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Mass. Gays: "Strike Down 1913 Law" (You've gotta be kidding me...)
Fox News ^ | 7/13/04 | AP

Posted on 07/13/2004 2:33:51 PM PDT by ICX

Edited on 07/13/2004 2:53:44 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Mass. Gay Couples: Strike Down 1913 Law Tuesday, July 13, 2004

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Attorney Michele Granda asked Superior Court Judge Carol Ball to block the state from enforcing the 91-year-old law, which prohibits marriages that would be illegal in a couple's home state. She said the statute violates both the U.S. Constitution and Massachusetts (search) law.

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This law was probably a protection against polygamists, not racial intermarriage...but what are details to crazed, agenda driven ideologues?
1 posted on 07/13/2004 2:33:53 PM PDT by ICX
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To: ICX

mass confusion w/o a constitutional amendment.


2 posted on 07/13/2004 2:36:44 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: ICX

Wanna strike down a law from 1913? How about the federal income tax!


3 posted on 07/13/2004 2:40:48 PM PDT by RockinRight
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To: ICX

Wow, my map must be out of date. Exactly what part of NY borders on MA?


4 posted on 07/13/2004 2:42:09 PM PDT by blanknoone (The NAACP --->NAADP National Association for the Advancement of the Democrat Party.)
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To: ICX

Let nothing stand in the way of the radical gay agenda! Surely there was a discriminatory intent behind the 1913 law!

For those Americans who are complacent about the march toward homosexual marriage, here's a preview of the future: (1) churches that refuse to marry homosexual couples -- or even speak out against it -- will have their tax exempt status denied as "discriminatory organizations." (The Supreme Court precedent for this is already in place under the BOB JONES decision of 1986; (2) homosexual marriage will have to be taught and accepted as the moral equivalent of normal marriage in all public schools and in the public forum, and (3) free speech rights of those who oppose homosexual rights will eventually be denied and fines and prison will be levied upon them for daring to utter such "hate speech." This is already happening in Canada and Sweden.

This nightmare is already at the door. The failure of conservatives to wake up and demand enactment of the Federal Marriage Amendment was the death knell of any opposition.


5 posted on 07/13/2004 2:44:11 PM PDT by Elpasser (Sad decline of the DMN)
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To: ICX

Their agenda is not just equality, they want special consideration and protection under the law for their perversion.


6 posted on 07/13/2004 2:44:34 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
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To: blanknoone

The eastern part of NY


7 posted on 07/13/2004 2:47:39 PM PDT by 2nd amendment mama (Can The Ban - let the AWB sunset • www.2asisters.org • www.cantheban.net)
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To: blanknoone

8 posted on 07/13/2004 2:52:23 PM PDT by ICX (To think that all problems could be solved if people behaved responsibly is irresponsible!)
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To: ICX

Oh, that part. < blush>


9 posted on 07/13/2004 2:56:40 PM PDT by blanknoone (The NAACP --->NAADP National Association for the Advancement of the Democrat Party.)
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To: Elpasser
Really now, passing an amendment is going to reign in totalitarian minded activist judges?!

I think it's already time for a much more robust response. First, "W" has to federalize the Massachusetts National Guard and direct it to seize the Massachusetts judiciary. They can then be shipped to our friends in Afghanistan for safe keeping, or possibly even storage in an international shipping container or two.

Second, "W" merely asks "Who's next? We've got a real war to fight with a bunch of people who want to kill all of us and no one has time for this nonsense from people who wish to misuse their private parts."

10 posted on 07/13/2004 2:59:53 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: ICX

The phony claim of "states' rights" is being exposed once again.


11 posted on 07/13/2004 3:03:15 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: blanknoone

Upstate! The Albany area!


12 posted on 07/13/2004 3:09:51 PM PDT by Mears
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To: *Homosexual Agenda; EdReform; scripter; GrandMoM; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; ...

Homosexual Agenda Ping - "Gay Marriage" - A Weapon of Mass. Desctruction.

What more need be said? They want to rule, crush, dominate, and destroy moral absolutes and all who believe in them.

They are the most intolerant, divisive, disrespectful, dishonest and untrustworthy group in the US today, possibly vying with any Al Qaeda nuke planners.

let me know if you want on/off this pinglist.


13 posted on 07/13/2004 3:27:44 PM PDT by little jeremiah ("You're possibly the most ignorant, belligerent, and loathesome poster on FR currently." - tdadams)
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To: muawiyah

Hey, Muawiyah, stop trying to make friends with me!

You gotta point, ya know? I mean the Left is already accusing W of being a lying, Nazi dictator. Why not live up to their expectations for a change?


14 posted on 07/13/2004 3:35:52 PM PDT by Elpasser (Sad decline of the DMN)
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To: ICX

This is just their little plan so that other states will be forced to recognize their marriages. And the gays could care less about being married; what they want to is force acceptance of themselves to the point where the Christian religion is forced to be silent or else face "hate crime" accusations. As it is in Canada now.


15 posted on 07/13/2004 4:28:56 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (When anything goes, everything does.)
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And the gays could care less about being married; what they want to is force acceptance of themselves to the point where the Christian religion is forced to be silent or else face "hate crime" accusations. As it is in Canada now.

Amen, brother.

16 posted on 07/13/2004 5:18:02 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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To: L.N. Smithee
Amen, brother.

Er, I'm a she.

No big deal, thanks for the amen!

17 posted on 07/13/2004 5:34:57 PM PDT by 3catsanadog (When anything goes, everything does.)
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