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
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Increase of the exodus out of MA. Increase in children being pulled from public schools. Increase in folks allowing their properties to go into foreclosure rather than sell them and help the MA economy. Increases in homes that don’t sell. Increase in disgruntled voters.
Decrease in tourism. Decrease in spending in MA. Decrease in revenue from conventions (empty convention centers) Decrease in businesses operating or opening in MA.
Lose/Lose situation! All the way around. Where socialism/communism reigns, the economy/standard of living decline rapidly.
All US Attorneys are Republicans.
Just see how many of their relatives get appointed as judges or to no-show jobs at state agencies.
The House of Reprehensibles. The best Legislature that money can buy.
The Knights of Columbus will be high on that list.
You are right. What’s worse, he didn’t even help lobby these reps to hold firm to their previous votes. Thanks, Mitt.
Oh I know massgop, and that is so sad! I have a brother who works for a huge company who had their convention in Boston, and has said no way ever again.
That ain’t the half of it boys and girls.It was set up if they DID NOT have the votes there would be no vote today.
If they had the votes. they WOULD vote today.As of last nite they didn’t have the votes.
So it would never come to a vote if they didn’t have the votes to win.
Typical Mass. ass politics.
This F’n state sucks.
Just wow. The Democrats who claim to want everything decided by the voters and ballot, deny the citizens of Massachusetts a vote on this.
How freaking hypocritical - but typical - of the RAT party.
Unfortunately if the federal courts decide to overturn the federal DOMA because of the full faith & credit clause of the U.S. Constitution (very good chance), we will all get what they force on us.
The leadership are Democrats, but there were Republicans who voted to keep this off the ballot. In fact, there are quite a few Dems who were real heroes in this fight.
I’m talking in particular of Patrick and the Democrat leaders strongarm tactics. Nothing will excuse this. They knew how many votes they needed and they did what they needed to to make sure it stayed off the ballot.
By saying Republicans voted to keep it off the ballot too doesn’t excuse the repulsive behavior by the Democrat hierarchy.
Just like they say they want states' rights when they are opposing the federal marriage amendment (which would have done nothing more than ban the judges from legislating and left the legislators free to do the worst they could think of with exception to using the word marriage so that the differences between different state laws could remain clear to all), but when the issue is argued in federal court, they claim the federal constitution demands approval of all things homosexual. Then they go even further and try to make being homosexual special with extra federal protections (ENDA and hate crimes legislation).
Just like they vote to ban PBA but are then outraged when the Supreme Court upholds the ban.
Back to marriage and states' rights, you can't really call something a state issue that reaps so many federal benefits anyway. And ever since Utah was forced to ban polygamy, the fundamental definition of marriage has always been a federal issue in this country. The Federal Marriage Amendment was a compromise that actually benefited homosexuals and retreated from our nation's history. I would have settled for that, but not the liberals. They want to squeeze it into the shadows of the existing constitution right alongside abortion and sodomy.
This is from the Boston Herald:
“Among lawmakers who switched from previous support of the ban were state Reps. James Vallee (D-Franklin), Brian Wallace (D-South Boston), Richard Ross (R-Wrentham), Robert Nyman (D-Hanover) and Paul Loscocco (R-Holliston), among others. Senators who switched included Gale Candaras (D-Wilbraham)and state Sen. Michael Morrissey (D-Quincy).”
My Republican representative switched.
Hell for 1 vote Red Sox box seats for the next Yankees series will do the trick.
You may be right about that; they're getting cheaper to buy off these days. Reminds me of the old punch line about the Man about Town who propositions a Lady of the Evening. She accepts his advances, upon which he offers her only one dollar for her services. When she protests: "What kind of a girl do you think I am!?" he replies: "We've already established what you are, Miss; now were simply haggling over the price".
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