"Gay marriage backlash not felt in Massachusetts"

BOSTON - The national Election Day backlash against gay marriage never reached the state blamed for triggering it: Every Massachusetts lawmaker on the ballot who supported gay rights won another term in the Legislature.

The election outcome, combined with the ascendancy of a new state House speaker who supports gay rights, has left in doubt the fate of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Massachusetts.

The amendment, which would also legalize civil unions, won first-round approval from lawmakers earlier this year. It must be approved again by the newly elected 200-member Legislature before it can be submitted to the voters for ratification in November 2006.

"I think we are in a far, far better position than ever before," said Josh Friedes, spokesman for the Massachusetts Freedom to Marry Coalition. "The electorate showed that it was incredibly tolerant."

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"Our state is certainly totally out of step with the rest of the nation," said Kris Mineau, leader of the Massachusetts Family Institute, the organization that has led the fight against gay marriage in Massachusetts. "Massachusetts residents must be beginning to ask themselves, `How come we're different than the rest of the country?'"


Gee, maybe people in Massachusetts have brains?

As far as I'm concerned, Massachusetts is totally AHEAD of step with the rest of the nation!


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I live in Michigan, but I truly admire your state.

"Massachusetts Family Institute" suffer in the same way that they have caused others to suffer. Hopefully Crews will now leave Massachusetts and return from whence he came . . . since he was duly and deliberately kicked in his ass in his congressional bid against McGovern!

Massachusetts will not miss Ronald A. Crews, his hate mongering organizations, nor his insidious attempts to join our state's congressional representatives.

http://www.commondreams.org/news2004/0311-09.htm

All of you disaffected folks out there in the red states, please feel free to Massachusetts! We would welcome you with open arms.

I love being in the vanguard of the nation!

And Ron Crews, please crawl back under that rock you came from...

Crews got the boot as did that Romney's beloved Jane in Middlesex/Worcester district! Pam Resor was specifically targeted by Romney for ouster and SHE WON - screw you Mittens!

"Out of step with the nation"? "Different than the rest of the country"? "The electorate showed that it was incredibly tolerant"! Damn right and damn frickin' proud of it!

I love Massachusetts. It's so nice to live in a place where GOP scum are an oppressed minority.