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| Modern Minutemen: Brian Camenker |
| Parents' rights activist, wrote Parental Notification Act Website: www.MassResistance.org |
| About Brian Camenker Brian Camenker -President, MassResistance For over 15 years, Brian has been a leading activist for parents’ rights in the schools. In the mid-1990s, he founded the Parents’ Rights Coalition of Massachusetts, and got the current Massachusetts Parental Notification Act passed. After the “homosexual marriage” court ruling in 2003, he led an effort to remove the four judges responsible. In recent years, his grassroots activist network--now MassResistance--has been forced to confront the radical homosexual agenda in our schools and larger society. Brian is recognized as the most fearless, outspoken, direct, and honest voice on these issues. Brian’s earlier career was in the high-tech corporate world. (SOURCE--MassResistance.org) |
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| Group wages battle against gay culture By STEVE LeBLANC, The Associated Press Published: Saturday, Jul. 1, 2006 The Nashua Telegraph BOSTON – The minute they spotted the mannequins in Macy’s department store window celebrating the city’s Gay Pride week, Brian Camenker and the watchdog activists at MassResistance jumped into action. The group quickly posted a photo of the window on their Web log under the caption: “Male mannequins with (apparently) enlarged breasts, one wearing a rainbow skirt.” Within days, Macy had removed the mannequins but left up a list of pride week events. It was the latest victory for a group dedicated to battling what it characterizes as the aggressive gay and lesbian movement in Massachusetts, the only state to allow same-sex marriage. The group continues to find ample fodder in that war, taking on gay-themed school texts, exposing what it says is the seamier side of the gay rights movement and nearly convincing Gov. Mitt Romney to eliminate a state commission for gay youth. “The homosexual stuff is the 800-lb. gorilla in the room when you’re talking about education,” Camenker said. “People feel that as a society they’re under assault – that you can’t walk down the street anymore without having this in your face.” The group has become the bane of gay-rights activists in Massachusetts who consider Camenker and his supporters the “lunatic fringe” obsessed on the more extreme elements of gay culture to deny rights for all gays across the state. But as Massachusetts lawmakers prepare to consider an amendment to the state constitution banning gay marriage later this month, Camenker remains unapologetic, saying he represents the state’s true silent majority. He even opposes the amendment, saying there’s nothing wrong with the constitution, what’s wrong is it’s interpretation by the state’s highest court. “We are sort of purists on this. We don’t believe that the constitution needs to be amended because the constitution is not flawed,” he said. “John Adams didn’t make a mistake and forget to put gay marriage in the constitution.” Camenker – a 53-year-old Newton man who is married with two teenage children – has a long history of taking on charged topics in Massachusetts. One of his earliest forays came when he publicly protested a new sex education curriculum in his hometown of Newton. By the mid-1990s, Camenker’s Parent’s Rights Coalition had successfully championed a parental notification bill giving parents the option of pulling their children from sex-education classes. In 2000, Camenker’s group again made headlines, secretly taping graphic sexual talk – such as whether to use condoms and how to have oral sex – during a workshop for gay teens. Gay activists denounced the secret taping, which cost two members of the state Department of Education’s HIV/AIDS awareness program their jobs because of the explicit nature of the talk. One of the workers later sued and was given her job back. But the 2003 ruling by the state Supreme Judicial Court – which paved the way for the nation’s first legal same-sex marriages – took Camenker’s fight to a new level. He vowed to oust the four members of the state’s high court who voted in favor the ruling, again raising the ire of gay activists. “Brian Camenker and MassResistance is the fringe of the fringe. They are bottom feeders,” said Marc Solomon, campaign director at MassEquality, a coalition of gay-marriage rights advocates. “I really don’t get it. It’s an obsession. He spends more time looking at gay Web sites than anyone I could imagine.” Other gay activists grudgingly acknowledge Camenker’s talent at generating publicity. “His group is pegged by the gay community like a lunatic fringe, but I don’t see it that way,” said Tom Lang, co-director of KnowThyNeighbor.org, a Web site that publishes the names of individuals who sign anti-gay marriage petitions. Lang said he has had a few long conversations with Camenker in an effort to understand him. “Maybe he really just doesn’t understand what a gay person is like,” he said. “I can’t imagine he’s that hateful.” Camenker says that far from being on the fringe, he speaks for a vast swath of people too intimidated to take on the radical “homosexual agenda” on Beacon Hill, in the schools, or in the cultural life of the state. “There is a huge group of people who are very upset about what’s been going on in the social sphere,” he said. “I don’t think the powers-that-be in Massachusetts realize the emotion that this thing had gone way too far and it’s got to stop. I don’t think they have a clue.” |
| Brian Camenker (Photo/AP) |
| Current projects Current project: Trying to stop the proposed “Super Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth” On Friday the Massachusetts Legislature released its 2007 state budget. It includes a massive, unprecedented increase in taxpayer funding for homosexual programs in the public schools -- to upwards of $2 million or more! But in addition, the Legislature has taken the already-poisonous "Governor's Commission for Gay and Lesbian Youth" (which oversees the spending of most of that money) and super- charged it. It will be expanded and given new powers to raise and spend money and use state resources. It's membership will be required by law to include homosexual activists selected by the major gay-activist groups. And this new Commission will be, by law, independent from normal governmental control! If you think things are bad now with gay clubs in schools, mandatory homosexual assemblies, and homosexual picture books in Kindergarten -- things will get much worse if we don't stop this. YES, THIS CAN BE STOPPED! Step 1: Gov. Mitt Romney has until Monday, July 10, to veto this. Make sure he gets that message and does it! Unfortunately, Romney's office is not returning our calls and emails regarding this matter. But you'll recall that back in May, when the gay activists wanted him to stop his action to disband the Governor's Commission for Gay and Lesbian Youth, he immediately backed down and did what they asked. So . . . Gov. Romney needs to be reminded that if this won't fly in the "red states" it won't fly here, either. Contact Governor Romney's office. Tell him that he must veto ALL money in the 2007 budget for homosexual programs in the public schools, and veto the new Commission for Gay and Lesbian Youth. We do not want ANY taxpayer money going to homosexual activists so they can push their agenda on the schoolchildren of Massachusetts. He needs to get that message! (SOURCE--MassResistance.org) |
| Harassment incidents David Parker’s son beaten up on 2nd anniv of “gay marriage” http://www.massresistance. com/docs/events06/parker_son _incident/index.html {MassResistance volunteer) Amy’s home broken into, credit cards used to harass: http://www.article8. org/docs/issues/harrassment/g aston28.htm |
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Separatists in India's north-eastern state of Manipur have shot six male teachers in the leg for allegedly helping students cheat in exams. Two women teachers were beaten with sticks for the same offence, the rebels of the Kanglei Yana Kan Lup group said. The teachers were abducted from their homes after an exam on Thursday. The rebels said the teachers took up to 5,000 rupees ($110) for helping students cheat and warned of further punishment if the cheating continued. The Kanglei Yana Kan Lup (KYKL) is one of many separatist groups fighting Indian administration in Manipur. It said it abducted the eight teachers from their homes in and around the state capital, Imphal, because of reports they had taken bribes. --By Subir Bhaumik - BBC |
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