Gay, Black and a Greenie... doesn't hurt to cover all your bases when you are in politics.
Posted on 08/16/2008 8:13:37 AM PDT by kellynla
BOSTON -- The gay marriage fight in Massachusetts might not be over after all.
Opponents of same-sex marriages are seeking a ballot question that would prevent gay and lesbian couples from getting married here if their union wouldn't be legal in their home state.
Brian Camenker of the group Mass Resistance said Friday lawmakers and Gov. Deval Patrick bowed to the will of the "gay lobby" last month by approving the repeal of a 1913 statute that banned such marriages.
Patrick, the state's first black governor and the father of a daughter who recently announced she's a lesbian, said the 1913 law had racial undertones from a period when interracial marriage was discouraged.
"The Legislature and the governor changed our marriage laws to please the well-connected minority and force a social experiment into other states that's very offensive to a majority of the people, at least the way the votes have been going," Camenker said, referring to recent votes in favor of gay marriage bans in other states.
He was particularly critical of an emergency preamble attached to the repeal. It bypassed a normal 90-day waiting period and made the law effective immediately. Opponents typically use the 90 days to present signatures and delay the law until it can be put to a ballot vote.
"The fact that this happened the way it happened just adds to the sense of sleaziness and underhandedness of the whole process," Camenker said.
The group will need about 32,000 signatures to get their question on the ballot.
Gay marriage advocates who had celebrated the repeal said they were disappointed but not surprised by the petition.
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Sure it's over. The Liberals have gotten the laws past despite the People's opposition. They'll fight with great ferocity to keep it legal. The leadership, Governor, and Court are OWNED by the Gay community. No way in hell a repeal will be enacted.
“No way in hell a repeal will be enacted.”
It’s still worth a try. If they do nothing, the outcome is certain.
It’s the right thing to do.
Flee Massachusetts - as you would flee Sodom.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
ANITA BRYANT WAS RIGHT AFTER ALL!
Massachusetts politicians will always find some excuses to truly prevent any and all anti-gay marriage ballot questions as well as any and all anti-gay marriage legislation from ever going through. Also, the majority of Massachusetts voters are leftist to their very core. Everybody who hasn’t either lived in Massachusetts, worked in Massachusetts, or both just doesn’t know how bad it continues to be here when it comes to all of the damage caused by past Massachusetts politics and present Massachusetts politics. Also, if Barack Obama truly becomes the next POTUS along with a majority of Democrats in both the next U.S. House and the next U.S. Senate, then U.S. politics, at the national level, will truly become just like what Massachusetts politics continues to be like at the state level!
I suspect Katherine Deval got her gayness from her father , the governor of Massachusetts
Gay, Black and a Greenie... doesn't hurt to cover all your bases when you are in politics.
Pity is, Virginia is becoming like Mass now... Once my gig here is through, I'm looking elsewhere....
Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s Top Aide Arrested for Raping a Boy http://www.zimbio.com/Governor+Deval+Patrick/articles/12/Massachusetts+Governor+Deval+Patrick+Top+Aide
Will Deval Patrick soon push for Pedophile rights too!?
Florida orange juice is best?
It is a pity, considering that Virginia used to be a bulwark of conservatism against the filth to the north. Do you attribute this to its proximity to DC and emigration from the north?
It is a pity, considering that Virginia used to be a bulwark of conservatism against the filth to the north. Do you attribute this to its proximity to DC and emigration from the north?”
We could cure Virginia’s move to the left by eliminating about 500,000 federal jobs in the DC area and the NOVA govt workers. Defund the Federal leviathan and Virginny would trend right again.
Even Massachusetts has the right to citizen ballot initiatives. I think it's time NY got out of the dark ages and became a democracy, maybe then the state could undo at least some of the damage liberals like these are causing.
This is much like the Mass/NH invasion. The liberals made Mass. an overtaxed socialist PC hellhole. When taxes, homes, and basic necessities went thru the roof, they drove up the road to NH, then started the whole process again...
Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Madison et al are rolling over in their graves.
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