In Massachsetts, Even the GOP Is Too 'Gay Friendly' for the Right
by Kilian Melloy
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=104891 (http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=news&sc3=&id=104891)
The mainstream success of a moderate Republican gubernatorial candidate and his openly gay running mate has incensed some on the fringe right. Massachusetts-based right-wing group MassResistance has taken aim at the Republican nominees for the upcoming gubernatorial race in that state, with text at the group's site referring to Charlie Baker and his running mate Richard Tisei as "RINOs," or Republicans in Name Only, and branding them as "extreme" and "anti-family."
The anti-gay group MassResistance opposes marriage equality and has attacked GLBT advocates for, among other things, seeking safer schools legislation for fear that it might "promote homosexuality" by banning anti-gay bullying in schools. An individual associated with the group also wiretapped a meeting of GLBT youth in 2000 even though state law forbids the making of recordings without the knowledge and permission of those being recorded. The resulting "fistgate" tape was then broadcast on local radio, and MassResistance has continued to make a cause celebre of the illegally made recording since then.