Posted on 10/22/2010 7:18:57 PM PDT by massmike
Despite his "personal opinions," Republican candidate for Attorney General Jim McKenna says he won’t go after same-sex marriage, DOMA challenge if elected.
The former Worcester County Assistant District Attorney said that despite "personal views," he does not intend to challenge LGBT civil rights in Massachusetts. "We’ve all had the chance to see Massachusetts with same-sex marriage as an option. My opinion is five years later we are the same Massachusetts," he said. "I am just another guy trying to do what is right in this world, and yes, of course I have my own personal views.
As a lawyer and a professor of ethics, I know that the rule of law is bigger than any of our personal views. I know I will uphold our laws with fairness and objectivity as your next Attorney General. And I pledge I won’t work to change the law when it comes to social issues like same-sex marriage and abortion."
(Excerpt) Read more at baywindows.com ...
Anyone else have different info?
This DID come from MassResistance,though...
ATTORNEY GENERAL
D -*MARTHA COAKLEY, Medford
R - JIM MCKENNA, Millbury
Martha Coakley is a hardcore anti-family pro-gay activist, and uses the Attorney General’s office to push her favorite leftwing causes. Here’s our report on Coakley when she was running against Scott Brown for US Senate. Jim McKenna impressed everyone by getting 27,000 write-in votes to get on the ballot. (The ineptitude of the Republican party not fielding a candidate is astounding.) He got the backing of many pro-family groups, but now he’s started to go soft. This past week he was on the front page of the homosexual newspaper Bay Windows telling them, “I pledge I won’t work to change the law when it comes to social issues like same-sex marriage and abortion.”
Nevertheless, McKenna is still a much better choice than Coakley. But don’t look for anything heroic from him.
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt10/election10/general/statewide.html
The Republican candidate for Governor is also big on gay rights
Martha Coakley is a hardcore anti-family pro-gay activist, and uses the Attorney General's office to push her favorite leftwing causes.Thanks massmike, that is the thing to remember; baby steps, baby steps.
In order to make any changes about homosexual marriage, or abortion, in MA, the citizens have to work through the legislature, even though the members can be duplicitous, at times, as they were when we were trying to get a referendum on marriage on the ballot.
It just sickens me how so many politicians-even the ones supposedly on "our" side-feel they have to kiss-up to these people.
Yeah, I guess he felt like he had to say something like that to bring in more ‘Independent’ voters. Sad.
It would still be so poetic if Coakley could bite the dust in yet another election. It would be the supreme repudiation of her leftism.
Republicans and Democrats used to want to get on the cover of The Boston Pilot, now they trip over Social Conservatives to get on Bay Window. Besides, why is he being asked this? Only the legislature can change laws.
...and EVERYONE has forgotten THIS point:
“...There is no actual “law” involved. The 2003 Goodridge ruling was just a court case. In fact, in Massachusetts the state constitution has never allowed a court to change the law. Thus, the actual marriage statutes have not changed at all, despite bills every year before the Legislature to attempt to change the marriage laws to allow same-sex “marriage”.”
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/govt10/election10/mckenna_doma/index.html
Confirmed Today: Gay Marriage STILL Not Legal in Mass.!
“For years now — since 2005 — the homosexual lobby has filed and refiled its bill to legalize “gay marriage” in Massachusetts. They know that the law as it now stands refers to “man/woman”, “husband/wife” relationships as marriage. Today, the Judiciary Committee once again sent the bill to “study” — meaning, they killed it. But the very existence of this bill over the years confirms that we are correct that “gay marriage” has never been made legal in Massachusetts.”
http://massresistance.blogspot.com/2010/03/confirmed-today-gay-marriage-still-not.html?zx=f2d6491e1ef8051e
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