Senate Turns Massachusetts Into Gay Las Vegas
by Matt Margolis, July 15th, 2008 at 10:27pm
Earlier today the State Senate voted to allow out-of-state gay couples to get married in Massachusetts… opening the door for Massachusetts to become the Gay Las Vegas.
The Massachusetts Family Institute, issued a press release earlier today, accusing the Senate of redefining marriage in other states:
With its vote today to dismantle a 1913 law prohibiting out-of-state couples from marrying Massachusetts if they are ineligible for marriage in their home state, the Massachusetts Senate is inviting court challenges to the marriage laws of other states.
“The Massachusetts Senate has no right to infringe on the internal issues of how other states define marriage but that’s exactly what they voted today to do,” said Kris Mineau, president, Massachusetts Family Institute.
Dubbed falsely by same-sex marriage activists as a law with an anti-race bias, the State Supreme Judicial Court in 2006 ruled that the law was not racially motivated.
“Legislators were pressured unscrupulously by same-sex marriage activists to dismantle this law or be branded racists,” Mr. Mineau said—adding that the Human Rights Campaign hired lobbyists to work over Massachusetts legislators on this issue.
Move over San Francisco.
Entry Filed under: Beacon Hill, Family Issues, Gay Marriage, Uncategorized
2 Comments Add your own
1. SP | July 18th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
John K - If you’re unhappy with the fact that you didn’t get the opportunity to vote on the proposed marriage amendment, maybe you should work to change the process through which citizen initiative petitions become ballot questions.
2. V | July 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pm
SP;
That is an extremely weak criticism of John K.
The legislature played every trick in the book to keep this off the ballot and you know it.
Kelly summed up what is wrong with your position pretty well, so I won’t repeat it. Suffice it to say that you seem to be playing “nya, nya” because things went your way.
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