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MA to anti-Gay Bigots: Hold Your Breath
Nov. 9th, 2006 07:13 pmToday, the Massachusetts state legislature met in constitutional convention to consider putting an amendment to the state constitution to ban gay marriage.
And then, they tabled the motion to the last day they were allowed to table it to: January 2, 2007. That is the last day of this current legislature, before the next one gets sworn in and before governor-elect Deval Patrick (who considers marriage a civil right, available to all) gets sworn in, and the Mormon leaves office.
This is the only thing they could do, short of actually voting down the proposal. All they have to do on January 2 is not vote on it, and then their session expires. This allows them to leave gay marriage in Massachusetts without having to tell their rabid constituents that they actually voted against their wishes.
Meanwhile, many same-gender married couples in Massachusetts are approaching their fifth anniversaries. The reactionary jeremiads of the bigots are being proven more false with every day of normalcy.
This is approaching a done deal.
Hooray.
And then, they tabled the motion to the last day they were allowed to table it to: January 2, 2007. That is the last day of this current legislature, before the next one gets sworn in and before governor-elect Deval Patrick (who considers marriage a civil right, available to all) gets sworn in, and the Mormon leaves office.
This is the only thing they could do, short of actually voting down the proposal. All they have to do on January 2 is not vote on it, and then their session expires. This allows them to leave gay marriage in Massachusetts without having to tell their rabid constituents that they actually voted against their wishes.
Meanwhile, many same-gender married couples in Massachusetts are approaching their fifth anniversaries. The reactionary jeremiads of the bigots are being proven more false with every day of normalcy.
This is approaching a done deal.
Hooray.
