A photo with a bostonherald.com story on same-sex marriage proclaims:
Rabbi Daniel Judson (reform jewish) of Temple Beth David in Canton speaks to media against gay marriage.
As Mass. Marrier points out, Judson, in fact, is very much in favor of same sex marriage:
At least, that's what the gay-hating MassResistance people claim.
Officals at the school where the alleged incident took place offer another perspective. So do parents in the town.
Eeka likes the work MassEquality does to support gay marriage, but wishes they would stop holding events only for rich people:
Some Norwood residents screamed at state Rep. John Rogers last night for announcing he now opposes a proposed referendum on gay marriage.
Domenico Bettinelli: Voters take Rogers to task
Mass. Marrier: Rep. Rogers Takes on the Bullies
On Pasquinade, Amy gives a thumbs up to the Lexington principal who refuses to back down on the issue:
Ruling applies to people from states that ban gay marriage. You may recall that the law the court upheld was passed to prevent, gasp, blacks and whites from marrying.
Mass Marrier says the decision doesn't require discrimination, only that it gives the state the right to block such marriages:
Downtown Boston has Neil Entwistle to thank for the relative quiet in the skies overhead today: The planes pulling the banners demanding that Justice Marshall resign from the Supreme Judicial Court were busy flitting around Framingham today - where all the news crews busy waiting for their chance to yell unintelligible questions at Entwistle as he was brought into and out of Framingham District Court no doubt promptly dropped everything to crane their heads upward to look at the loony planes with the banners for roughly a half second before going back on Accused Wife/Baby Killer Neil Entwistle Patrol.
A friend reports that downtown is once again being buzzed by the anti-Judge Marshall air force. How long does their plane fare hold out, one wonders?
Earlier:
Anti-gay-marriage air force strafes the Pike.
The anti-Marshall airplane is back.
On One Smoot Short of a Bridge, eeka discusses an issue straight married couples don't have to deal with: The federal government considers health insurance provided by one person as income for the other:
Uncle reports he spotted the plane (planes, actually) carrying the banner calling on Margaret Marshall to resign as Supreme Judicial Court chief justice - flying along the Massachusetts Turnpike yesterday. He discusses the general tactical stupidity: The planes were flying over the westbound lane at rush hour, so most people on the road missed the signs. Plus, even on the eastbound side (where he was driving), the banners were hard to read. He suggests the sponsors save their money:
Far be it from me to advise fringe groups on how to spend their money, but geez, a frigid January day, when anybody with any sense is inside, might not be the best day to hire somebody to fly a banner around downtown demanding Chief Justice Margaret Marshall resign.
Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders has filed a suit asking the Supreme Judicial Court to rule the recently approved ballot question on banning gay marriage illegal. One argument: It would overturn the Goodridge case that legalized such marriages - which would violate a constitutional provision against referendum questions on judicial decisions.
Via Mass Marrier, who has more analysis.
Mass Marrier thinks Jimmy Kelly's recent bout with brain cancer will turn him into a liberal. Even before he was admitted to the hospital, Kelly was warming to the idea of civil unions, if not outright gay marriage.
Yes, you, too can see if your neighbors don't like gay marriage - although the premise of the database is to check to make sure your name didn't fraudulently end up on the petitions submitted to the state.
Zeitshaba watches as two planes pulling banners calling for the removal of our own Chief Justice Marshall over gay marriage fly overhead. They have a phone number. She dials it - and gets House Speaker Sal DiMasi's office, which had nothing to do with them:
... I really wish I knew who paid for those planes, because I think they should know what their money ended up paying for: several times as many calls were received showing support for gay marriage than were opposed. ...
Domenico signs a petition asking Archbishop Sean O'Malley to either get Catholic Charities to disinvite Tom Menino from a banquet next week or fire its board. At issue: Menino's stances on abortion and gay marriage.
... While this is obviously a difficult request, we believe in our hearts that this is a necessary step that must be taken. The people of Boston have lost confidence in the spiritual leadership of Catholic Charities. ...
Bay Windows reports this week that state Rep. Eugene O'Flaherty says he will not support the current effort to amend the state constitution to ban civil marriage rights of same-sex couples:
Tony describes a run-in with an older woman outside the Downtown Crossing T stop trying to get signatures on a petition for a question to ban gay marriage:
Alison reports, via her husband at the State House:
... The Massachusetts Family Institute (sorry, no link for you) asked its supporters to show up several hours before the 1 p.m. start time, but by 10 a.m. this morning, almost no one had shown. By noon, a few had come, but in nowhere near the numbers they turned out at the last ConCon. And apparently without many of the out-of-state church contingents with the scary little kids threatening my husband with a horrible death from AIDS for supporting gay marriage rights. ...
With defeat of the legislative attempt to get a ballot question calling for an end to gay marriage looking pretty certain, Shelley says:
Once again, I'm happy to live in Massachusetts.
That still leaves the citizen-initiated petition, but the earliest that could get on the ballot would be 2008.
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