Posted on 06/14/2007 10:28:31 AM PDT by GQuagmire
A joint session of the Legislature swiftly defeated a constitutional ban on gay marriage by a vote of 151 to 45, eliminating any chances of getting it on the ballot in November 2008
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
The three leaders - along with gay rights activists - spent the last several days intensely lobbying a dozen or more state representatives and state senators who had previously supported the amendment but signaled that they were open to changing their positions.
Because fewer than 50 of the state's 200 lawmakers supported the amendment, it will not appear on the 2008 ballot, giving gay marriage advocates a major victory in their battle with social conservatives to keep same-sex marriage legal in Massachusetts.
Opponents of gay marriage face an increasingly tough battle to win legislative approval of any future petitions to appear on a statewide ballot. The next election available to them is 2012.
Mitt’s legacy?
The homosexual agenda is incompatible with our democracy, period.
More business as usual at Mass. State House
I can’t wait to see who flipped and what the payout was.
If Mitt Romney had dedicated himself to his job, this amendment would have been on its way to the ballot.
I hope his Presidential race was worth it.
Classic Massachusetts.
Wonder what kind of goodies they got for changing their votes.
I’ve heard that before. I certainly can’t blame Mitt for the lousy MA courts, but he did not appear to do too much to fight this thing.
And now for the persecution of those who backed the ban.
Doesn’t have anything to do with Romney.....it’s the lowlifes in the legislature..........
Uh . . . no.
Howie Carr will follow up with those few who flipped from the last vote to see what their payoff was.
It was actually Bill Weld who appointed Margaret Marshall to the bench.
If the voters of Massachusetts are too liberal, lazy or just clueless to keep returning these same bozos to office at every election, they’re going to deserve what they get.
Bill Weld. A superb RINO.
I agree, and might add that there is absolutely no reason for me or my family to ever travel to or through Massachusetts.
amen.
What a disgrace. I’m so glad I got out of Mass when I did. Theses slimebags make NJ look conservative.
And they're Romney's fault. While Romney spent millions of dollars on Republican campaigns across the country in 2006, he spent not one dime to help Massachusetts Republicans.
As a result, there are practically no conservatives in the state leg -- in fact, in 2006 the Rainbow-Green Party fielded more candidates in Massachusetts than the GOP, because Romney made sure that the Mass GOP was bankrupt.
If he had done his part, it would have been easy to get 5 more votes to put this thing on the ballot. Instead, Romney dropped the ball.
Wonder what kind of goodies they got for changing their votes.
If there are any,they will be reported to the US attorney(A Republican BTW).Gay marriage ban groups have said the will be watching to see down the road who switched their votes from previous ConCon votes.
Bears repeating. Can we expand that to the voters of the United States?
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