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  <updated>2008-08-07T16:00:53-05:00</updated>
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    <title>Right Sees &quot;No Democracy&quot; in Massachusetts&#039; Elected Legislature</title>
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    <published>2008-07-16T17:00:13-05:00</published>
    <updated>2008-08-07T16:00:53-05:00</updated>
    <author>
      <name>Ezra</name>
    </author>
    <category term="Americans for Truth" />
    <category term="Anti-Gay" />
    <category term="Brian Camenker" />
    <category term="Massachusetts" />
    <category term="MassResistance" />
    <category term="Peter LaBarbera" />
    <category term="Peter Sprigg" />
    <summary type="html"><![CDATA[<p>As California prepares to vote in   November on whether to keep same-sex marriage, the Massachusetts legislature is <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/us/16gay.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/us/16gay.html">reconsidering the Jim   Crow-era law</a> restricting out-of-state gay couples from marrying if their   home state prohibits it. Repeal of the 1913 law passed the state Senate Tuesday   with no objections. And the far Right is furious.</p>
<p>Brian Camenker of MassResistance <a title="http://anonym.to/?http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=179446" href="http://anonym.to/?http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=179446">called   yesterday&rsquo;s voice vote &ldquo;cowardly&rdquo; and &ldquo;sleazy,&rdquo;</a> &nbsp;claiming that gays had <a title="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=69748" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=69748">taken over the   state</a>:</p>
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<p>[Camenker] watched his state senate   in action and described it as &quot;completely orchestrated&quot; by homosexual   activists.</p>
<p>&quot;It was horrible,&quot; he said. &quot;It was   as if the gays were playing them like a violin.&quot;</p>
<p>The voice vote, &quot;was just a sort of   murmur and that was it,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>&quot;I'll tell you there's no more   democracy in Massachusetts, no constitutional government. They were completely   being run by the homosexual lobby,&quot; he said.</p>
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<p>Camenker warned that repeal of the   restriction would &ldquo;<a title="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=69346" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=69346">cause   havoc</a>&rdquo; for other states, and Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About   Homosexuality called it &ldquo;<a title="http://anonym.to/?http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=174716" href="http://anonym.to/?http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=174716">a   recipe for chaos</a>.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>&quot;Obviously, what the homosexuals are   trying to do is to create a tidal wave for homosexual...marriage, build up a   number of states [that] are allowing either civil unions or   homosexual...marriage, and then have a favorable case before the Supreme Court,   which grants this nationally,&quot; explains the pro-family activist, noting that   only a Defense of Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution could prevent the   court from doing that.</p>
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    <content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>As California prepares to vote in   November on whether to keep same-sex marriage, the Massachusetts legislature is <a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/us/16gay.html" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/us/16gay.html">reconsidering the Jim   Crow-era law</a> restricting out-of-state gay couples from marrying if their   home state prohibits it. Repeal of the 1913 law passed the state Senate Tuesday   with no objections. And the far Right is furious.</p>
<p>Brian Camenker of MassResistance <a title="http://anonym.to/?http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=179446" href="http://anonym.to/?http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=179446">called   yesterday&rsquo;s voice vote &ldquo;cowardly&rdquo; and &ldquo;sleazy,&rdquo;</a> &nbsp;claiming that gays had <a title="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=69748" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=69748">taken over the   state</a>:</p>
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<p>[Camenker] watched his state senate   in action and described it as &quot;completely orchestrated&quot; by homosexual   activists.</p>
<p>&quot;It was horrible,&quot; he said. &quot;It was   as if the gays were playing them like a violin.&quot;</p>
<p>The voice vote, &quot;was just a sort of   murmur and that was it,&quot; he said.</p>
<p>&quot;I'll tell you there's no more   democracy in Massachusetts, no constitutional government. They were completely   being run by the homosexual lobby,&quot; he said.</p>
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<p>Camenker warned that repeal of the   restriction would &ldquo;<a title="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=69346" href="http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;pageId=69346">cause   havoc</a>&rdquo; for other states, and Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About   Homosexuality called it &ldquo;<a title="http://anonym.to/?http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=174716" href="http://anonym.to/?http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=174716">a   recipe for chaos</a>.&rdquo;</p>
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<p>&quot;Obviously, what the homosexuals are   trying to do is to create a tidal wave for homosexual...marriage, build up a   number of states [that] are allowing either civil unions or   homosexual...marriage, and then have a favorable case before the Supreme Court,   which grants this nationally,&quot; explains the pro-family activist, noting that   only a Defense of Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution could prevent the   court from doing that.</p>
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