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...Sunday morning in February 2006, Romney personally taped handwritten notes to the doors of senate president Robert Travaglini and house speaker Salvatore DiMasi, begging them not to let this opportunity die. The speaker, for one, wasn't impressed. "A cheap publicity stunt," DiMasi says. Recognizing the limits of his own influence, Romney turned to Kennedy once again. "I asked for his help on certain legislators: 'Could you give a call on this one?'" Romney says. On March�22, 2006, Kennedy did more than that. He went to the floor of both the house and the senate on Beacon Hill...
Marriage supporters, including Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, abandoned the Travaglini-Lees Amendment long ago because of its flawed compromise on civil unions. Since civil unions are same-sex “marriage” in nearly all but name, they remain an unacceptable compromise to most marriage supporters. Consequently, the ultimate failure of the Travaglini-Lees Amendment was a foregone conclusion when it passed the first time...
...people has already been exercised and 56 percent of the voters favor same-sex “marriage,” as you contend. However, it is worth noting that there has not yet been a vote on marriage itself by the people or the Legislature. The Travaglini-Lees compromise foreclosed any opportunity for the constitutional convention to vote on an amendment relating to marriage only...
...probably defunct Travaglini-Lees amendment was designed to satisfy both gay-marriage opponents and gay-union advocates, but it ultimately failed to please either camp...
...Travaglini-Lees amendment is something that neither side wanted to begin with and still doesn’t,” said Massachusetts Family Institute Director of Public Policy Evelyn Reilly. “The proponents of same-sex marriages don’t want to define marriage as between a man and a woman, and the proponents of traditional marriage don’t want to put civil unions in the constitution...