Word: circuitous
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Governor William F. Weld '66 has sagaciously decided that Massachusetts will recognize gay marriages attained in other states after a Hawaiian Circuit Court judge ruled against a ban on legalizing homosexual union. Hawaii's Supreme Court may ultimately strike down the lower court's ruling--which has already been stayed--that the state must show an as-yet unproven compelling interest in order to deny marriage to homosexuals. But the willingness of the Governor to take this step toward legitimizing gay marriages in Massachusetts and elsewhere is encouraging. Furthermore, we hope he and the Massachusetts government will follow Hawaii...
...case was sent back to Hawaii's First Circuit Court, and last week, after extensive testimony from psychologists and sociologists, Judge Kevin S.C. Chang found the state had failed to prove that same-sex marriages would harm children or anybody else. The state immediately appealed the ruling back to the Hawaii Supreme Court. But given its earlier reasoning, that panel is likely to uphold Judge Chang--and there is no further appeal, because the decision is based on the state constitution. By 1998 gay couples may be free to marry in Hawaii...
Members of Harvard's gay community praised the decision by a Circuit Court Judge in Hawaii which moved that state one step closer to recognizing same-sex marriages...
BORN: Nov. 29, 1936, Detroit EDUCATION: Tennessee Technological U, B.S., 1958; U of Tennessee, L.L.B., J.D., 1961 FAMILY: Wife, Kathryn; four children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Army, 1959-60; Army Reserve 1960-69 OCCUPATION: Lawyer; farmer POLITICAL CAREER: Tennessee House, 1962-70; state circuit-court judge, 1990-1996 ADDRESS: 106 East Main Street, Rogersville...
...experience, and Jenkins is counting on precisely that factor to place him in the empty seat. The only Republican Speaker of the Tennessee House this century, Jenkins has been a state Representative, the state Commissioner of Conservation, a member of the Tennessee Valley Authority board of directors and a circuit-court judge--an impressive political track record...