Mass. Supreme Court Rules - Gay Couples have the Right to Marry

FoxNews | 11-18-03 | FoxNews

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Mass. Supreme Court rules that illegal for state to deny marriage license to gay couples.

[af_vet_1981]

Somewhere between two and four percent. The ten percent number has been discredited time and time again.

You have not taken into account how effective their proselytization campaigns to the younger generation through the arts of music and porn have been. They will never stop unless they are stopped.

[CWW]

This decision has VERY SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES for every state because each state will be required to honor any gay mariage from Mass. under the U.S. Constitution's Full Faith and Credit Clause. In other words, your state will have to recognize a gay marriage from another state as valid even if your state prohibits it.

[cajungirl]

You consider other adults sexual activites in their homes to be of concern to you? Public is a different matter. I don't like in my face heterosexual or homosexual behavior in public. I just don't like it. But as to people's privacy in their homes, it is really disturbing to me to think anyone thinks they have any right to be privy to that if adults are the ones involved. I think it is a Live and let live attitude, besides it seems perverted to me to be overly invested in others private lives.

[maryz]

Massachusetts is also overwhelmingly pro choice despite the number of Catholics. Of course, how one can be a practicing Catholic and pro choice

MA is, as a previous poster pointed out, overwhelming liberal. Liberal soi-disant Catholics do not consider themselves bound by Church teachings. I believe that superliberal "Voice of the Faithful" was born in MA, though they do scurry around trying to convince people -- falsely -- that they're actually orthodox.

[conserv13]

I know a few gay people and none of them 'recruit'. Unless by recruiting you mean dressing well, speaking well, maintaning a clean neighborhood with lots of hip upscale nightclubs restaurants and clothing stores.

[Graybeard58]

With such strong opinions I am surprised that no one has called you a "newbie" yet.You are supposed to have been a member here longer than the person who disagrees with you before your opinion is valid.

[verity]

In a related issue, Massachusetts plates issued by the DMV will now feature the official State logo:

"THE MASSHOLE STATE"

[DoctorMichael]

Let me follow this logic.........................

"........Marriage is a vital social institution...........The Massachusetts Constitution...forbids the creation of second-class citizens..........".

........Therefore, to create equality, we will debase the institution and drag 'marraige-between-a- man-and-a-woman' down to the level of the lowest common denominator and create a second class institution.

[San Jacinto]

there's some good-ole-boy in love with his sister and they move to Mass. and apply for a marriage license

Good point, why deny the "benefits and obligations" of a civil marriage to family members? In fact, I cannot think of a SINGLE THING that could not be ruled unconstitutional the way these goofy S.O.B.'s interpret this:

The Massachusetts Constitution affirms the dignity and equality of all individuals.

Surely it demeans one's dignity to be sent to jail, for example. Hey, no more jail time.

[jwalsh07]

I think pllural marriage is illegal

Under what rational basis after this decision??????????????

[af_vet_1981]

I think it is a Live and let live attitude

That is a recipe for assimilation. They will never stop until they are the majority. They will make is a required course in public high school. They will institute quotas. They are a menace to society.

[Protagoras]

Actually, that is incorrect. It is the recording of your marriage at your local courthouse that validates the marriage. Marriage has always been regulated by government.

Almost everything is regulated by the government. most of it illegitimately. You are confusing government approval and special treatment with marriage.

Both my wife and I are atheists. We are married, and have all the rights of a married couple.

Couples don't have rights, individuals do. Government may pretend that groups of people have rights, but that doesn't make it so.

Our marriage was performed in a courthouse by a judge. We had no need of any religious confirmation of our marriage.

Personal choice of who to worship, God or government. You make your choice, oh well.

[onedoug]

Salt?

[kdmhcdcfld]

My memory escapes me right now, but...

There was a trial (the details of which I can't recall - in Texas, I believe) earlier this year in which someone under oath admitted that the true percentage of the population that was either gay or lesbian ran at around two to two-and-a-half percent (roughly, for each group)...that the figure of 10 percent that was promulgated by the gay lobby and subsequently clung to and quoted consistently by gay-rights groups and activists was a fraud.

[cajungirl]

LOL,,you are right. One of my kids lives in an area where some gay people have bought houses, she is married. The neighborhood suddenly has upscale nice little restaurants, a great coffee shop, gorgeous gardens and very kind neighbors. I think this is why this issue is a loser for Bush. Most people know of something similar, a decent gay person at work who is kind to others, a relative one loves no matter what, a gay child, etc. Even if 2% of the country is gay, that makes about 5 or 6 million people,,that is alot of people. And just like racism, it is hard to be harsh about gayness when one gets beyond thinking about body parts and sees a human being you like. This issue is a loser for all.

[Rutles4Ever]

What about having multiple wives? Where does it stop? The definition of marriage -- the accepted social norm for thousands of years -- came from the Word of God -- our moral code. If that definition (man and woman) is gone, then what definition will society go by, and how will they validate it without any higher authority?

[CWW]

Here's another issue that will rear (no pun intended) it's ugly head:

What if a church refuses to perform or recognize gay marriges and the State or Federal gov't threatens to pull the tax exempt status?

It's not far fetched. Many Catholic hospitals are considering shutting their doors rather than being compelled to perform abortions.

Obviously, we will need legislation allowing a conscience clause for churches that disagree with homosexual marriage.

[oceanview]

not according to Robert Bork, he says there will never be an amendment to stop this.

[douglas1]

HI MOTHERBEAR I think a lot of people should be worried about this ,I think here in NEVADA we tried to pass bill to define marriage as being between a man and a woman, and if I am not mistaken it was took down by the gay lobby here, they sayed it was being mean at them, I think there are some states that have this in their constitution, thats what you get when you dont pay attention ,I did nothing.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I think pllural marriage is illegal.

Sorry, but your outdated opinions of marriage don't matter. It's the court that decides. Is there a "constitutionally adequate" reason for preventing plural marriages and not gay marriages? What is it? (Not in your eyes, but in the court's eyes.)