Here’s how to effectively fight back against the out-of-control Massachusetts State Legislature that is taking away our rights

We need to end “informal sessions.”

This will completely derail the train! But it will take help from regular people. Read on!

April 17, 2024

 The Massachusetts State House needs to be cleaned out by the citizens!

The Massachusetts State Legislature should be protecting our rights and keeping the Commonwealth safe and well-run. But instead, it spends much of its time creating unnecessary laws and allocating money on agendas that take away citizens’ rights and liberties, diminish the quality of life, and destabilize the social order.

These outrages include:

• Nearly a billion dollars to house, feed, and provide other services to a flood of illegal immigrants.
• An extreme and oppressive anti-gun bill that is clearly unconstitutional.
• Mandating an extreme LGBT agenda throughout all school grades.
• Banning school libraries from removing obscene children’s books.
• Taxpayer funded “sex change” medical procedures.
• Eliminating nearly all restrictions on abortion and allowing girls of any age to get abortion without parents’ consent.
• Criminalizing the operation of pro-life pregnancy centers.
• Free in-state tuition for illegal immigrants.
• Forcing cities and towns to change their zoning to allow massive multi-family housing construction (ultimately for illegal aliens).
• Removing the word “mother” from birth certificates.
• Subverting our centuries-old voting laws to facilitate a range of voter-fraud activities.
• And much more.

What do these all have in common? None of it is being done because average people in Massachusetts are asking for it. All of it is being done to please well-funded political special interests. These special interests are skilled and aggressive at lobbying and have agendas that are completely disconnected from the desires of regular citizens. But they have far more influence over our legislators than the citizens who elect them.

At the same time that our legislators are expending so much energy to please special interests, they are outrageously “saving time” for themselves by unlawfully – and unconstitutionally – disregarding the proper duties they were elected to perform.

The fraud of “informal sessions”

The Massachusetts Legislature does something that no other legislature in the country does. The House and Senate both “pass” over 60% of their legislation in sleazy, unconstitutional so-called “informal sessions” that lack a required quorum. It is shocking to legislators in other states when they hear about it.

If you’re a bartender or teacher or grocery store worker, you have to go to work every day. But our elected legislators don’t want to have to do that. They don’t really feel like dealing with all the “boring” bills that they also were elected to consider and vote on. So over the years they’ve concocted a scheme that they’ve now shamefully institutionalized.

Here’s how it works:

The House has 160 members. The Senate has 40 members. The Massachusetts Constitution is clear and unambiguous: half of each body must be present for business to be conducted:

Article XXXIII.
A majority of the members of each branch of the general court shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but a less number may adjourn from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members. All the provisions of the existing constitution inconsistent with the provisions herein contained are hereby annulled.

The full House and Senate meet normally only once or twice a month where they debate and vote on the “important” legislation (that most of us dread). These are called “formal sessions.” But they only deal with a small number of the total bills before the Legislature.

Two or three times a week, the House and Senate also meet, but this time with only a tiny number of members (usually only 3 or 4 – though at least one from each party). There is obviously no legal quorum. But that’s where most of the bills before the Legislature get voted on. They quickly go through a long list at each meeting. It’s been pre-determined how they’re going to vote, and everyone votes the same way. (There’s no debate, and no roll-call votes.) This happens all year long. These are called “informal sessions” and treated as if they were legitimate.

You can actually watch the videos of these House and Senate informal sessions on the State House website.

 At this informal session on April 11, three State Reps are at the podium, along with staffers and guards at the sides, holding a session before an empty room. At the microphone is Rep. Sean Garballey (D-Arlington). Behind him are Rep. David Vieira (R-Falmouth) and Rep. Donald Wong (R-Saugus). They “passed” numerous bills that day.

How do they rationalize this outrageous charade? They “pretend” there’s a quorum by not formally taking a count of the members present, even though it’s obvious there isn’t one.

Everyone at the State House is in on the scam. It’s a grand collusion between both political parties, all the members of the Legislature, and all the Boston media. They all know what’s happening and choose to ignore it because it’s expedient for everyone.

We once asked the House legal counsel whether informal sessions are unconstitutional. He didn’t deny it; he simply said, “That’s how we do things here.” The head Boston Globe State House reporter told us the same thing.

When we ask legislators about this, even “conservative” Republicans tell us that it’s OK because all these bills are “non-controversial.” The fact that the Legislature is constitutionally required to do the job it was elected to do and properly vote on all these bills, as the legislatures in every other state do, doesn’t even matter to Republican legislators here.

Actually, many of the “non-controversial” bills are controversial to certain people. They deal with home-rule issues for towns, town charter changes, liquor licenses, and numerous statewide issues such as raises for state workers and the recent “move over” law for highways.

But they have one problem with that scheme – that we can take advantage of. If a member of the Legislature shows up at an informal session and announces, “I doubt the presence of a quorum,” then the lack of a quorum is publicly on the record. The meeting has to shut down (until the next time).

Occasionally that has happened! When Jim Lyons was a State Rep, he shut it down for days over secretive funding for non-citizens – and they finally gave in. In December 2023, Republicans temporarily stopped informal sessions by calling the quorum because the Democrats were pushing funding for illegal immigrants in those sessions. Even Democrats have done it. Rep. Paul McMurtry temporarily stopped informal sessions over a liquor license that the Legislature was blocking.

If the Massachusetts Legislature is going to take away our rights and liberties, we need to make them feel the pain. All informal sessions need to be shut down by calling the quorum.

Political experts have said that this will grind the Massachusetts Legislature to a halt. Good!

At the very least, make all the elected legislators actually come to work and do their jobs. Make them go on record that they are present, and how they cast their vote.

We already have one good Republican State Rep willing to do this. But he needs other Reps and Senators to join him. So far, none are willing to. That needs to change right now. They need to feel the wrath of the people. And the crooks who participate in these slimy “informal sessions” need to feel the heat from everyone. The end of all this sleazy government must start now!

If you are serious about helping change things in Massachusetts, we’ll let you know what to do, so please contact us right away!

REGULAR PEOPLE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24b/MA-Informal-Sessions/index.html

In Sri Lanka: Effort to repeal anti-sodomy statutes derailed, thanks to local MassResistance pro-family activists

Overcame intense pressure from UN and western nations to turn country pro-LGBT.

But now a new LGBT fight in Parliament over broad “gender” bills.

April 13, 2024

 Our activists in Sri Lanka are thrilled at this victory over Western cultural imperialism, and are getting ready for the next battle.

In August 2023, MassResistance reported that the country of Sri Lanka, a nation of religiously diverse people, was being pressured by Western countries to repeal its long-standing laws regarding homosexual behavior. The aim was to force Sri Lankan society to be “LGBT-friendly.”

The laws in question, which date from the British colonial period, criminalize “carnal intercourse against the order of nature” and “any act of gross indecency” between persons.

However, the prescribed penalties are rarely imposed. As in many locales around the world, these laws act as a barrier to keep homosexuality and transgenderism from being normalized and accepted in society.

Thus, LGBT behaviors cannot be taught in the schools or promoted to children or as part of any “sex education” curriculum. There can be no “gay marriage,” same-sex civil unions, or any gross public display of homosexual behaviors. Even “gender identity” ideology is banned.

Nevertheless, LGBT organizations are allowed to operate openly in Sri Lanka, and even hold “pride” prides. But they cannot include naked bodies or any of the other disgusting sights one sees at those events in Western countries, and the groups are not involved in any way with the government.

The intense efforts to repeal these laws came from the United Nations, along with public and private money from the US, UK, Canada, and other countries. They funded local LGBT groups to conduct an organized pressure campaign, and also exerted direct international political pressure.

 Gay Pride parade in Colombo, the capital city. It’s officially called a “Freedom Pride Parade,” apparently to avoid any possible problems regarding the current laws – but to demand their repeal. They haven’t been successful. [Photo: Kenya Christian Voice]

Since early 2023, MassResistance has been working with local leaders and pro-family activists in Sri Lanka to stop this repeal. We provided a detailed flyer outlining key reasons why the country should not repeal these statutes. We explained how it would lead to future problems. We documented how the proliferation of homosexual conduct and transgenderism harm individuals and overall public health.

Many pro-family organizations around the world gave up or kept quiet on this fight in Sri Lanka. But MassResistance was unwavering and continued to help Sri Lankans to stop this repeal in their Parliament. Our activists around the world contacted local churches, local leaders, and members of Parliament, urging them to oppose the repeal. We also connected with Catholic leaders from other countries, who worked with their colleagues in Sri Lanka.

The last big push came in February 2024. Key LGBT groups held a meeting with the Speaker of the Parliament. But by then the momentum was against them and their efforts fell flat.

After ten months of activism, the repeal effort has effectively died! Our activists have spoken with members of Parliament and local leaders, and according to all of them there is no appetite to move this bill forward.

Our key contact in the country, Dr. Eschan Dias, enthusiastically thanked MassResistance’s contribution! “I am most grateful to MassResistance for your love and support for this country,” he told us. But he added, “We need to keep up in intensity and velocity.” That’s because of the new threat in Parliament.

Two far-reaching “gender” laws filed

LGBT activists and their supporters in the country are now trying a new approach this year to push their LGBT ideology into the country. Two wide-ranging gender-related bills were announced a few weeks ago.

The “Gender Equality Act” would officially define “gender” in the nation’s law to include men and women who identify as transgender, and “any new identities that may emerge in the future.” This is clearly an open door to state-enforced radical sexual and ideological anarchy.

The “Women’s Empowerment Act” is being touted as an effort to allow more women to be in corporate and government positions. But in reality, this legislation would create and force quotas for women and different sexual “orientations” into broad areas of Sri Lankan corporate and public life. Dr. Dias discusses these bills more fully in a recent Substack article.

 As the Sri Lanka news media has reported, the President has caved in to the radicals. But the real power is in the Parliament. And we’re working for more victories there!

Relying on the same tactics the LGBT movement has employed in the UN and Western countries, activists are hoping to confuse lawmakers and shame opponents with general terms about protecting women’s rights and ensuring “gender equality” to push the destructive homosexual-transgender cause into the government and public square of Sri Lanka. (A key tactic is to use “gender” to mean both biological sex and “transgender” identities.)

But MassResistance understands exactly what is going on, and will not stand by and let the people of Sri Lanka – or their legislators in Parliament – be bullied and misled by misinformation and propaganda from the LGBT movement. We will make sure they are fully informed.

Final thoughts

The well-funded international LGBT movement, along with with the UN, private organizations, and Western governments, are determined to force those depraved values on vulnerable religious-oriented nations around the world. MassResistance will help their targets fight back against this cultural imperialism!

 Thix X post from our Sri Lanka team says it clearly!

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24b/Sri-Lanka-stops-repeal-of-good-laws/index.html

Father sues CA high school over rainbow flag in son’s classroom

Years earlier, the father was victim of homosexual rape.

MassResistance helped him deal with school officials after they ridiculed him and refused to change the flag policy.

April 4, 2024

 Officials at Venice High School in suburban Los Angeles acted despicably toward a traumatized family that did not want the LGBT agenda pushed on their sons.

The LGBT rainbow “pride” flag is worse than just an anti-Christian political symbol meant to normalize sexual perversions and disordered behaviors. It can also be traumatic to those who have been physically and psychologically damaged by that “movement.”

A horrible story

In 2022, Brian Selem, a father in suburban Los Angeles, contacted MassResistance.

He had a horrible heartbreaking story. As a teenager he had been drugged and gang-raped by a group of homosexual men on multiple occasions. He was naïve and an easy target for the perpetrators who groomed him. It was such dreadful experience that it took years before he could even process what had happened to him. He is now married with two sons in school. But it continues to be a terrible debilitating nightmare that, despite counseling and support, has affected his life intensely and never leaves him.

Brian is not alone. Since the so-called “gay rights” movement became institutionalized in America, hundreds of thousands of boys and men have suffered homosexual rape, according to reports. Even the pro-LGBT New York Times admits it: More than 100,000 men have been sexually assaulted in the military in recent decades. Yet the problem of homosexual rape is rarely covered by the mainstream media.

So, when Brian sees the LGBT Pride flag flying, it elicits intense disgust and revulsion in him. Many people are willing to understand that and respond to his concerns. For example, Brian’s barber took down the rainbow flags in his shop out of respect for Brian’s pain.

At his son’s high school: more pain and demeaning treatment

Unfortunately, school officials typically have no compassion or interest in the feelings of anyone who disagrees with their agendas. That negligence has directly affected Brian.

Brian’s sons attend Venice High School in the West Los Angeles area. One of his sons was enrolled in an English class where the teacher prominently displayed the LGBT pride flag in her class.

When Brian visited that classroom during Back to School Night in September 2022, he confronted the teacher about the flag. He described to her what had happened to him and how that flag is psychologically and emotionally triggering to him and family members. His son should not have to sit in class and have to look at it, he insisted to the teacher. And if nothing else, he asked, why aren’t other viewpoints allowed?

Initially, the teacher acquiesced and said she would take down the flag, though Brian noticed she smirked at another staffer in the room at the time. But the next day, Brian’s son informed him that the flag was still in the classroom. Brian’s wife also contacted the teacher to ask it be taken down, but was ignored.

It got much worse. A few days later, the teacher brought in a “Restorative Justice” lecturer to talk to the English class. The message was that homosexuals and transgenders are victims who deserve apologies or reparations in some form from the rest of society. The speaker brought up Brian as an example of an offender because he opposes the school’s view on homosexuality and transgenderism, and even disparaged his son. It was clearly meant to humiliate Brian and his son in front of the class.

Brian was very upset. He arranged a meeting with the school vice principal and guidance counselor to discuss what had happened. But both officials refused to comment or take any corrective action. Instead, they insultingly referred Brian to the school district’s Diversity Department for re-education. (How outrageous that a high school has an office dedicated to indoctrination!)

MassResistance helps Brian deal with the school

At that point, Brian contacted MassResistance and we discussed the situation with him at length. Since the high school principal was the final authority in that building, we suggested he should insist on talking with her – even though she may want to avoid dealing with him. We worked with him on making the meeting happen, and also on the points he should bring up and how he should deal with any objections, purposeful misdirection, or double-talk.

Brian had also found out that both his sons had been given homework, surveys, and other materials referencing anal sex, oral sex, and other LGBT behaviors. But Brian had notified the school several times in writing, as California’s opt-out law allows, not to expose his children to any sexual content, imagery, or activism. That was also to be brought up at the meeting.

Brian was able to meet with the principal on October 14, 2022. He talked in detail about his emotional situation and what had happened to him. But she appeared unsympathetic and was very uncooperative. She refused to give Brian details about the Restorative Justice speaker’s agenda or background. She would not address his other specific complaints. She simply acknowledged that what happened was wrong, and again referred Brian to the school district’s Diversity Department (as the others had done).

We continued to work with Brian, but the school officials closed ranks like nothing we’d ever seen before. It reeked of ill will and even seemed demonic, given what had happened to Brian and how their actions served to torment him.

Brian sues the school district!

In early January 2024, Brian’s lawyer formally filed a lawsuit in Superior Court against Venice High School and the Los Angeles Unified School District. Technically, the lawsuit is filed by Brian on behalf of his son.

The lawsuit cites eight California statutes that the school has allegedly violated in their treatment of Brian, their refusal to comply with the opt-out laws, their refusal to notify parents regarding speakers, civil rights and disability obligations, and other blatant violations.

The suit is asking for damages, citing intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligence. It is seeking injunctive relief, including compliance with all of the California statutes – and also removing all LGBT flags and other symbolism from all classrooms unless the district allows flags and symbolism of countering viewpoints alongside them.

We are awaiting the school district’s reply to this lawsuit. It should be interesting! We will keep you informed.

Final thoughts

This lawsuit is a commendable development – and something that needs to happen across the country! Brian is a true hero for everyone.

A lot of parents would back down to the hostility of the teachers and the stonewalling of the officials. They would also be reluctant to reveal such horrible and humiliating personal experiences in public. But Brian is not backing down. We wish more people had his strong principles.

We all know that the environmental poisoning in the high schools of America goes beyond flag displays. The intense promotion of all things LGBT – via the curriculum, GSA clubs, brainwashed staff, guest speakers, etc. – is toxic to everyone and must be rooted out.

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24b/Father-sues-school-over-LGBT-flag/index.html

Leftist library managers & staff quitting – after new Library Board in Idaho is elected & takes bold action.

Board votes to leave the ALA, is now crafting strong new book collections policy to protect children.

Ousted Library Board members and local leftists attempting to fight back, but can’t stop this train!

March 9, 2024

650 Branch of the Kootenai County Library system that’s losing leftist managers & staff over pro-family improvements by the new Board.

Yes, local activists can make a difference!

Back in July 2022, the Kootenai County, Idaho Library Board made news when our local activists finally had enough of the obscenity and pornography on the children’s shelves. The majority of the five Library Board members were hard leftists. The Library Director was a smarmy pro-LGBT social-justice warrior.

The Library Director had just finished defending a library book about 15-year-old girls who were molested by their fathers and became prostitutes. She said that parents’ complaints were “out of context” – a talking point frequently used by pornographers and LGBT activists.

One of the mothers stood up and lit into the Library Director. Among other things, she called her a pervert and a purveyor of smut and pornography to innocent children, and said she was “complicit in the degeneracy and degradation of society.”

 During the Library Board meeting this mother (standing at left) yells at the Library Director (seated at right).

At the next meeting the Library Director announced her resignation. The following month, the Library Board approved a new collection policy that banned some “obscene” children’s books while continuing to approve books promoting homosexual and transgender-themed sexual behaviors.

But the Board then replaced the exiting Library Director with an even more aggressively leftist and pro-LGBT director. This was clearly meant as a reprimand to the parents.

MassResistance continued working with them. We provided them advice and strategy, connected them with people in other states, and helped them work through ideas.

Electing a new conservative Library Board …

So in 2023, following a months-long education campaign across the county by the activists, the two leftist Library Board incumbents were voted out. They were replaced by people who had campaigned on dealing with the explicit materials.

Conservatives now had the majority, and the new Library Board Chairman was outspoken about removing all the obscenity that taxpayers were paying for.

… And changes take place!

The new Library Board got right to work:

• Within months, the new Library Board followed the lead of other libraries across the country and cut ties with the horrible pro-LGBT American Library Association.
• They are now drafting a very strong collections policy – modeled after the one in Campbell County, WY – that will keep taxpayers from having to pay for any harmful sexual material for children and teenagers.
• They have also started working on policies which allow them to evaluate, document, and discipline the Library Director if she defies the Board or does not comply with the policies.

The Left gets fried over pro-family changes

Not surprisingly, these changes have faced considerable pushback from local leftists. The local newspaper has repeatedly attacked the new Library Board majority as “far right.” Both of the former leftist Board members who lost the 2023 election have continued attending Board meetings along with other local leftists to complain. One has even threatened litigation against the new board.

 Leftist former Library Board member testifies before new Board complaining about pro-family changes and threatening litigation. [PHOTO: Coeur d’Alene/Post Falls Press]

But the new Library Board’s conservative members have stood tall. And local activists also attend every meeting to vocally support them.

The local grassroots group has continued to review what the Library Director and staff are bringing into the library to promote to minors – and report at the Board meetings. This has rattled both the library staff and upset the leftists.

More resignations!

The boldness of the new conservative Library Board and the relentless pressure by the local activists to have a “normal” library is having an effect.

Over the last month, two branch library managers and the library system’s communication specialist have resigned. And we suspect more will follow them. In addition, when the new policies are implemented, most people believe that it’s only a matter of time before the leftist pro-LGBT Library Director will be on her way out!

The road to having a “normal” library now is clear!

Final thoughts

Just a few years ago all of this would have seemed impossible in the Kootenai County library system. The leftists outnumbered conservatives on the Board 4-1. They were entrenched, arrogant, condescending, and unwavering. But focused activism can accomplish great things!

And it’s just as important not to allow the attacks from the Left (whether in person, online, or through the local media) to affect your resolve. These people are paper tigers. If you stand up to them they become surprisingly weak.

What people have forgotten about the “transgender” battle

How the big push began in Massachusetts in 2007 – and how MassResistance successfully held it off for years.

A history lesson from MassResistance – which was in this battle from the beginning.

The “T” in LGBT is nothing new. It was just held back until the time was ripe.

March 27, 2024

 In 2007 the Massachusetts Legislature had never dealt with any bill as radical as this. But we exposed it and stopped it for years.

Most pro-family people who are confronting the “transgender” (including “gender” ideology) surge in schools, libraries, health care, public accommodations, and other institutions are unaware of how it all came about. A surprising number of conservatives think that it was separate from the “gay” movement – which gives them an excuse for avoiding criticism of homosexuality in their schools and society. But what really happened?

Slowly introducing transgenderism – starting with children

Starting in the 1990s, Massachusetts led the nation in pushing the homosexual movement into its institutions – with California and New York not far behind. Not surprisingly, it started with that movement’s obsession with children.

During that decade, homosexual groups like GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network) and the state-funded Massachusetts Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth would reference transgenderism, and they would include teens dressed as the opposite sex at their “Youth Pride” events. One of the LGBT leaders was a “male-to-female” transsexual who headed the groomer organization BAGLY (Boston Alliance of Gay & Lesbian Youth).

 As far back as 1996 and 1998, the Massachusetts homosexual movement’s “Youth Pride” events included transgender youth.

Discussion of “gender” began to creep into a few classrooms in the more “progressive” towns – thanks to GLSEN trainings and Massachusetts Department of Education pilot programs in the schools. But in general there was a strategic silence, and transgenderism was kept on the back burner.

In 2007 – A very shocking bill is filed

At the beginning of the Massachusetts Legislature’s 2007-2008 session, one of our staff noticed that a shocking bill had been filed. It was a wide-ranging “transgender rights and hate crimes bill.”

Although some states had passed modest transgender non-discrimination laws, this was the first giant, comprehensive “transgender” legal salvo that we knew of in the United States (or anywhere else). It was frighteningly aggressive. It rewrote a range of statutes covering public accommodations, school policies, housing, employment, business, family law, government IDs, hate crimes, etc., to mandate the acceptance of “transgenderism.”  Offenders would be criminalized.

LGBT movement announces “full court press” to pass it

The key Massachusetts homosexual lobbying group MassEquality announced in the press that it considered “gender identity” the next step after having achieved “gay marriage,” and was preparing a “full-court press” in the Legislature to get the transgender rights bill passed. They noted that they were bringing transgender groups as well as other LGBT groups into the fight.

 The LGBT movement bragged that they were prepared to ram this bill right through the Legislature that year. But that didn’t happen.

(Interestingly, the article also quoted Brian Camenker of MassResistance saying, “If the Legislature even thinks about passing this, they’re going to see an outrage like they’ve never seen in a long time. It is, in our opinion, one of the most dangerous bills ever filed.”)

MassResistance’s 125-page document exposing everything (and predicting the fallout)

After studying the bill, MassResistance got right to work educating the people in Massachusetts exactly what was in it and how it would reorder society.

Over several months, our research director, Amy Contrada, put together a 125-page compendium titled, “The Coming Nightmare of a ‘Transsexual Rights and Hate Crimes’ Law in Massachusetts: Why Bill H1722 Must be Defeated.”

It began with a detailed analysis of the entire text of the bill showing how the current laws would be changed. The main body of the document included chapters on the seven major areas of society that the bill would affect – lengthy descriptions of how the homosexual and transgender movements had already infiltrated them, and where this bill would move that agenda forward. It’s still considered the most thorough analysis of the LGBT movement in Massachusetts of that period.

 It took months to prepare and was extremely throrough. It educated a lot of people both in and out of the State House.

The Massachusetts LGBT movement reacted angrily to the document. The homosexual newspaper Bay Windows (now online as Edge Media) published an article titled, “Contrada warns of trans apocalypse.” They railed about her prediction that protections for undefined “gender identity” would lead to not only cross-dressing, but inability of venues to refuse trans-related events, public nudity, BDSM, and demands for legalization of polyamory (all of which have since happened).

 LGBT newspaper accuses MassResistance and Amy Contrada of making outrageous predictions – which became true!

Massive sham public hearing on transgender bill

On March 8, 2008, the bill’s public hearing before the Judiciary Committee took place. It was basically a massive propaganda march, well-orchestrated by the LGBT lobby.

It was a sham. The leftist leaders of the Judiciary Committee had clearly colluded with the LGBT activist organizations. The hearing began at 1:00 pm. Throughout the entire day and into the evening, it was panel after panel of pro-transgender people. They were not given a time limit for speaking.

 When the public hearing got going at 1:00 pm that day, the room was so packed that people could hardly move.

The LGBT movement pulled out all the stops for that hearing. The endless “panels” of pro-transgender speakers included: the numerous legislative co-sponsors of the bill, the Suffolk County Sheriff, members of the Massachusetts Bar Association, medical “authorities” including the infamous Dr. Spack (founder of Boston Children’s Hospital “gender” clinic); various politicians; law school students; labor union representatives; ACLU attorney Harvey Silverglate; a panel focused on “hate crimes”; leftist clergy; a parents panel; numerous panels of women with beards and men in dresses; and many more.

 Three women with facial hair, posing as males. Woman at left began by announcing: “I am a female with a beard,” and said she is a Unitarian Universalist minister. All three complained that they were treated badly by others at work or school, and that a law was needed to rectify that.

It wasn’t until 10:30 pm that any pro-family people were finally allowed to testify – and most of them (and most of the Judiciary Committee) had already gone home. The pro-family people were held to three minutes for their testimonies.

 This is what the room looked like at 10:25 pm, when the first pro-family citizen was finally called up. The majority of the people you see here are pro-family people still waiting to testify, though most had already left. Committee staff acknowledged that they made pro-family people wait until the end.

MassResistance fought back!

As huge as the LGBT push at the public hearing was, it was only witnessed by the people who were in the room at the time. After the hearing, our lobbying effort geared up.

MassResistance gave a printed copy of our 125-page report on the bill to every Judiciary Committee member. We also included medical documentation (that the politicians clearly didn’t want to see). Links to the report were sent through the State House and across Massachusetts. The pressure from our side became intense. We made sure that people across the state vented their outrage to their own legislators and the leadership about how this bill would push a perverted agenda on everyone under threat of legal action.

The bill is stopped in committee!

March 19, 2008, two weeks after the public hearing, was the deadline for deciding whether bills in the Legislature would move forward or be killed. It was announced that day that the transgender “rights” bill (as well as other bad bills on the docket) were stopped! It was a great pro-family victory and an embarrassing setback for the LGBT movement.

Final thoughts

It took the LGBT movement four more years – until 2012 – to finally get a weaker version of that bill passed (without the “public accommodations” section, which took an additional four years for them to get). It was still a hard fight for them. MassResistance led opposition to it. But they were able to do it because the governor and the entire State House leadership was completely in the tank and had promised the LGBT movement it would happen. And after Massachusetts passed its transgender rights law, similar far-reaching bills were passed in several other states.

 

Signing of Trans Rights bill in 2012: The weirdness continued. Posing for photos with Governor Deval Patrick (center front) and Attorney General Martha Coakley (right front) are a woman with the butch cut (left front) and four men dressed as women behind them. Directly behind governor with white shirt and blond hair is transgender activist man, “Ashley Bottoms,” who targeted a Peabody, Mass. restaurant with his gang of men dressed as women.

Transgenderism and “gender identity” have always been part of the “LGBT” homosexual movement. (The platform from the 1993 “gay rights” march on Washington confirms that early alliance.) “Transgender rights” was simply their next step after achieving “sexual orientation” non-discrimination laws and “gay marriage” in Massachusetts.

The “T” was just kept quiet. That incrementalist strategy worked. One example: Schools started with GSA school clubs that were “gay/straight alliances” – which later transformed into “gender and sexuality alliances.”

But today, most conservatives see gender ideology and transgenderism as a distinct and new battle, particularly in the schools. We’ve even seen national parent groups that rail vehemently over “pronouns” and transgender counseling for children – but have no problem with homosexual propaganda in their schools.

If you’ve been in the battle since the beginning – as MassResistance has been – you understand the truth: It’s all one movement. And it’s all obsessed with other people’s children. Conservatives must confront it with that understanding, and not shy away from the homosexuality issues.

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/How-the-trans-push-grew/index.html

Canadian government continues to pummel pro-family activist Bill Whatcott for “anti-gay” flyer he passed out in 2016! Facing trial again for the same “hate speech” charge – after acquittal.

Judge ruled “not guilty” in 2021. But government appealed for 2nd trial, and Canadian Supreme Court agreed. “Double jeopardy” is legal in Canada.

Whatcott continues to stand strong – a principled inspiration for all of us.

March 20, 2024

 Bill Whatcott has been persecuted and tormented by the Canadian government for simply telling the truth about a politically protected subject – but stands by his principles.

Bill Whatcott is one of those people who ultimately helps change the world for the better. Many people talk about fighting back against the radical agendas degrading society – but back off when the government (or the Left) threatens them. Bill Whatcott takes his Christian faith seriously and refuses to back down!

 Bill Whatcott speaks at Pastor Artur Pawlowski’s church in Alberta in Dec. 2018 about the LGBT movement’s assault on rights in Canada.

The details of this outrageous situation are documented by MassResistance here.

The “crime”

In 2016, Bill and his friends registered to march in the Toronto Gay Pride Parade as members of the “Gay Zombies Cannabis Consumers Association.” Marching in the parade wearing masks and green body suits, they passed out flyers to the crowds of onlookers. The flyers warned of the horrible medical consequences of homosexual behavior and contained Bible verses. (Publication of the flyer has been banned in Canada by the courts. MassResistance has made it available.)

 The “Gay Zombies” marching in the Toronto Gay Pride Parade. Note the contingent of naked men right behind them.

 The “Gay Zombies” handing out flyer packets.

The “gay pride” parade itself was incredibly disgusting and revolting. Among other things, there were contingents of completely naked men marching in front of and behind Bill’s group, in full view of children and everyone else. (This was a clear violation of Toronto’s nudity laws, but that was ignored by the police and authorities.) The parade also included bigoted anti-Catholic and anti-Christian imagery. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had no problem with any of this and marched in the parade.

 Also in front of them this group of completely naked men was marching. The authorities ignored them. See a 39-second video clip here.

After the parade – attempted LGBT civil lawsuit against Bill

A month after the parade, a group of prominent Canadian homosexual activists filed an absurd $104 million civil lawsuit against Bill – and anyone who financially supported him. They were seeking damages for “defamation” and “hate speech” against the parade participants and the Toronto LGBT community. To make their point, they announced the lawsuit in the press room of the Canadian National Parliament in Ottawa.

 LGBT activists hold press conference in the press room of the Canadian Parliament building on August 12, 2016 to announce their $104 million lawsuit against Bill Whatcott.

But the lawsuit was dropped by the plaintiffs in 2018 when they learned Whatcott had neither personal funds nor wealthy donors.

Bill’s arrest for “hate speech”

There was clearly an obsession that Bill must be severely punished.

In 2018 (two years after the parade incident), when it was clear the multi-million-dollar lawsuit was failing, the Ontario government stepped in. The Ontario Attorney General formally charged Bill with “willful promotion of hatred.” Because Bill was living in Alberta, they put out an over-the-top “nationwide warrant” for his arrest (a procedure usually reserved for dangerous criminals and fugitives).

When Bill heard about it, he simply turned himself in at the Calgary police station. At the station, a group of Bill’s supporters, including noted Canadian pastor Artur Pawlowski, gathered to show support.

 Bill Whatcott (center) with well-known Canadian Pastor Artur Pawlowski and Amy Contrada of MassResistance on the day he turned himself in to the Toronto police. (Amy was the lone American reporter to cover Bill’s arrest.)

 Some of the two dozen Christian protesters outside of the Calgary Police Station supporting Bill Whatcott as he comes to turn himself in.

Around the time of his trial (2021), overwhelming numbers of actual crimes were simply being dismissed (due to Covid confusion), including approximately 80% of the drug offenses in Ontario and 43% of the DWI offenses, as well as assaults, theft, and others. But the government insisted on spending upwards of a million dollars prosecuting Bill Whatcott for passing out a flyer.

The trial – and the verdict

Attorney John Rosen was considered the best criminal defense lawyer in Canada. In an incredible stroke of luck, he agreed to take Bill’s case. Rosen was also able to get public funding for his fee, since Bill had no money.

 Ontario Superior Court, the scene of an absurd criminal trial – over the text of a flyer passed out several years earlier!

The trial began on Oct. 4, 2021. During the 8-day trial the government threw everything they had at Bill. They even brought in a prominent medical expert to “debunk” the facts on his flyer. But Attorney Rosen was absolutely brilliant in his defense. He even proved how the medical expert was wrong in her assessment! And he brought in a university theologian who testified that Bill’s flier reflected Christian belief.

On Dec. 10, 2021, the judge announced his verdict: Not Guilty! He wrote that the flyer was “obnoxious” and “offensive,” but did not legally constitute “hate speech.” He added the obvious: that if Bill had truly intended to promote “hatred toward gays,” he would not have picked a gay pride event to do so!

Even with Canada’s absurd “hate speech” laws (and lacking our First Amendment), the Crown could not make a convincing argument against John Rosen’s rock-solid defense.

One would have thought that all this nonsense over a flyer that was handed out in 2016 would finally be over. But no.

The Crown successfully appeals to have a second trial

In the U.S., “double jeopardy” is unconstitutional. But in Canada, the government can appeal a “not guilty” verdict and force a second criminal trial. Even so, everyone was shocked when two weeks after Bill’s acquittal the government filed a “notice of appeal.”

Several months later, in October 2022, the Crown submitted a formal 45-page appeal describing its reasons why the judge “erred” in his verdict.  On May 16, 2023, Attorney Rosen submitted a 37-page rebuttal to the appeal.

One of the reasons given for the appeal was that the judge declined to allow “expert testimony” from a homosexual activist college professor on the subject of “tropes of anti-gay discrimination” allegedly contained in Bill’s flyer. (These are simply the professor’s opinions and not grounded in Canadian law. This professor is also a self-declared authority on “expert kink” and “queering social networks.”)

On August 11, 2023, the three-judge Appellate Court (not surprisingly, all leftists) released a 34-page ruling unanimously accepting the appeal and ordering a new trial for Bill!

Attorney Rosen then filed a further appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada. But on February 15, 2024, the Supreme Court announced (also not surprisingly) that it declined to take the case. So Bill must go through a second criminal trial.

The current situation

It’s looking very tough for Bill, but he’s standing as strong as he can.

He has been forced to quit his job in Alberta and move to Toronto to begin preparing for his new trial, which will likely commence in June or July. He hopes to find a place to live in Toronto with friends.

Attorney John Rosen has retired. His law firm may or may not represent Bill this time, since there is no public funding for him at this point. The Ontario Attorney General’s office has virtually unlimited funds and intends to do whatever it can to send Bill to prison. All this over a flyer that was passed out eight years ago.

Final thoughts

This whole bizarre situation is very serious. Bill’s persecution is intended as a warning to all Canadians to keep silent on LGBTQ issues.  It is raw government censorship.

A society under siege must have people like Bill Whatcott willing to fearlessly stand up for free speech and push back on the government’s stranglehold on its citizens.

But people like Bill also must not be left to dangle in the wind. They need strong support from the national pro-family community. Sadly, that is not happening in Canada. Not a single major Canadian pro-family group is coming to Bill’s aid and confronting the Ottawa Attorney General (and other officials). They are apparently “embarrassed” that Bill is taking on the LGBT issue so directly. And only one major Canadian conservative news organization, LifeSiteNews, has even written about Bill’s appeal and double-jeopardy second trial.

But MassResistance is behind Bill 100%! We will keep you informed and do our best to keep up the pressure.

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Whatcott-facing-second-trial/index.html

Wyoming MassResistance publicly rebukes RINO State House establishment’s leftist talking points against pro-family legislation.

Former Wyoming GOP House Speaker pushes the compromised mentality in newspaper column.

But Wyoming MassResistance parents respond with common sense!

February 26, 2024

 He’s still using his influence to push the RINO leftist agenda in conservative Wyoming. But MassResistance lashed back!

Conservatives in nearly a dozen Western “red” states are fuming about this: Even when there’s a super-majority of Republicans in their state legislature, it’s difficult to pass common-sense pro-family bills that the Left opposes. It seems a lot of Republican legislators, especially in leadership, are covert liberals – and the voters have not paid sufficient attention. This phenomenon has even gotten national press.

It’s a particular problem in Wyoming, where the legislature has only 8 Democrats out of 93 members. Wyoming voters recently booted RINO Liz Cheney from Congress, but the State House is still full of traitors to the GOP.

 

This is how bad it is in Wyoming. They might as well just elect a Democrat legislature! [Source: Wyoming Freedom Caucus]

What’s going on in the minds of these phony Republicans? Too many of them started out ideologically muddle-headed, and then bought into the leftist talking points. Unfortunately, not enough citizens confront that rubbish. But Wyoming MassResistance decided to step up!

Former GOP House Speaker attacks pro-family bills

Tom Lubnau is the former Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives in Wyoming. He was also the State Rep from Gillette, which is a solidly conservative area. Lubnau now occasionally writes columns for Cowboy State Daily, a popular right-leaning statewide news and commentary site.

Lubnau was (and still is, given his continued influence) part of the problem.  Earlier this month, he wrote an absurd column attacking the efforts by actual conservatives in the legislature to protect children from the lunatic LGBT agenda that is engulfing society.

Titled, “Legislating Private Parts Is Popular This Legislative Session,” it reflects the odious mentality of the RINO establishment. Lubnau bashed three much-needed pro-family bills that were before the legislature at that time (but unfortunately did not pass):

• Bill HB 50 defined a man and a woman by their actual biology, not their so-called “gender identity.” It also defined “father” and “mother” and would have restricted use of women’s public restrooms and locker rooms to actual women. These clear definitions are necessary because the Left has forced its radical “gender” ideology into public spaces (and even public documents).
• Bill HB 68 would have repealed the obscenity exemption for schools, libraries, etc. As everyone knows, depraved school and library officials are using this exemption to freely distribute horrible pornography to vulnerable children without the legal penalty that the rest of the general public faces.
• And Bill 88 would have made it illegal to publicly display, exhibit, or post, etc. obscene material where others can easily see it. The text of the bill referred to physical spaces, not electronic communication.

Ridiculous leftist arguments

Lubnau made the preposterous claim that these bills are about “regulating private parts” and “people’s bedrooms.” He equated these bills to the anti-sodomy laws (which outlawed certain perverted private sexual acts) – even though all three bills were about obvious public issues.

Lubnau claimed that legally defining “mother” to be a “parent of the female sex” and “father” to be a parent of the male sex “seems strangely reminiscent of an Orwell novel.” He stupidly had it exactly backwards. Orwell wrote about government changing the language to support lies, not reinforcing our language to tell the truth!

To attempt to bolster his “private parts” argument, Lubnau brought up a “right to abortion” bill, HB76, which was sponsored by Democrats but had little chance of passage and had nothing to do with the others.

Wyoming MassResistance strikes back with a rebuttal

When this column came out, it certainly became a topic of conversation in Gillette!

Lubnau is a well-known GOP leadership figure writing in a major statewide conservative publication. The column was an embarrassment to the people in his district.

So our two Wyoming MassResistance chapter leaders in Gillette, Ed and Susan Sisti, wrote a rebuttal. Titled, “Legislating Public Consequences is Essential to Civil Society,” it was published in Cowboy State Daily last week. (For some reason it’s labeled a “Letter to the Editor” even though it’s the length of a normal op-ed article.)

Our Wyoming MassResistance chapter leaders didn’t pull any punches. They excoriated Lubnau for trafficking in “the weak arguments of corporate lobbyists and libertarian accommodationists.” In particular, they directly took on his absurd “private parts” reasoning:

People’s private lives used to be private, but now LGBT activists insist on making their private lives—and private parts—very public.

From the obscene books in public libraries, to the explicit curricula in public schools, to the very public displays of obscenity, depravity, and debauchery in PRIDE parades and festivals, Wyomingites (especially their children) cannot escape other people’s pushing their privates in public spaces.

And they concluded with:

The whole LGBT agenda has gone from the bedroom to the boardroom and is now invading the classroom.

If homosexuals and transgenders would have kept their privates private, there would have never been a need for the legislature to engage public debates to seek public consequences to stem the health, moral, and cultural collapse which has ensued.

Needless to say, the reaction from local conservatives has been overwhelmingly positive. People are thanking the Sistis and Wyoming MassResistance for stepping up and confronting the RINO mentality that has taken over their legislature – and telling the truth!

Final thoughts

Readers may recall our report several months ago on Idaho MassResistance parents confronting their RINO State Rep who voted against a bill to protect children in libraries. His “No” vote kept the bill from becoming law in Idaho! He tried to defend his vote using some leftist talking points he likely picked up in the State House, but the parents aren’t buying it at all. These legislators need to be directly challenged.

 Idaho MassResistance mother confronts her RINO State Rep with the porn being pushed in libraries.

This needs to happen across the Western states. Legislators must be directly held accountable for their actions and their statements. MassResistance is committed to helping local pro-family people turn this terrible problem around!

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/WY-MR-rebukes-RINO-politician/index.html

In Ghana: MassResistance helping pro-family group set up anti-LGBT clubs in every secondary school!

To counter the spread of LGBT propaganda from Western countries to African youth

February 20, 2024

 Meeting of the Bueman SHS Anti-LGBTQ Youth Club in Jasikan, Ghana.

MassResistance is continuing to help countries around the world fight the international culture war!

Across America, high schools (and even middle schools) have LGBT clubs for children and teenagers. These “clubs” promote homosexuality, transgenderism, and other LGBT behaviors to the kids they attract, and spread it through the entire school. The clubs go by names like “Gay-Straight Alliance,” “Rainbow,” or “Gender Sexuality Alliance” club. They’re every parent’s nightmare.

In Ghana, pro-family people have seen this and they don’t want it happening there. So far, Ghana has stood tall against it. But recently there’s been intense pressure from wealthy Western countries to make Ghana (and the rest of Africa) succumb to the radical LGBT agenda being swept into their society.

 Ghana was a British Crown colony until 1957, so English is spoken there.

A few months ago, the head of Ghana’s leading pro-family organization, Freedom International, contacted MassResistance. He told us:

In Ghana the appetite for LGBT practice is insignificant because majority of our people and institutions are boldly against homosexuality.

The good news is that the Parliament of Ghana is determined to pass a bill against LGBT, having read it the 2nd time. This has angered the Western countries and their agents. Sadly, the United Nations and the World Bank are uncomfortable with Ghana’s stance against LGBT thereby making all sorts of ugly noises!

As a country we are prepared to resist the hypocrisy of the wealthy nations. But we need MassResistance to partner with us in ensuring that the wealthy nations of the world don’t use their financial strength to bully us into submission. Therefore, we are ready to forge a partnership with MassResistance against LGBT activities in Ghana.

We are encouraged by your timely intervention in Sri Lanka and we are confident that you will not disappoint us in resisting those disobeying God who Himself condemns homosexuality as a SIN.

Finally, we are seeking your permission to post some of the materials in the Issues column of your newsletter on our website.

Many thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

Frank Mackay Anim-Appiah
Executive Director
Freedom International

Since then we’ve worked with Freedom International to move forward! One of the first things that foreign-funded groups do in an African country is attempt to indoctrinate youth with LGBT ideology. So the most important project would be make sure that children are well prepared to reject it and proclaim the truth. Frank and his group decided that the best way to do this would be to form “anti-LGBT clubs” in every secondary school – just the opposite of what the West does!

Frank and his team have been working with teachers across the country. They have already set up clubs in a few schools – and more are on the way!

 Another meeting of the Bueman SHS Anti-LGBTQ Youth Club

As Frank has reported back, they are going strong. The clubs meet for two hours per week. They use resources by MassResistance, Freedom International, and other pro-family groups. Students often are divided into smaller groups for effective teaching and learning. Healthy relationships are a key part of the learning. The other key goals are to expose, confront, and stop the LGBT propaganda coming from the multinational corporations and foreign embassies.

Parts of the curriculum is devoted to training in both writing and public speaking skills. Selected works will be published in the Freedom International quarterly publication The Resistor Newsletter. They will also organize inter school youth club debates at the district, regional and national levels. Outstanding students will be awarded token prizes to be sponsored by potential sponsors.

 

The Executive Members of the Bueman Club

 Faculty advisors of the Bueman club

Frank has big plans beyond that. Each year, he told us, Freedom International will arrange with the Ministry of Education and the Ghana Education Service to co-host a forum for students to tell their stories and showcase the progress made in the prevention of homosexuality in our schools, as well as the truth about the causes and effects of homosexuality and transgenderism.

MassResistance is thrilled to be helping Frank Mackay Anim-Appiah and Freedom International with this important project in Ghana.

Final thoughts

Note that the government in Ghana is supportive of this effort, not opposed to it!

This groundbreaking effort is also the right direction for the rest of Africa – and beyond. In fact, with this example, MassResistance is brainstorming on setting up similar clubs in schools the United States.

https://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen5/24a/Ghana-anti-lgbt-school-clubs/index.html

Wisconsin MassResistance team stops “cancel culture” attempt by local school officials against activist’s job

Not only did he keep his job, but company president apologized to him!

Pro-family people aren’t standing for this anymore!

February 14, 2024

 Caleb, one of our great MassResistance activists in Kenosha, Wisconsin testifies before the School Board about how the school’s obscene books hurt children terribly. He got targeted by officials!

Across the country, leftists try to punish pro-family people for speaking out by threatening and harassing their employers to get them fired from their jobs.

As a result, conservatives often silence themselves in fear. But not our Wisconsin MassResistance team!

For the past eight months, our Kenosha, Wisconsin group has been speaking forthrightly and protesting at School Board meetings. They’ve been pushing for parental notification and parental rights policies. They are demanding that all the LGBT programs and indoctrination be removed from the schools – including the obscene and sexually graphic books in the school libraries.

 

The local Wisconsin MassResistance people were relentless – and the school officials hated that!

The parents were able to get the district to remove some books from the school libraries. But then, near the end of 2023, the School Board doubled down and set up an ad hoc committee to review one of the most egregious books, All Boys Aren’t Blue. Among other depravities, the book describes in sexually explicit detail a ten-year-old boy being raped by his older male cousin. People across the country are sickened by this book.

The five-person committee to review this pornographic book was made up of three school staff members, a homosexual parent “married” to another man, and one conservative parent. The committee voted 4-1 to keep the book in the school.

Attempt to cause an activist to lose his job

But that wasn’t the end of it. One of our activists, Caleb, had been particularly vocal at School Board meetings about the obscene materials. He also filed book challenges with the school district. After they decided to keep All Boys Aren’t Blue, two prominent school employees who were on the ad hoc committee – the principal of the high school and a school district library director – decided to punish Caleb and get him fired from his job at a local restaurant.

After hearing rumors about this, Caleb approached his manager, concerned that his job was in jeopardy. She told him that the president of the group that owns the restaurant had been approached by the principal and library director. They told the restaurant group president that if Caleb continued to work there, the school district would likely stop using the restaurant for its catering, events, and other business. They accused Caleb of publicizing their personal phone numbers. (Caleb had never done so and was able to prove that.)

MassResistance activists were outraged when they heard this! Dozens of them let the restaurant know in very strong terms that if they fired Caleb, they would make sure that the entire community would know never to eat there. They were relentless with this messaging through social media and other venues.

Two days later the president of the group that runs the restaurant called Caleb and the restaurant manager into a private meeting. He apologized to Caleb for what he had been through and assured him that his job was secure!

Afterwards, the restaurant manager – who is also a Wisconsin MassResistance member – told Caleb that if he had been unfairly terminated, she would have given two weeks’ notice and quit.

But this story isn’t finished

The high school principal and the district library director acted abominably and inexcusably. They had no authority to make those threats to the restaurant – that the school district would cease doing business with the restaurant unless Caleb was fired. Both of them need to be fired.

That will likely be the subject of the next School Board meeting. Public employees must not be allowed to intimidate community members. They cannot deviously act to cause people to lose their livelihoods. The Wisconsin MassResistance team is not backing down one inch.

Final thoughts

First, this incident shows how important it is for pro-family people to take on the Left without fear – and not simply back down in the face of harassment.

And secondly, it reinforced how many of the people running our schools are personally depraved and emotionally deviant sociopaths. No normal person would want that pornographic book anywhere near school students. But these people are aggressive about wanting children exposed to it. And they believe they have the right to interfere in other people’s lives.

The whole corrupt education system needs to be confronted.

Christian UPS driver takes on the corporation over extreme LGBT and anti-Christian work environment.

Confronted pro-LGBT Teamsters Union that was supposed to help him.

Filed multiple grievances with UPS, the union, and federal agencies EEOC & NLRB.

We need more like him across America.

February 7, 2024

 

When employees are at work in UPS facilities during Pride month, this is what is broadcast up above them.

As we all have seen, corporate America has become militantly pro-LGBT and anti-Christian over the past few decades. Unfortunately, most pro-family people who work for these companies have become too frightened (or compromised) to complain, much less fight for their rights.

This is the story of one man who decided he wouldn’t take it anymore, and fought back all the way to the top.

James Earls has worked at UPS for 35 years and is a devout Christian. He has received some of UPS’s highest awards for safety and loyalty. He is a driver of a large UPS “feeder truck.” He lives in Alabama and is represented by Teamsters Local 402. He recently brought the details of his efforts to MassResistance.

 

James with his awards from UPS for loyalty and safety.

When most people think of anti-Christian and pro-LGBT companies, they think of Target, Amazon, Bank of America, the NFL, Delta Airlines, etc. But UPS is right up there with them. If you work there, you’re bombarded by the “woke” propaganda. However, since UPS is mostly not a “retail” operation, its huge support for anti-family causes is mostly hidden from view, so the public rarely sees that side of the company.

“Pride Month” at UPS

During the celebration of Gay Pride Month a few years ago, James entered the UPS facility in Madison, Alabama. UPS was showing its support and dedication to the LGBT movement by broadcasting images on all its large hanging TV monitors in various workstations, on its social media sites, and on the employee training computers throughout the building. If employees wanted to check on their benefits, paycheck, retirement funds, and other HR-related information, they had no choice but to navigate through the images promoting LGBT pride.

 When employees log into their UPS portal, they get the constant propaganda.

In addition:

• The UPS website featured several stories about “transgender” UPS employees who had undergone their “transition” procedures, and the company was actively promoting that agenda.
   “Transgenders” get celebrated at UPS for “authenticity.”
• UPS runs an in-house Pride Alliance Business Resource Group to elevate LGBT employees within the company and fund their participation in LGBT events across the country.
• Over the past two years the UPS Foundation has donated $1.2 million to advance the LGBT movement globally, including huge donations to the staunchly anti-Christian LGBT Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and StartOut. UPS proudly brags that HRC names UPS as one of the “best places to work for LGBTQ+ equality.”
• In 2022, UPSers volunteered nearly 10,000 hours to support the LGBTQ+ community.
• UPS partners with the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce to fund and support “certified LGBTQ+ businesses” across America

But most disturbing, James told us, “I discovered a link to a company that UPS had partnered with and was promoting called GayPrideCalender.com. That site sold homosexual merchandise from a print-on-demand business site, Zazzle.com. On their website, they sold sickening, blasphemous items, including shirts that depicted Jesus Christ as a radical homosexual who seeks sex with men.”

 Shirt for sale to UPS employees.

 … and these magnets.

 

Various fetish flags for UPS employees to order.

UPS support for other horrible causes

James started looking closely at UPS’s other activities, and things looked even worse.

UPS is heavily invested in “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity” (DEI) throughout the company. It has created an internal Equity, Justice & Action Task Force to deal with “unconscious bias” among employees. The company president commissioned an enterprise-wide salary review to support “pay equity” based on race and other factors.

UPS’s charitable arm has funded Planned Parenthood in several states, numerous far-left churches (including a “gay” Catholic group), Black Lives Matter, the ACLU, SIECUS (which pushes radical sex ed in public schools), and other anti-Christian and anti-American causes.

UPS is also a partner of the World Economic Forum and agrees with its “climate crisis” outlook.

All of this reveals UPS management’s orchestration of a frighteningly hostile climate of discrimination against Christians, conservative Americans, and white males in general that everyone (except James) was afraid to address.

UPS claims to support its employees’ civil rights

Interestingly, UPS has numerous company-wide policies that purport to protect its employees’ civil rights. But they’re basically just a smokescreen for doing the opposite.

For example, the company states that it supports the United Nations’ “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights,” which strictly guarantee “social and cultural freedom,” and the right to be treated “with dignity and without discrimination” regarding religion and sex.

There are also “Zero Tolerance” postings in UPS buildings which state: “Don’t display offensive language, symbols or images on your personal belongings or on company property … If you experience discrimination, sexual or racial misconduct, use our Open Door Policy to raise issues with your management team.”

So James fights back!

The company was clearly breaking its own rules, particularly during “Pride Month.” Someone needed the guts to test UPS’s obvious hypocrisy. James had had enough. And he wasn’t afraid. He decided to formally complain and demand UPS follow its own rules – through whatever manner he could find.

1. Contacting officials. As James told us, “To bring resolution to this with no further unpleasantries, I first tried to use UPS’s Open Door Policy and contacted UPS’s CEO, Carol Tomé, along with local Teamsters 402 General President Sean O’Brien about these issues.” But nothing came of that.

2. Filing grievances through the union. Since he was represented by the Teamsters Union Local 402, he filed four separate grievances through them, as laid out in the company’s collective bargaining agreement, directly addressing various aspects of the problem.

Unfortunately (as many of us know), the Teamsters long ago embraced the LGBT agenda and other leftist, anti-American ideologies. When the formal hearing for James’s grievances took place – with a room full of representatives from the UPS and the union – James was shocked. Not only did the union not advocate for him, but they treated him with hostility, as did the UPS representatives there. One union rep nastily said to James at the hearing, “If working at UPS was so bad, why continue to work there?” James lashed back at him. As he told us:

It got ugly real quick. I told him that I had a right to work in a hostile-free environment just as much as their beloved homosexual employees did. I told him that I have a right to work there and that I want to work in a place that is free from this hatred towards Christian employees.

 Unfortunately, this is the face of the Teamsters Union these days.

Not surprisingly, James later received a letter from the union telling him that all of his grievances were denied.

But James really got their attention like no other employee had! He stood up and clearly presented his evidence for all the grievances, describing in detail what UPS was doing to its employees – to the stone faces of the union and company officials.

3. Formal NLRB complaint against the union.  A few days after receiving the letter from the union denying his grievances, James filed a formal complaint with the National Labor Relations Board against the Teamsters Union. He cited the hostility towards him by his union at the hearing, and their inappropriate behavior which clearly showed that he was not being fairly represented. The NLRB acknowledged receiving the complaint but ultimately took no action, though surely the union was made aware of it.

4. Formal complaint filed with federal EEOC. The day after James filed the NLRB complaint, James filed a discrimination complaint with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). He cited Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which bans religious discrimination in the workplace. He described how UPS is maintaining a hostile workplace by promoting the homosexual culture and images that mock the Christian faith – but denies equal time for Christian culture and imagery anywhere at the company. Similarly, the EEOC acknowledged receiving the complaint but took no action, though surely UPS was made aware of it.

Here’s the result …

Moving a massive worldwide corporation like UPS is too big a task for one man. But James did make a difference. The website link to the disgusting anti-Christian LGBT merchandise and pride event calendar was taken down and has not re-appeared.

And James has not suffered any retribution from anyone at the company, in any form. They obviously know that he means business and will never back down!

Final thoughts

A big reason why we all suffer from the corporate promotion of perversion is that too many employees are afraid to stand up for what’s right. America needs more men like James Earls!