened to have been the mastermind of our current financial crisis, as well as a big contributor to why the 9/11 terrorists were able to stay in this country before the attack) , and some of the most incompetent and crooked individuals in state government that have ever been seen, yet we can barely muster up an opponent to run against any of them in any election.

In many, if not most of the state races in this state, we see a Democrat incumbent running unopposed. In the Federal offices, the threat of opposition is nullified by the incumbent simply refusing to debate their opponent, thus keeping any challenger off the radar screen.

The resignation of Wilkerson is just what one might call the “low lying fruit”. We have a very, very long way to go before we the average law abiding citizen can have any respect for the office holders from Massachusetts.

Showing less than “Solomon-esque” wisdom, President Elect Barack Obama announced the appointment of Eric Holder to the position of Attorney General, the top dog for the Department of Justice.  Holder served as deputy attorney general under Pres. Bill Clinton, during his final term.

If it were a contest, Holder could easily win the prize for being the attorney “most likely to help the bad guy get  away” award.   He did so with such vigor and finesse that even the late Johnny Cochran of O.J. Simpson fame would have to give him credit.Keep in mind that it was during Holder’s watch that the Justice Department recommended that Clinton NOT take out Osama Bin Laden in the Sudan, even though special ops were in sight and ready to go.

Holder had a primary and active role in the pardon of tax-evading Marc Rich, the 16 FALN terrorists (all who even Holder acknowledged were unrepentant), and the pardons of Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans, who were members of the Weather Underground, and worked with Bill Ayers bombing U.S. government facilities.

In 2002, a congressional committee reported that Holder was a “willing participant in the plan to keep the Justice Department from knowing about and opposing” the Rich pardon in particular. In my legal dictionary, there is a phrase that is used to simply the sentence “willing participant in the plan to keep the Justice Department from knowing”.    The phrase is simply “Obstruction of Justice”, and that is a felony.

When you bill yourself as the great agent of change, and your most important appointments, before you even get into office, are cronies from previous administrations who are still, to this day, dogged with allegations of misconduct, one has to ask what is the nature of this “change” that we are so anxiously awaiting.   Obama never answered that question during his campaign. He is answering it loud and clear now.