[concerned about politics]

Bush is about to get millions in donations for his reelection now, no doubt. Just think of what we could pick up in the Senate with this fetish law. Normal people will be running to the polls to vote right wing.
This could end the Democrat party as we know it. That would be an acceptable Divine retribution.
I feel sorry for those who'll have to live in Massachusetts now, especially if they have children. Homosexuals will be like cock roaches (pun intended).

[Hemingway's Ghost]

This could end the Democrat party as we know it.

This could also very well destroy, finally, the Democratic machine that is Massachusetts politics. The Democratic state party---whatever its formal name is---"came out" for Gay Marriage. Now, as I'm sure you know, the General Court is so dominated by Democrats that it might as well be all Democrats. Yet, ostensibly anyway, they're still beholden to do their constituent's bidding, and there's no way in hell the rank-and-file voters in Massachusetts favor gay marriage. The same voters who elected Mitt Romney in the face of an overwhelming Democratic machine? NO WAY.

The most powerful man in Massachusetts, Speaker of the House Tom Finneran, will not support gay marriage, thereby bucking his own party. So there you have it: power vs. machine.