There is 0% chance that Massachusetts will ratify the Federal Marriage Amendment with a majority vote in legislature. Putting an amendment to their State constitution before the voters requires only 25% of the legislators to vote in favor, and they've had a heck of a time rounding those up....
I'd stop looking at the DOMA states because most of those statutes were either already on the books before 1996 or placed there by ballot initiative. It's misleading and you cannot ratify a U.S. Constitution amendment by initiative.
odd, I say a news story that said Mass was going to pass a doma but not before the MassSC rules. This would create a window of homosexual marraiges.
The story said mass favored the DOMA. ?