On June 1, 2003, Carl Sciortino (at left in photo) defiled the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston by disrupting Mass to protest the Church's stance against homosexual "marriage". According to newspaper reports, Sciortino and his gay partner turned their backs to the altar during Mass, kissed, and held hands as they marched out. They then held a press conference on the steps outside, further denouncing the Church.

Sciortino has a long record as a militant homosexual activist.

Sciortino told the press his political experience at Tufts University (class of 2000) taught him to "challenge the status quo". No kidding! His radicalism there was legendary.

While at Tufts, Sciortino was co-chairman of the radical Tufts Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Collective (TTLGBC). Among their activities during that period:

• Demanded that the "culture" requirement at Tufts be satisfiable by Lesbian/Gay/Bisexual/Transgendered (LGBT)-related classes.
• Plastered the campus with flyers advertising a how-to seminar on anal sex, which also described proper lubrication and use of sex toys.
• Founded Rainbow House as official University residence for transgender, gay, lesbian and bisexual students.
• Promoted "Queer Pride Month" on the Tufts campus, turning April into "Gaypril".
• Put on a drag ball with a homecoming "king".
• Sponsored campus-wide homosexual coming-out days and queer history workshops.
• Held monthly meetings that included discussions of "Pornography and the Queer Community", "Monogamy, Polyamory, and You", and "Transgender: What we have to offer and learn".

In addition, Sciortino led the charge to demand co-ed dorm rooms at Tufts, arguing that single-sex rooms prove "institutionalized heterosexism and homophobia", putting gay students in awkward situations where they might have crushes on their straight roommates.

In a nationally publicized incident, he acted as advisor to a lesbian activist as she used the college judicial system to attempt to keep the Tufts Christian Fellowship banned from campus, after they would not allow her to serve as officer.

Since leaving Tufts, Sciortino's militant gay activism has continued, as co-chair of OutSomerville (a local homosexual political organization), and manager of research operations at Fenway Community Health (which distributes graphic flyers on gay sexual issues). He has been a speaker at the Safe Colleges Conferences ("Queers Living in Campus Dormitories"). And he perpetrated the anti-Catholic hate crime described above--disrupting Mass with protesters from QueerToday (a radical activist group).

After he disrupted Mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston, Sciortino's organization, "Queer Today", made the following statement: "The protest was sparked because of a hateful and anti-gay marriage statement issued by the four bishops of MA . . . The groundbreaking protest received nationwide attention . . . For the first time ever the word queer was seen and heard as a term of empowerment on countless media outlets, and boy are we proud of that!"

[Sources: Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Associated Press, Somerville News, Tufts Daily, Tufts Primary Source, Bay Windows, QueerToday.com, homosexual PAC websites]

A surprise primary campaign

During the summer of 2004, Sciortino began an unusually relentless campaign for State Representative in the Massachusetts 34th Middlesex District (Somerville, Medford) against long-time incumbent Rep. Vincent Ciampa.

But it soon became evident to MassResistance that Sciortino was being given enormous financial and organizational support from state and national homosexual political action committees. Money flowed in from across the country. By some estimates, over $200,000 was spent (ten times the normal amount for a state rep race). Out-of-state "volunteers" flooded into the district. Slick mailings went to every home each week.

It was clearly a professional, well-organized effort.  Hundreds of Sciortino "volunteers" came into the district for the campaign. It was run, in many ways, like a presidential primary, complete with sophisticated polling and phone banks in downtown Boston.

Some of the groups involved were: Freedom to Marry, the Mass. Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus, SupportEquality, Mass-Equality, OutSomerville, and Human Rights Campaign. In addition, the Gay & Lesbian Victory fund had a separate fundraising effort for Sciortino in Washington D.C.

During the campaign, they were very careful not to mention Sciortino's homosexual extremist history, or his radical plans. And the Boston media (newspapers, TV, even the talk radio shows) refused to bring it up or even discuss it, despite repeated communications from MassResistance (then known as Article 8 Alliance).

Early on, we advised Rep. Ciampa that he must expose Sciortino to the voters.  Unfortunately, he did not believe our descriptions of the full extent of what was happening until it was too late, and he did not take our advice. (He later acknowledged that he hadn't taken it seriously, and he should have listened to us.)

So in the Sept. 14, 2004 Democratic primary, Sciortino defeated Rep. Ciampa by a sliver of 96 votes! Since there was no Republican challenger in the general election, Sciortino was all set to enter the Massachusetts Legislature!  Thus, the gay movement's mission was to punish pro-marriage legislators like Rep. Ciampa. And put fear into the others.

After the primary, as news of Sciortino's true agenda came to light, a wave of outrage began to sweep through the district. On October 10, Rep. Ciampa announced he would run on Nov. 2 as a write-in candidate. And the gay activists announced they'll come back to stop him!  Unfortunately, it was too little too late, as Sciortino's vicious tactics and huge financial backing confused the voters, and the write-in campaign came up short.