State's high court upholds ruling on gay marriage ballot question (MA)

MaineDem

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Tue Dec-30-03 06:30 PM
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State's high court upholds ruling on gay marriage ballot question (MA)

BOSTON -- The state's highest court on Tuesday upheld that the state Legislature was within its rights to adjourn last year without voting on a constitutional amendment that would have outlawed gay marriage in Massachusetts.

The lawsuit filed by Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage claimed that the Legislature violated the state Constitution by failing to vote on the initiative, which sought to put the question of gay marriage to voters in a ballot referendum.

A single justice of the state Supreme Judicial Court dismissed the complaint in February.

Massachusetts Citizens for Marriage appealed that decision to the full court, which heard arguments in May.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2003/12/30/states_high_court_upholds_ruling_on_gay_marriage_ballot_question/

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Q3JR4

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Tue Dec-30-03 06:59 PM
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1. Hold it up enough

and soon no one will have a problem with it.

:bounce: :toast: :bounce:

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pinto

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Tue Dec-30-03 07:43 PM
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2. great, interim, ruling!

The court in MA is holding a strict constitutional line.

Appellate ("Mass for Marriage"? group) asked the court to make the legislature act. Court said, but nooooooooo, a court can't make the legislature act.......called separation of powers. Love it!

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Tue Dec-30-03 11:31 PM
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3. thank you, MaineDem, for that excellent news n/t

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xchrom

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Wed Dec-31-03 06:01 AM
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4. goose bumps

i love good news like this.
sometimes the culture moves forward -- and it's a lovely, wonderful thing to behold.

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