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Ever since the court in 2003 struck down a Texas statute that criminalized same-sex sodomy, social conservatives have echoed Justice Antonin Scalia's lament that the court "has largely signed on to the so-called homosexual agenda." But in the same decision, the court stressed that a right to same-sex privacy did not necessarily translate to a right to same-sex marriage. For now, the gay-marriage debate is being played out in the states, but before long the 1996 federal Defense of Marriage Act, which lets states refuse to recognize other states' same-sex marriages, could make...
Backers of the amendment said that if the amendment passes, they will not seek to nullify the marriages that had already taken place. Approximately 6,000 same-sex couples have married in Massachusetts since November...
...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...
Romney’s shift in support away from the compromise has drawn the ire of same-sex marriage supporters, some of whom accuse Romney of pandering to conservatives outside the state to further possible presidential aspirations...
Supporters of the new amendment have also backed reciprocal benefits legislation, which would allow same-sex partners some of the privileges of marriage, including hospital visitation, on the basis of dependence rather than legal union...