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.
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.
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.