The legislators sponsoring this disgraceful bill and supporting the work of anti-gay Holocaust deniers are listed below. If your legislator is listed, you must contact them and demand that they withdraw their sponsorship of Bill S321 — Parental Notification. A legislator may have his/her name removed from a Senate Bill by sending a letter of request to William Welch, Senate Clerk, Room 335, State House.
Rep. Bruce Ayers (D-Quincy)
Rep.BruceAyers@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2460
Rep. Jay Barrows (R-Mansfield)
Rep.FJayBarrows@Hou.State.MA.US
617 722-2425
Rep. Thomas Calter (D-Kingston)
Thomas.Calter@state.ma.us
617 722-2425 x7310 C: 781 831-3221
Rep. Robert Coughlin (D-Dedham)
now in Gov. Patrick’s administration. Call his assistant Sarah MacDonald at 617-788-3649
sarah.macdonald@state.ma.us
Rep. Vinny deMacedo (R-Plymouth)
Rep.VinnydeMacedo@hou.state.ma.us
617 722-2100 or 508 224-7572
Rep. Stephen DiNatale (D-Fitchburg)
Rep.StephenDiNatale@Hou.State.MA.US
978 342-0110
Rep. Paul Donato (D-Medford)
Rep.PaulDonato@hou.state.ma.us or RepDonato38@aol.com
617-722-2960 or 781-395-1683
Rep. Joseph Driscoll (D-Braintree)
Rep.JosephDriscoll@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2460
Rep. Lewis Evangelidis (R-Holden)
Rep.LewisEvangelidis@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2263
Rep. Christopher Fallon (D-Malden)
Rep.ChristopherFallon@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2430 or 781-321-5553
Rep. Paul Frost (R-Auburn)
Rep.PaulFrost@Hou.State.MA.US
617-722-2489
Rep. Susan Gifford (R-Wareham)
Rep.SusanGifford@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2090 or 508-295-5999
Rep. William Greene (D-Billerica)
Rep.WilliamGreene@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2210 or 617-722-2215
Rep. Robert Hargraves (R-Groton)
Rep.RobertHargraves@hou.state.ma.us
(617) 722-2305 or 978-448-5456
Rep. Bradford Hill (R-Ipswich)
Rep.BradHill@hou.state.ma.us
617 722-2489 or 978 356-9008
Rep. Donald Humason (R-Westfield)
Rep.DonaldHumason@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2803 or 413-568-1366
Rep. Jeffrey Perry (R-Sandwich)
Rep.JeffreyPerry@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2396 or 508-888-2158
Rep. George Peterson (R-Grafton)
Rep.GeorgePeterson@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2100 or 508-839-1000
Rep. Elizabeth Poirier (R-North Attleborough)
Rep.ElizabethPoirier@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2976 or 508-695-3296
Rep. Karyn Polito (R-Shrewsbury)
Rep.KarynPolito@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2230 or 508-845-2300
Rep. Richard Ross (R-Wrentham)
Rep.RichardRoss@Hou.State.MA.US
617-722-2305
Rep. Daniel Webster (R-Hanson)
Rep.DanielWebster@hou.state.ma.us
617-722-2487 or 781-826-6712
Sen. Scott Brown (R-Wrentham)
Scott.P.Brown@state.ma.us
(617) 722-1555
Sen. Robert Hedlund (R-Weymouth)
Robert.Hedlund@state.ma.us
617-722-1646
Sen. Bruce Tarr (R-Gloucester)
Bruce.Tarr@state.ma.us
(617) 722-1600
If you don’t fight for your rights, who will?
Go. Tell your legislator, if he’s on this list of cosponsors, to stop being on the wrong side of history.
Been seeing his name a lot lately.
It would prevent gay kids with unsupportive parents from receiving unbiased information in health class, from attending GSA meetings, from receiving handouts or viewing posters or displays about sexual orientation, and even from receiving private counseling in a school setting. It even includes a provision that would inhibit survey research about kids’ feelings of victimization or suicide.
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You can imagine how gay, lesbian or transgendered kids might be made to feel by a law including a definition of alternative sexual behavior that lumps any mention of their existence in with discussion of illegal activities like pederasty and prostitution.
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The noxious content of this legislation says volumes about what the haters behind it want: to make as many gays and lesbians as possible disappear, by whatever means available.
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This is but the latest action from a group that claims the Day of Silence is “intimidating” and “coercive.” So the wingers start a so-called “Day of Truth” in which they encourage their kids to actively proselytize, in class, their very special religious agenda, and hand out leaflets full of distortions and lies.
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But that’s neither intimidating nor coercive. Oh nooooo. Not at all! Why? Because they spread their lies and bigotry out of a loving concern for their opponents’ immortal souls, dontcha know.
I’m surprised Calter’s on there… he should be one of the good ones. I wonder if he knew what he was signing.
…the old NYTimes gay rights board was that, scratch a homophobe, and you will find either a racist, or an anti-semite, and in many cases both.
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It is interesting to note that in 2002 and 2003 the US Holocaust Memorial Museum held an exhibition on the Nazi persecution of homosexuals. Before that, the Nazi persecution of homosexuals had largely been ignored
but that said, I’m glad to read that it wasn’t the actual legislators denying the holocaust, though that people are still supporting it after the arguments that show its absurdity is saddening.