Myra Marx Ferree is a professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of numerous articles on changes in family roles and social policy in the United States and Europe. May 23, 2004 After more than 1,000 gay and lesbian couples were married in Massachusetts Monday, the first time in U.S. history that such unions were legally recognized, opponents said they would step up their fight for a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a union strictly between a man and a woman. "This issue is boiling," Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, told the...