Current status (As of June 14, 2007):
Legislators vote to defeat same-sex marriage ban -- A proposed
constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was swiftly defeated today by a joint
session of the Legislature by a vote of 45 to 151, eliminating any chance of
getting it on the ballot in November 2008. The measure needed at least 50 votes
to advance.
The vote came without debate after House Speaker
Salvatore F. DiMasi, Senate President Therese Murray, and Governor Deval Patrick
conferred this morning and concluded that they have the votes to kill the
proposal. (By Frank Phillips, Boston Globe)A few signs of the times from
Mass. Resistance:
"It's very frustrating because legislators keep upping
the ante on what they want to get for their votes."
-- Arlene Isaacson, lobbyist for homosexual movement, quoted in
the Boston Globe prior to the June 14 vote
Pertinent web sites:
defendthefamily.com
(Great site!!)
Institute for Marriage and Public Policy (Also great!)
Coalition
for Marriage
Mass
Catholic Conference Legislative Alerts & Votes
Parents
Rights Coalition
www.article8.org
Maggie
Gallagher and the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy: news, debates,
and essays on marriage -- Excellent!!
Family
Research Council article: evidence indicates that "committed" homosexual
relationships are radically different from married couples in several key
respects.
Same-Sex
"Marriage," "Hate Crimes," and the New Totalitarianism by Michael D. O'Brien
Interview with Michael O'Brien
O'Brien's web site
Time
for the Counterrevolution by Patrick J Buchanan (February 25 2004) --
Gavin Newsom, mayor of San Francisco, has given America an object lesson in how
the Left imposes its radical social revolution on a confused majority that knows
not how to fight it.
"Romney
should step out in front of the state press corps and read a statement that
would stun America, rally social and judicial conservatives of both parties, and
bring every network camera in the nation to Boston ..." by Pat Buchanan
(2/9/2004)
"But what is the point of a constitutional
amendment when judges won't read the Constitution we already have?"
Ann Coulter
12/03/2003.
John Adams certainly would have been astonished
to discover that the constitution he wrote provided for gay marriage. Ann
Coulter, 11/27/2003.
Time
for a new Boston Tea Party by Pat
Buchanan (11/23/2003)
Seven years ago (November 1996) Norman Podhoretz
wrote an essay in Commentary titled "How
the Gay Rights Movement Won." His analysis was spot on target then, and
subsequent developments have only confirmed it.
A related matter is the
new Parents' Rights Law.
The
SJC "Gay Marriage" ruling and articles about it from the Globe.
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