Samfeasor took the same bar exam as that guy who is now suing the state Board of Bar Examiners because he refused to answer a question involving gay marriage, which he claims cost him the test. Samfeasor writes:
... In the afternoon part of the exam, there was a question about whether aliens have a right to counsel when they're considered enemy combatants. The answer, by law, is no. I disagree with that. I still wrote the law, I still applied the law to the facts and, y'know what? I passed.
Stephen Dunne failed the state bar exam by about one point (out of 270) after refusing to answer a question about parenting rights in a gay marriage (which, natch, is legal in Massachusetts). Naturally, he is now suing the state Board of Bar Examiners (in federal district court), claiming the question infringed on his freedom of religion and rights to due process and equal protection. Oh, and the question also violates the interstate commerce provisions of the Constitution, he argues. He is acting as his own attorney.
Teddy Kokoros photographs this weird, spiky archy thing on a path between Arsenal Park and North Beacon Street and wonders what the deal is:
... I did not take a chance and walk through it for fear I would get sucked into some sort of vortex or that the archway was actually the teeth of a great beast waiting to clamp down on any unsuspecting people. ...
Sushiesque notes that the Metro today quotes an opponent of single-sex marriage as saying that one reason his side lost was because the other side had "deep coiffures." He must have said that because we know how good the Metro's copy desk is.
Shelley: It is yet another great day to live in Massachusetts!
Rogue Slayer Law Student: Ding-dong, the amendment's dead. Long live marriage equality!
Hub Politics: This is not the end:
Almost every single time some out-of-the-ordinary big news story happens, boston.com seems to do its best to hide it from us with an ad (dating at least back to last year's Emerson scaffolding collapse). They've done it again today: State Legislature takes historic vote and refuses to put gay marriage on the ballot and what do boston.com visitors see on the home page?
If you squint really hard, way down at the bottom, you can see about half a headline about something that happened at the State House today.
OK, if you wait, the ad "rolls up," but really, editorial folks, don't you have any pull with the advertising department anymore?
Via Spatch, who exults:
LOWES IS OPENING BRAND NEW LOCATIONS ALL UP AND DOWN THE COAST! BRAND NEW STORES TO SHOP AT! HUZZAH HUZZAH HUZZAH!
oh yeah and also our state's proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was totally defeated but that's just some picayune bit of news that goes on the front page under the BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG AD that says LOWES IS OPENING BRAND NEW LOCATIONS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!1111 ...
Ryan Adams will be liveblogging what seems like the 75 millionth legislative session, which might finally decide whether voters get a ballot question on same-sex marriage. Bay Windows is live on location as well
It's all Mike Mennonno can do to not rush over to JP from his new home in Somerville and slap some sense into the gay guy who worries all his neighbors hate him even though he has absolutely no evidence to that effect:
Opponents of the proposal regroup; proponents rejoice.
Sco posts a list of the 62 legislators and wonders which ones can be persuaded to change their votes.
Chris Mason: We have lost this battle, but we will most certainly win this war.
Charley on the MTA blames Travaglini for " a Kremlin-style charade" that is the Constitutional Convention:
Liberals like David at Blue Mass. Group are revolted that the Legislature approved the referendum on same-sex marriage but let a health-care amendment die:
So they have -- no question -- violated their oaths of office. And they've made those of us who asked them to follow the law on the marriage amendment, even though we suspected the results would be disappointing, look pretty silly.
The House of Representatives figured it could save some money by cancelling a contract with WGBH and instead Webcasting its sessions. I'm trying to watch the same-sex-marriage vote and it's just not working. Honorable dudes - either give the contract back to WGBH or just give up the fiction you're providing public access to your proceedings.
Blue Mass. Group will liveblog the convention, which starts at 2 p.m. today. Ditto for Bay Windows. On the possible agenda: Letting voters vote on same-sex marriage and a health-care amendment.
Mike Mennonno dissects the state's new health-insurance law, the one the Globe loves to bits.
Jay Fitzgerald dissects the argument that legislators are doing the right thing by breaking their constitutional responsibilities.
Blue Mass. Group posts the court's unanimous decision, which basically says, yeah, some legislators are weasels, but if you don't like it, vote them out of office. In other words, the court won't be ordering the legislature to give voters a say on gay marriage.
At Blue Mass. Group, David liveblogs today's hearing on whether to put that petition about banning gay marriage on the ballot.
Your basic rally against same-sex marriage in Worcester turned a little violent yesterday when one of the organizers knocked a woman on the other side of the issue to the ground, people at the rally report.
On Blue Mass. Group, Rollbiz writes:
... I was 10 feet away, and I saw it. I had to go and pick her up off the pavement, comfort her, and get her the hell out of there.
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