Mass. Supreme Court Rules - Gay Couples have the Right to Marry

FoxNews | 11-18-03 | FoxNews

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Mass. Supreme Court rules that illegal for state to deny marriage license to gay couples.

[randog]

Why just couples?

Exactly. What about polygamists, pedophiles, et.al.?

[knak]

I agree!

[Final Authority]

Now the Roman Catholic clergy will finally ask the Pope to allow clergy to marry. It would simplify things.

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

The opinion is posted here:

http://www.massreports.com/slipops/

[little jeremiah]

Vermont has, I think, legal "civil unions" which provide basically the same legal advantages and rights that regular marriage has. In Hawaii, the courts ruled in favor of same sex marriage, but a large citizen effort created a referendum to make a constitutional amendment stating that marriage was limited to one man and one woman.

[netmilsmom]

Actually, I don't know WHERE I got that number!!! Probably from my gay sister. Could you give me the right one for future reference?

[richtig_faust]

It doesn't make sense then to outlaw a marriage between a man and a dog or a man and a sheep.

[kabar]

Follow the money. The big one is social security suvivor benefits.

[PISANO]

And I think there will be..

It will be a monumental effort. If you remember the ERA didn't make it, and that had TREMENDOUS support throughout the country. Actually if NOT for Phillis Schafley's efforts it would have succeeded. It is very difficult to get 2/3's +1 in both the House and Senate but it is almost impossible to get 3/4 ths of the State Legistlatures to ratify.

[finnman69]

Gina Smith, left, and her partner, Heidi Norton, of Northampton, Mass., smile during a news conference in this March 4, 2003 file photo, following oral arguments at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on a challenge to the state's prohibition on gay marriage, in Boston. Smith and Norton are among the seven same-sex couples challenging the prohibition after seeking marriage licences from their town and city clerks and being turned down. The state's highest court is scheduled to hand down thier ruling Tuesday morning, Nov. 18, 2003 (AP Photo/Julia Malakie)

[little jeremiah]

The acts are vulgar; the words are just mirroring the acts themselves. (Although I got the creeps too).
But reminds me of pro-abortionists who complain about graphic pictures of aborted babies... Sometimes graphic words are needed to wake people up to the nature of depravity.

[stevio]

Actually it will be the divorce lawyers.

[kdmhcdcfld]

The gay lobby in this country wanted everyone to believe that 10 percent of the population was either gay or lesbian.

Try about 4 to 5 percent...

[netmilsmom]

>>Adult humans have always been allowed to enter into binding contracts. I'm not sure that dogs and sheep have ever been recognized as being able to enter into a contract.


No, but animals are recognized as valuable as humans in some states. They can be given legal guardians. Why can't they be given the "status" of human in a legal situation? Remember, these are people who think that a baby animal is more valuable than a human life. (think PETA)
Normal is only bizarre to those who do not do it.

[cajungirl]

I'm with you. The objection I have is that this will give lawyers an entire new source of cases by which they can continue to screw people out of their money. Marriage long ago ceased to be the holy state we would like it to be and which is the state of many of our marriages. Marriages break up, people make a shambles of the institution. I don't see the objection to people who love each other having a go at it. Let them see how they like the expectations of faithfulness, etc.

[Always Right]

It is very difficult to get 2/3's +1 in both the House and Senate but it is almost impossible to get 3/4 ths of the State Legistlatures to ratify.

On this issue it will be. I think it will be the biggest slam dunk Constitutional Amendment ever passed. The defense of marriage will have far more support than ERA ever had.

[GeronL]

Adult humans have always been allowed to enter into binding contracts. I'm not sure that dogs and sheep have ever been recognized as being able to enter into a contract.

What makes you think they will stop at adults???

[Mike Fieschko]

The ruling gives the Mass legislature 180 days to fix the problem which it created by denying sodomarriage.

180 days ... around May 18, 2004.

Democrats' 2004 nominating convention in Boston, July 26 - 29.

[cajungirl]

People know what the acts are, some of which are practised by heterosexuals. The use of vulgar language on this board is beneath us. I do think some people get a cheap thrill out of use of such language, it is childish and adolescent in my mind. You can use it as much as you like but I will continue to see it as reflecting badly on the user.