A: The judiciary, the judiciary, and least we forget; the judiciary.
BOSTON – The Massachusetts’s high court ruled Tuesday that only full, equal marriage rights for gay couples – rather than civil unions – would meet the edict of its November decision, erasing any doubts that the nation’s first same-sex marriages would take place in the state beginning in mid-May.
The court issued the opinion in response to a request from the state Senate about whether Vermont-style civil unions, which conveyed the benefits – but not the title of marriage – would meet constitutional muster.
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Q: What is the difference between a judge and a dictator.
A: None, there both in there for life and if you don’t like what they order then too bad.
The only good thing about this decision is that it takes away the semantic gymnastics of pretending that gay unions and gay marriages don’t equal exactly the same result. Those that played the support of gay unions but not gay marriage game will have to get off the semantic fence. So by the judges forcing the issue they might actually make it easier to get the required amount of legislators to change the constitution. Possibly hopeful prediction, but I am a pundit and not a prophet.
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PRAY! PRAY for this foraken-God country! PRAAAY!
What a mess!
Essentially, unless the legislature gets creative or the executive ceases to believe that it is not merely the head legislative branch and declares that it will not execute this power-grabbing order, there will be gay marriage in Massachusetts for at least two years. Within one year, every state judiciary in America will be presented with the option of declaring same-sex marriage legal in their states via the lawsuits that will be filed in every single one no later than (mark my words) August.
What that means is that the spark has been set to the tinder, and we’re very likely to become familiar with a map like that of the 2000 election, but showing the states that do and do not allow gay marriage. In other words, the pressure will mount for the Supreme Court to sort out the details (i.e., bully the states that say “no”) in a few years.
One silver lining (if it can be called that) is that Massachusetts currently has among the best marriage stats in the nation. Two years may not be enough for the damage to manifest, but if it’ll show anywhere, it’ll show there.
In Ohio the legislation is sitting on the governor’s desk to be signed that marriage is only between a man and a woman. There are rumblings, though, that it is unconstitutional and it will be taken to court.
Q. What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 70?
A. “Your honor.”
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