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Stanley said Liberty Counsel has two dozen lawsuits on same-sex marriage currently pending in state trial and appellate courts...
Professor of Law David Barron ’89, also a former Crimson president, said the Supreme Court may eventually take up the issue of same-sex marriage if more states followed Massachusetts’ lead and brought the issue to the forefront—but he didn’t envision it happening in the near future...
...Massachusetts State Legislature granted preliminary approval in March to a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage but allowing for civil unions. The amendment must be passed again by next year’s Legislature before being put to a statewide ballot referendum...
...public uproar in Massachusetts is telling—the sky didn’t fall on May 17,” said Cambridge City Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87, referring to the date when the state first issued marriage licenses to same-sex couples...
...Same-sex marriage wasn’t the only gay rights cause up for debate in this election. Sure, voters in eleven states were presented with ballot initiatives that would amend state constitutions to define marriage as between one man and one woman, and all eleven adopted the amendments by large percentages. But the literature promoting the initiatives makes it clear that marriage is not really the issue at stake. The debate focused on whether homosexuality was acceptable, in wedlock or out of it. That paints the new amendments as an even more major defeat, and calls...