Life at the villa The “loggia” in the home of Alexander Westerhoff (left) and Tom Lang is dotted with early 18th-century European sculptures and storied antiques. (Photograph by Eric Roth)
Featured in Boston Magazine in 2008, this is a fairly stylish pic… that is, until you get into what goes on in that home.
According to MassResistance,
The palace has been a base for harassing opponents of “homosexual marriage”. One of its owners, Tom Lang, is the infamous cyber-bully behind the “KnowThyNeighbor” web site, which published the names of anyone who signed the pro-marriage referendum petition in Massachusetts a few years back.
I’m sure Boston Magazine knew that.
So what does that have to do with anything? Ask Scott Brown.
Sen. Scott Brown has done many things recently to publicly show his disdain for the pro-family people who supported him. But this is probably the most personally offensive.
As the Boston Herald reported this week, Brown went out of his way to contact hardcore anti-family homosexual activist Tom Lang and give him (and his “husband”) a personal invitation to the Obama’s signing ceremony in Washington D.C. of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” repeal. Lang had been part of the homosexual lobby’s huge 10-month effort to persuade Brown to abandon his position against the repeal, and switch to supporting it. Brown apparently decided to reward him for his success.
I don’t know how many times I told you Scott Brown is a back-stabbing RINO who can’t be trusted. Brown blew off the Boston Tea Party last April 15th because he obviously didn’t want to be on the same stage with Sarah Palin in front of conservatives who elected him.
This, along with his numerous votes along side Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe, should be the last straw?
Should be….
“I don’t know how many times I told you Scott Brown is a back-stabbing RINO who can’t be trusted.”
I, for one, was convinced of it even before you told us. But, it was reassuring to have you confirm my suspicion/conviction.
I was glad when he won just because of who’s seat he was taking. I did not like him enough to send money to his campaign. Glad I did not. I knew he was squishy from a lot of the answers he was giving to questions asked. However, the main reason I did not like him was because he was pro abortion.
The lesser evil?
As for Lang, he confirms their agenda is not about tolerance, but about normalization of a deviant behavior, which offers no value to society nor to the human species. It is a behavior which is entirely and exclusively self-indulgent.
Buy some gay voters, because you think you have the non-progressive pro family vote locked up. Will Howie Carr’s listeners back him with money and/or volunteers as they when “Brown raised $1.3 million from over 16,000 donors in a 24-hour money bomb?” (Wikipedia) Listening to the callers, they may by default vote for him, but no time or money next time. Another of the RINOS headed for extinction.
Conservatism needs to go on safari, hunting RINO’s! There careers could be hung on trophy walls all over the USA!
Can you imagine how much better off this country would be if we could prevent the east coast from sending any representatives to Washington.
Didn’t take Brown long to completely sour, did it.
Someone has convinced these RiNOs that they can get more gay-agenda votes than they can from mainstream Republicans.
On DADT Scott kept talking about “his 31 years of military service” as a basis of expertise on what soldiers want. Right Scott, your 31 years of going to weekend drills and avoiding deployments, and NEVER spending more than 2 weeks away from home.
I’m amazed how quickly someone who was grateful for support, signature gathering, standouts in the cold, and contributions turned into someone JUST as uppity and arrogant as a Kennedy, a Kerry, a Pelosi, or oBummer himself.
Folklore talks about how quickly the DC bug bites, but with Scott we’ve watched it in real time.
Suggest a new name for RINOs — I suspect that “virtual Democrats” can’t be beat.
Oh for God’s sake Parks, this is all you’ve got? Somehow Senator Brown is now some big gay-supporter? He turned coat with the Tea Party which by the way cannot even seem to define itself let alone any of the Republicans that it “claims” to have put in office? To even begin to suggest that Scott Brown is owned by you and that you have control over him is as equally absurd as any lgbt activists claiming that their emails and letters “pressured” Brown into voting for the Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.
Senator Brown is his own man. He listens to his constituents but like any good statesman he is doing what he feels best for this state and this country. The Repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was the correct and the Right thing to do. Unfortunately not more Republicans showed leadership here and joined Collins, Snowe and Brown.
And bringing up the fact that Senator Brown’s people made it possible for me to attend this event and witness the signing…what are you trying to allude to there? I was proud to attend this event as a citizen of Massachusetts and proud of my Senator(s) especially Senator Brown. Every person to whom I introduced myself when they heard I was from Massachusetts brought up Senator Brown’s name and spoke of him with equal pride.
You will never get it will you? You and people like Kris Mineau have your little schtick going on and never once step back and take a good look at what it is doing to others, this country and yourselves. You are both so consumed by “politics” for what it can do for you and your narcissism that you don’t see the big picture.
Dear Tom,
“…this is all you’ve got?” ??This is sufficient.
It doesn’t take long for Scott to show his true colors, does it? It’s nice to know you think of Scott Brown as “his own man”, but he represents HIS VOTERS, not himself. The people elected him to do a certain job, and it’s this attitude of “he can do what he wants” that Americans can’t stand. Oh yes, we see the “big picture”. You aren’t in it, BTW…
Time to take out the garbage, I guess. Again.
Igor
Keep up your “little schtick”, Bob. Tom can go play with himself.
Scott Brown was elected by the people of Massachusetts. DADT Repeal was representative of close to 70 % of the voters of Massachusetts. The National Tea Party Movement may have raised money for Brown but “it” does not represent the Commonwealth.
It is amazing how the Tea Party says it isn’t bigoted or racist and yet it continues to walk a different walk.
Oh and Parks, as long as you post referring to my husband in quotations, I will refer to you being a “person” in quotations also.
Oh and Lang, the reference to your husband was a direct quote from the linked-to MassResistance post. I’d assume you’re smart enough to know this. Don’t be so defensive. You won, get over it.
What a horrific article demonizing Tom Lang and Scott Brown. DADT needed to go. Saying Lang is “anit-family” is a crock of bull shit. Simply because he doesn’t have a “wife” surely doesn’t make him anti-family. The look of “family” has changed over the years and consists of many different roles and responsibilities. Simply because his “family” looks different from the outside doesn’t mean that it is any different. Lang isn’t a “homosexual” activist. He is fighting for the civil rights for a minority group. How is what he does any different from those of yesteryear? I take offense to what was said in this article. Brown isn’t a Senator JUST for the Republicans……..he is a Senator for ALL residents in Mass. A MAJORITY of the voters wanted DADT repealed. Just because he refused to be your puppet doesn’t mean you and the MINORITY of ultra ANTI GAY conservatives have the right to spew utter bullshit. Why don’t you go back to writing for the Sunday comic section….or better yet…..your local obituaries.
So Mr. Lang isn’t an activist? What do you call it when he publishes the private information online of people who disagree with him and gets all whiny when he’s called out? BTW – No one here published his address, phone number and place of employment so he could be harassed. Big difference.
And the MAJORITY of people in Massachusetts were against gay marriage, which is why it took an activist judge and lockstep legislature to keep a vote of the people off a ballot.
IF you lived in Massachusetts, you’d know that a lot of Republicans believe that if they “moderate” and side with Democrats, it’ll make them like you and back off. Obviously Brown has forgotten who had his back when the liberal knives were out and guess who he’ll come running back to once Dems pick a candidate and start tearing him a new one again.
As for the whole “civil rights” thing, “How is what he does any different from those of yesteryear?” In a military setting, a gay person could go about their business and have very few people know who they are and possibly disrupt unit cohesiveness (something Clinton may have considered when he signed DADT). Blacks have no such ability to hide an alternative skin color and gays have endured so small an amount of discrimination compared to blacks, the comparison is insulting.
First Bob, maybe no one on this blog posted my name, address etc. however many antigay’ “pro-family” and Christian Right bloggers and commenters went to town trying to do so. That was until they actually read my website and then they found my name, home address and phone and cell numbers ON my website as well as those of my straight, married co-director who lives with his wife and three children in Boxford. We posted our information, though we did not have to, as a symbol of good faith. And regarding the posting of public information on ballot initiatives, KnowThyNeighor was challenged on this in 2010 and it went to SCOTUS. We won with only Thomas dissenting and it was Justice Scalia who took the strongest stance on my behalf saying that participation in a Democracy requires courage to stand up for what you believe in. So, go ahead and call Justice Scalia a turncoat or whatever names you throw at Senator Brown…I mean, isn’t Scalia one of yours? Isn’t this some major betrayal of conservative values? He did side with that horrible gay activist, Tom Lang who exposes those who wish to remain hidden from public view while they do “the Lord’s work…”
And regarding your debate with the comment on this being civil rights. It is pretty telling of the character of the individual when he or she tries to discredit or diminish the discrimination of another group by saying that the discrimination or oppression of his own group is different thus great and ultimately “better” than the current group facing the discrimination. This shows such a lack of compassion and empathy that it certainly shows the Christian message has completely fallen on deaf ears.
You are correct. ALL gays do not wear their being different from the majority like Blacks do. You are correct, Blacks for the most part cannot hide there skin color. You would also be correct if you said that gays were not pulled out of their homeland and brought to a foreign country and used as slaves, sold as animals and given for this work oppression that lasted many generations a place in America of forced classist stereotyping. That we can all agree on.
The plight of lgbt people in this country is much different. We, because of our birth, are not born into a class stereotype. We are born into a stereotyping of us as morally defficient, morally corrupt, mentally deranged and/or perverted. Whether we undertake the act of sex with the same gender or not, we once self identified or because of mannerisms are deemed by society, church and the family as “morally suspect.”. Our fight for marriage rights to protect our property, spouses, children is quickly turned by your “pro-family” activists into a debate of sexualizing us into HIV spreaders, child molesters, fisters, and participants in any one or more sexually deviant practices your minds can conjure up at any given moment.
But we lgbt differ from Blacks in other ways regarding what happens to us. I don’t know of any Black parents who have thrown their young teenage children out on the street because they discovered they were Black. I don’t know of any Black parents so disgusted that their child is Black that they beat or even killed that child.
And I find it interesting that you would point out the discrimination of Blacks in the military. Yes we know that black troops were segregated from white troops and while this was demeaning in and of itself, I a sure the white troops used this as an excuse to further demean and badger blacks who were also risking their lives for this country. But there is one thing that you failed to mention or provide to us as something you acknowledge. At least segregated black soldiers could tell their fellow soldiers and commanding officers of the ones you left back home, the one that you are fighting for, the one that if anything happens to you and you are killed, that your final wish is for someone to deliver a note, a letter or a message to your significant other that you loved them. THAT is the one very important thing that was not afforded gay or lesbian military people. I cannot imagine what it must be like in a war setting to not be able to hold a photo close to ones heart or to speak to others of that person you love. To never be able to speak this person’ s name even in your dying moments…
Oh yeah, but we have it so much better than you Blacks do…
Once you sign a bigoted petition…or any petition for that matter, your info becomes part of public record. If you don’t want your info available to the general public then don’t sign. It’s that simple. Any person could have went and looked at the signers. Mr.Lang simply posted PUBLIC info on a website. GET OVER IT. “IF” I lived in MA, I would certainly see that there were no activist judges. I would clearly see the judicial system attempting to eradicate bigotry by stating marriage is a civil right, not a “right” given by religion. Your argument has been heard numerous times thus making your “talking points” moot. This article was judgmental, biased and bigoted.
Fine, and no one here posted Mr. Lang’s personal information. We simply have the nerve to disagree with him and that (as most of us know) is what pisses off liberals the most.
And after the whole Proposition 8 vote, gays are the last people to call anyone bigots.