"With the passage of discriminatory legislation like Proposition 8, progressive cities like Cambridge are the beacons that light the way towards a more tolerant future," Simmons said. "We were the first city in the nation to grant same-sex … [Read more...]
Yes-on-8 Hiding Behind Children
Cross-posty:Also at Marry in Massachusetts. No one on the anti-SSM side can even begin to explain how expanding marriage (redefining it as they would have it) harms their marriages in the slightest. Court after court at local, state … [Read more...]
More on marriage equality — Medicaid protections
I am not aware of any statistics about how many elders or persons with disabilities will be immediately affected; however, the Legislature has bound itself to pay for coverage. Sometime after the legislation is signed into law, … [Read more...]
Toleos Dragged Down for Upholding Party Platform
Did Toleos's sign that said "John Kerry Anti-Gay Marriage,Anti-massachusetts" get taken away because Senator Kerry does not want people to know that he DOES NOT SUPPORT gay marriage? The party platform reads: "We affirm our commitment to … [Read more...]
Governor’s Chief Legal Counsel writes to Mass Lawyer’s Weekly – and AmberPaw comments
First, the courts are the major protection of liberty, and of the rights of minorities of all varieties against the tyranny of the majority. Without an independent judiciary, same sex marriage would not be the law in our State, for … [Read more...]
Those Loose-Lipped Clergy
Tune into the ongoing debates over same-sex marriage and you'll hear the same concepts. Both in civil-union states kicking the SSM can around and in others with no accommodation for homosexual couples, you see the same effect. Legislators … [Read more...]
Why America isn’t America for Every American Family
Alternate title: Gay Marriage Protects American Families. Science Blogs' Dispatches from the Culture Wars brings us a story originally found at 365Gay: Janice Langbehn and Lisa Pond had planned to take their three children on a family … [Read more...]
We’re doomed.
From Kos, here's Future Republican nominee Mike Huckabee: I don't think the issue's about being against gay marriage. It's about being for traditional marriage and articulating the reason that's important. You have … [Read more...]
Memories of Bizarro Mitt
Found while browsing through reddit.com."Every time you close your eyes: Lies! Lies!" … [Read more...]
“Traditional” Same-Sex Unions in Medieval Europe
Live Science reports:Civil unions between male couples existed around 600 years ago in medieval Europe....[Professor Allan Tulchin] found legal contracts from late medieval France that referred to the term "affrèrement," roughly translated … [Read more...]