United States Senate Republican Policy CommitteeJon Kyl, Chairman347 Russell Senate Office BuildingWashington DC 20510http://rpc.senate.govFebruary 11, 2004Same-Sex Marriages Legal in Massachusetts on May 17Judicial Activism Forces Same-Sex Marriage on the NationA 4-3 majority of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled last November in Goodridge v. Massachusetts Dep’t of Health, 798 N.E. 2d 941 (Mass. 2003), that the state’s refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples violated the state constitution. The court concluded that to insist on traditional marriage was to engage in “invidious” discrimination that the court would not tolerate. The majority, therefore, ruled that marriage must be open...