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...laws banning gay marriage, but this does not necessarily mean that they would vote for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a measure even some gay-marriage opponents see as drastic and unnecessary. After all, the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act already prohibits the federal government from honoring same-sex marriages and purports to give permission to the states to do the same...
...legislature to pass a Vermont-style “civil union” law—a “separate but equal” alternative to marriage. But Romney and other radicals want to go even further and amend the state constitution to ban not only same-sex marriage, but civil unions as well. Although a post-Goodridge poll showed that 53 percent of Massachusetts voters oppose such action, conservative activists are already beginning a propaganda campaign to drive the amendment through...
...make sure that the voice of equality rings out louder than the voice of prejudice. A conservative minority must not be allowed to brand gay and lesbian families with second-class status forever. Luckily time is on our side. The state will begin recognizing same-sex unions in 2004, and a constitutional amendment could not be ratified until...
Come springtime, most experts agree that same-sex couples can look forward to getting married rather than “civil-unionized.” Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe has noted that “the court could hardly have been clearer… that the basic definition of marriage has to be broadened for it to meet the requirements of the state constitution.” Richard C. Van Nostrand, president of the Massachusetts Bar Association, agrees, saying, “I just don’t see any room in the [Court?...
When the first same-sex marriages are celebrated here, Massachusetts will truly make history. Hopefully, when people see that this does not “destroy society as we know it” (as one conservative commentator has predicted), they will abandon what the Goodridge court called the “destructive stereotype that same-sex relationships are…inferior to opposite-sex relationships and are not worthy of respect...