Today's Constitutional Convention is jam-packed with legislative goodness. Gay marriage surfaces only in proposals number 19 and 20, and unanimous consent is required to change the order of the calendar. Before then, the … [Read more...]
Dueling op-eds on the anti-marriage amendment: Lehigh 1, Buckingham 0
Ginny Buckingham in the Herald and Scot Lehigh in the Globe both weighed in today on what the legislature should do in tomorrow's ConCon. Sorry Ginny, but Scot's right, and you're wrong, on this one.Here's Ginny:Truly, Chad Gifford, … [Read more...]
Thanks, business and civic leaders
Supreme Judicial Court upholds AG Reilly’s certification of anti-marriage amendment
Johanna SCHULMAN vs. ATTORNEY GENERAL & another [FN1]; Raymond Flynn & others, [FN2] interveners.SJC-09684May 4, 2006. - July 10, 2006.Present: Marshall, C.J., Greaney, Ireland, Spina, Cowin, Sosman, & Cordy, JJ.CIVIL ACTION … [Read more...]
BREAKING: Supreme Judicial Court to announce decision on anti-marriage amendment today
UPDATE (by Charley): The SJC has upheld the certification, according to Boston.com.The Supreme Judicial Court has announced that the decision in Schulman v. Attorney General, the case challenging AG Tom Reilly's certification of the … [Read more...]
The Phoenix’s disgraceful editorial on the anti-marriage amendment
Want to know, as BMG regular Michael Forbes Wilcox asks, "why the left is losing"? Just read The Phoenix's editorial on the anti-marriage amendment scheduled to come up in this week's Constitutional Convention.Basically, the … [Read more...]
Globe, Reilly get it right on the anti-marriage amendment
I was going to write up a post very much along these lines, but the Globe beat me to it. In an editorial published today, the Globe correctly argues that the legislature should vote against the anti-marriage amendment - but that they … [Read more...]
Atkins skewers Romney
Here's the most excellent thing I've seen on the Herald's website in quite some time - from Kim Atkins, of course.You can't choose your familyBut you can forget they were a part of American society. In urging the legislature to put a ballot … [Read more...]
Feingold backs same-sex marriage
Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold has stated that he favors legalizing same-sex marriage. As far as I know, he now stands with Ted Kennedy as the only US Senators who have taken that position. And Feingold is certainly the only … [Read more...]
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