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Posted by Gunny There is a popular initiative afoot in this Bluest of the Blue states. It is actively promoted by the Catholic Church (mine and the majority these parts and the "Evangelicals". They want voters to define marriage, as many states have, as one man one woman. If the propositon were to get on the ballot in 2008 and a 50% majority voted for it it would negate the Supreme Judicial Court decision that gave life to the current debate. To get on the ballot the initiative position had to be approved by our legislature. The "approval" threshold was just about 25%. Currently the "pro gay" forces in the General Court (our gandiose term for the legislature) are only 60% not the 75% required to send the proposition to oblivion. The big debate at the moment was whether the legislature would use parlimentary manuevers to kill the vote. Stopping the vote would have the same effect as finding that 75%. We did it! In spite of a campaign that argues that the people ought to be allowed to vote on this -- a notion I reject == it's like putting the Civil Rights Amendment up for a vote in Selma, Alabama in '62 == they did vote to end the Constitution Convention (House and Senate sitting together) without allowing those 50-60 legislators to send the amendment "up". It will not see the ballot in 2008. It might appear there some time after that, but we have won a reprieve. I cannot tell you how much it terrifies me to have my neighbor have a right to vote on if he/she likes me. Would you? An interesting prelim to that vote. I don't believe for a second that it is "real". But politicos are politicos and given the opportunity they will vote in their self interest and without conviction. That had to be what was going on. Asked whether or not they, individually, wished to define marriage as one man-one -woman the voted unanimously NO. It's clear that being a homophobe is not longer a winning position to hold in MA.
on 9/11/2006, 18:35:28
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Another gay rights victory in MA -- sort of - very?
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