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.

[knak]

I think it is abusive to children, they deserve their full time father.

How can you think that and then think it's ok for two women to raise a child or two men to raise a child?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Hot dogs and donuts?

Fudge or carpet samples?

[cajungirl]

Well I am not a bartcop. It is a shock to people here but not all conservatives are as socially conservative as others.

[finnman69]

What a platform for the RATS!:

Higher Taxes, Don't fight the terrorists, let guys marry other guys.

A "perfect storm".

[cajungirl]

I never said that.

[Grampa Dave]

Ma., the land of Ted Kennedy and Ketchup Kerry, so this doesn't surprise me at all.

Those worthless lunatic libs in Ma. might make heterosexual marriage illegal any day now.

[ken5050]

Listen..stick to your guns..you make a good argument, though you and I differ....but don't get down in the trash with them..

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

HOOT! LOL!

Fur traders and boy stalkers.....

[LTCJ]

I'll give you Solomon and David as examples.

Rest assured, I never said you couldn't show examples of plural marriage in the Old Testament. The challenge is to show an example where they worked out well.

[knak]

To: Rutles4Ever

I think it is abusive to women. Every woman deserves her own husband to have full time rights to nag. I think it is abusive to children, they deserve their full time father. I think polygymists are outlaws. I never met one. Polygymists marry under age girls, they use religion to abuse their wives and children.

352 posted on 11/18/2003 10:12 AM MST by cajungirl (no) [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 341 | View Replies | Report Abuse

[CatoRenasci]

It was from a professor at Mt. Holyoke that I first learned about LUGS (Lesbians Until Graduation): the homosexual pressure at the college was so great, this professor told me, girls would entire into lesbian relationships even though they were predominately heterosexual in their inclinations. They joked about it as a way to be socially accepted and to stay focused on their work without the distraction of guys. When the graduated and moved to Boston or New York (the destinations for most), they revert to men and, in many cases, get married and raise families. Apparently this has been going on at Holyoke for twenty years or so, although it seems (I am told) to have become almost universal in the past few years.

In college searching for our daughter last year, we carefully investigated most of the Seven Sisters (Smith, Mt. Holyoke, Bryn Mawr, Radcliffe (now fully integrated into Hahvahd), Wellesley, Vassar, and Barnard). Wellesley remains the strongest academically, and they were very interested in my daughter. However, her visit, and the lesbian host she stayed with, quickly convinced her it was not the place for her. A number of alumnae I know are very upset at the whole thing, but don't know what to do, as more and more homosexuals are attracted to the schools, and fewer and fewer heterosexual women are willing to go.

[Mears]

Poor me,my Senators are Kerry and Kennedy and my Congressman is Barney Frank.I doubt if I contact them it would do much good.

Hope all you posters from other states contact your elected officials to get something done about this.

This was passed just in time for Newton North H.S. in Newton Mass's "Transgender,Bisexual,`Gay,and Lesbian Day" on December 10.

This state has become a sink.

[af_vet_1981]

We must free the people to make their own choices.

I was not in favor of this. You make a persuasive argument about freeing the people to make their own choices if we extend no protection to a perverted lifestyle of choice. What would they have done with this problem in 1792 ? They would have squashed it like a bug.

The vast majority will make the right choice. Absent the force of government, the forces of social normalcy will win every time.

[P-Marlowe]

This ruling cannot be limited to just "gay" couples. The Court has essentially ruled that there are no limitations on marriage between two or more adults. Polygamy cannot be prohibited. Neither can a marriage between a brother and sister. Neither can a marriage between a Father and Daughter or a Father and son or a mother and a son or a mother and a daughter, or a polygamous marriage between a father and his son and daughter or many sons and daughters.

This ruling is as insane as can be. This is the end of the judiciary and common sense. I cannot respect a court that would make such a stupid insane ruling. But this is what the godless democrats have wrought upon this nation.

I am not surprised.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

"Transgender,Bisexual,`Gay,and Lesbian Day" on December 10.

I'm quite sure that they've added "Questioning" to the title. If they haven't, they will soon, as this is used to recruit adolescents who are unsure about their sexuality or are just having trouble fitting in.

[longtermmemmory]

This fits in with Dean's take on the subject. Dean advocates NO marriage JUST civil unions. This fits in with the de-recognistion of marriage as an institution.

In other words there will no longer be a marriage license which is non-religious. (priests are generally notaries and they execute the marriage license in their capacity as a notary for Gov purposes.) The only document to be issued will be a domestic partnership agreement.

This is more a move to make marriage a mere contract. Of course this would make all the model laws on domestic relations irrelivant.

[NutCrackerBoy]

I appreciate your posts on this forum, jwalsh07.

[xzins]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1024056/posts?page=250#250

Go to the above and tell me what you think of those ideas about civil disobedience.

What would you add to the list, if anything? What do you think of the idea?

What would happen if 100's of 100,000's participated?

[longtermmemmory]

Adult incest is legal.

Polygamy will become legal based on the contractual model Mass has adopted.

Homosexuals have always sought to do away with the age of consent. They want your children.

The homosexual movement is now officially the modern inheritors of the National Socialist movement of 1930-40's Germany. They have used their tactics to a tee. Where are the "never again" people?

[freetradenotfree]

First woman approved as head of Massachusetts high court

BOSTON (AP) — Justice Margaret Marshall was elevated to chief justice of Massachusetts' highest court Wednesday, becoming the first woman to head the nation's oldest appellate court.

Ms. Marshall, a former chief counsel at Harvard University, overcame charges of anti-Catholic bias to win a 6-3 confirmation vote by the Governor's Council, which votes on nominations by the governor.

"1 follow in the footsteps of giants," Ms. Marshall said. "1 do so with humility, and with a deep commitment to the rule of law."

Ms. Marshall, 55, a native of South Africa,

was appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in 1996. She was at Harvard at the time and had previously been in private practice.

Her nomination to head the 307-year-old court was marred when Cardinal Bernard Law raised concerns that she harbored anti-Catholic bias.

Law, who heads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, wrote last month to Gov. Paul Cellucci and said Ms. Marshall was "open to serious charges of anti-Catholicism."

He cited an incident in which Ms. Marshall, while at Harvard, chastised a professor who had used university stationery for a personal note with an anti-abortion message.

Catholic groups also feared she could not be impartial on abortion cases because she once served on an abortion clinic's board of trustees. Ms. Marshall denied her personal views would affect her role as jurist.

Law later retracted his complaint after speaking with Ms. Marshall, who is Protestant. "She gave me her assurance that she was not anti-Catholic," he said, "and I have absolutely no reason to not accept her word on that."

Is Justice Margaret Marshall a U.S Citizens?