Gay marriage on the ballot?

Some reaction to AG Tom Reilly's decision that the anti-gay-marriage movement can go ahead and try to get their petition on the 2006 ballot:

Karl: Please remove flip-flopper designation from John Kerry and attribute it to AG Reilly.

Sco: We're being subjected to three years of poisonous rhetoric (on both sides) for what?

To stop a handful of gay couples from being happy.

Dee says Reilly had a constitutional obligation to allow the petition drive, but that doesn't mean she likes it. She adds:

The Constitutional Convention is exactly 1-week away and no one's really nervous about the amendment (to define marriage between a man and a woman) going anywhere. Good job.

David also discusses the Constitutional Convention:

... Very probably, this is the death knell for the Travaglini-Lees "compromise," since the hard-core anti-marriage legislators are likely to join Mitt Romney in withdrawing their support for the compromise and backing this new one. Instead, we face a long and unpleasant slog as signature-gatherers and protesters take to the streets.

Mass. Resistance isn't satisfied:

... This unclean amendment would both ban and certify homosexual "marriage". In a state already drowning in legal and moral chaos, it will further contaminate the waters, presenting voters with an untenable compromise. ...

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