[Mike4Freedom]

Are you serious? Forbid new marriages for everyone in the whole state? Aren't you getting a little carried away?

Gay couples are pledging lifetime allegiance to each other and living together now. The legal title will make little difference except make more business for divorce lawyers.

There isn't anything that married couples do now that could not be arranged with some advance planning-wills, contracts, advanced directives, durable power of attorney for medical decisions, etc. Don't go postal over this.

[TheEaglehasLanded]

This is what the Massachusetts Supremes have set up, the only way to deal with them is to screw their order constitutionally. Your idea would be allow homo marriage and people from other states will be heading to MASS and then going back to their home states and suing in front of friendly judges to get as many states as possible.

The Republicans better get the Constitutional Amendment started because the pandoras box opens in MAY.

[Unam Sanctam]

The legal title will make little difference

Exactly why this is not an issue of freedom but rather of obtaining government sanction for a behavior about which people legitimately have differing moral and religious views. The government should be neutral as regards homosexual activity, not actively promote it.

[hunter112]

Are you serious? Forbid new marriages for everyone in the whole state? Aren't you getting a little carried away?

Excellent points! I keep hearing on these threads how gays want to attack the institution of marriage, it would be quite ironic if MA legislators, in the name of defense of marriage, outlawed all marriages for a two year period.

Reminds me of a quote used in Vietnam, "We had to destroy the village in order to save it."