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...past year, at least two historical roadblocks to equality were rightly knocked down—even as the nation’s most narrow-minded did their best to erect new ones. May 17 surely marked a happy ending for those who support equal rights, when hundreds of same-sex couples wed across Massachusetts. Cambridge, too, can claim a spot in the history books when it became the first city in the state, and thus the nation, to serve up marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Last summer also started off well for the cause of equal rights, when...
...shame that, in the year 2004, the reasons for opening the civil institution of marriage to all need to be reiterated. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, ruling this fall that the Commonwealth’s constitution bars the state from refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, hit the nail on the head: banning homosexuals from marrying within their gender creates an artificial, inherently unfair second class of citizens. Massachusetts’ denial of marriage licenses to gays and lesbians was hardly the first time that those in charge of the American government did their best to deny its promise...
...marriage would, by its very existence, harm already existing heterosexual unions—so fragile an institution, apparently, is straight marriage that the presence of any other sort of marriage might nullify it entirely. What is most surprising about the many false arguments marshaled by those who oppose same-sex marriage is not how absurd they are, how tired, how hollow-sounding—it’s that, with logic that so half-heartedly masks the irrational and old-fashioned bigotry underneath it, conservatives bothered to put on the pseudo-sensical...
...power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, I hereby pronounce you partners for life." THE REV. KIM CRAWFORD HARVIE, minister of the Arlington Street Church in Boston, as she married David Wilson and Robert Compton, one of the first gay couples in Massachusetts to wed after same-sex marriages became legal last week...
...undeterred. "This is a political initiative to reverse prejudice," he says. "It's in line with the Greens' orientation towards openness and equality." What better time to demonstrate that commitment, he says, than just before the June 10-13 elections for the European Parliament? Same-sex legal partnerships - though not full-fledged marriages - were first approved in Europe in the Nordic countries. Fifteen years ago Denmark recognized "registered partnerships," which gave gay and lesbian couples rights equivalent to married couples in all matters but the right to adopt, or to receive artificial insemination. The famously tolerant Dutch surpassed the Scandinavians...