As I said, the topic of this thread is the article at the beginning. In that article, it is claimed that in 2002, it was “well-known” that the Mass. Supreme Court would legalize gay marriage. I disagree with that, and you argued with me, so I ask again — do you have ANY evidence that it was generally expected? Articles from 2002 that looked forward to that occurance? Articles from 2003 that said it was a foregone conclusion? Articles from 2004? 2005?
Maybe some of those you pinged have references that show that. I remember people being very upset when the court ruled as it did, people seemed rather surprised that the court could get things so wrong; they then urged action to overcome the unexpected decision.
I can’t find any indication that conservatives had years to prepare for this ruling, as the article suggested.
As for the topic you keep bringing up, just go back to what I and others wrote in the myriad of articles posted in 2008 regarding this. The only source that seems to think the way you do is a couple of lawyers in MassResistance — the entire rest of the legal community makes it clear that the theory is hogwash.
But as I have said to you before — if you think you are correct, why don’t you post some article from any news source, say in the first week after the Mass. decision, where a legal argument is made that the court didn’t do anything, that there was no danger of any gay marriages happening, and that we could all simply ignore the ruling and pretend it didn’t happen.
It shocks me that people are willing today to make such an argument, having actually lived through that time. The Mass. Surpreme court legalized gay marriage. Every right-wing organization said so loud and clear after it happened. To argue now that the ruling was meaningless is to re-write history — something conservatives should reject. There’s no need to do so.
That last sentence was a typographical error; the Supreme Court ruled in November of 2003, so obviously by 2004 and 2005 there were articles speculating. That was suppsoed to be part of the following paragraphs about citations from legal sources other than MassResistance suggesting the Mass. Supreme Court didn't actually legalize gay marriage.
Sorry about the confusion.