[Happy2BMe]

From the land of Barney Franks, John Kerry, and Ted Kennedy . .

[Happy2BMe]

This PING brought to you by Barney Franks, John Kerry, Ted Kennedy, and the Mass. Supreme Court . .

[swarthyguy]

The court has dropped a bomb in the lap of the Democrat Party.

Bush can use this single issue to win. Run a cultural campaign on this one issue.

Kerry will dance all over this, satisfying no-one.

Funny, I can't smoke a fag in a bar but can marry one in MA.

[DuncanWaring]

Would marriages in Massachusetts have to be recognized legally in other states or by the federal government?

Well, lessee now.

Under the "Full Faith and Credit" provision of the Federal Constitution, if I've got a driver's license from Kentucky, I can legally drive in Massachusetts.

If I've got a driver's license from Vermont, I can legally drive in Massachusetts.

If I've got a Concealed Carry permit from Kentucky, I CAN'T legally carry concealed in Massachusetts.

If Massachusetts refuses to recognize self-defense provisions of other states, even though they are Constitutionally obligated to, then the rest of the states have no obligation to recognize said "marriages" outside of MA.

[CaptainK]

Oh, to be a divorce lawyer in Massachusetts. These should be bountiful years.

[angkor]

Massachusetts Constitution:

Chapter III. JUDICIARY POWER.

Article V. All causes of marriage, divorce, and alimony, and all appeals from the judges of probate shall be heard and determined by the governor and council, until the legislature shall, by law, make other provision.

[jimt]

"Whatever your view is of marriage, it's my belief that fair-minded people oppose writing discrimination into the constitution," said Barrios, who is gay.

It is not discrimination to retain the millenia-old definition of marriage, which to my knowledge has never included "same sex marriage".

What will be discrimination, assuming the homosexuals get their way, is any restrictions other than age on who gets to be marriage partners. Multiple partners, human-animal partners (animals are property), inanimate object partners, including cadavers (property) - none of these can be "discriminated" against in light of this looney-tunes decision.

If the homosexuals are successful, and I lived in Mass, I'd immediately file suit for a multiple partner marriage. Next I'd file to include my sister - or brother. Then my dog. Then my car...

[expatpat]

It's time for Legislatures to put the courts back in their place, and regain their pre-eminence in making laws. They should ignore any new law sent down from the courts. It would be ironic and sweet if the first place this happened was Massachusetts!

[N. Theknow]

If it comes down to a Constitutional ammendment that marriage should be between a man and a woman, it better have a clause in it that it refers to a genetic man and woman.
Otherwise the lawyers are gonna have a field day defining "Man" and "Woman."

Also the crowd that thinks you can walk into a garden and take an axe to a prickly pear(pair?) and make it a rose bush will have to be taken into account.