Liberal Crozier
07-10-2006, 03:32 PM
Spouse here -
We received an email today from a married same-sex couple who have been married for two years and together for thirty-eight. They raised several children.
When the Goodridge decision was announced in November, 2003 with the usual six month waiting period and the fights since March of 2004, the theocons have been successful in the following:
1) Won the first Constitutional Convention vote and said that marriage laws would be passed by referendum in November, 2006.
2) Romney's use of the racist 1913 law to deny marriage to out-of-state same sex couples. Now the same Judicial Supreme Court has upheld the decision.
3) A recall petition with theocon roots and filled with all sorts of recorded fraud, passes - calling for a Constitutional Convention that would remove ALL rights for same-sex couples. The same Judicial Supreme Court upheld the challenge by GLAD to void the recall petition, and allows the Constitutional Convention. The law says that all they need is 50 delegate votes rather than double and more that amount to place it on the ballot in 2008.
The political insider pundits said that generalised apathy and lack of passion against the opponents, coupled with virulent enemies and tepid allies, it seems that the only legal marriage in MA will first be abolished, and then, the repentant allies will be allowed to have a civil union statute like their neighbours.
What happened to the Supreme Judicial justices who gave your nation a Goodridge victory? They were hung in effigy and their entire lives under the scrutiny of the right wing. Since then, they have voted FOR the theocons' agenda since.
We received an email today from a married same-sex couple who have been married for two years and together for thirty-eight. They raised several children.
When the Goodridge decision was announced in November, 2003 with the usual six month waiting period and the fights since March of 2004, the theocons have been successful in the following:
1) Won the first Constitutional Convention vote and said that marriage laws would be passed by referendum in November, 2006.
2) Romney's use of the racist 1913 law to deny marriage to out-of-state same sex couples. Now the same Judicial Supreme Court has upheld the decision.
3) A recall petition with theocon roots and filled with all sorts of recorded fraud, passes - calling for a Constitutional Convention that would remove ALL rights for same-sex couples. The same Judicial Supreme Court upheld the challenge by GLAD to void the recall petition, and allows the Constitutional Convention. The law says that all they need is 50 delegate votes rather than double and more that amount to place it on the ballot in 2008.
The political insider pundits said that generalised apathy and lack of passion against the opponents, coupled with virulent enemies and tepid allies, it seems that the only legal marriage in MA will first be abolished, and then, the repentant allies will be allowed to have a civil union statute like their neighbours.
What happened to the Supreme Judicial justices who gave your nation a Goodridge victory? They were hung in effigy and their entire lives under the scrutiny of the right wing. Since then, they have voted FOR the theocons' agenda since.