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...experiencing that trouble because I have realized—as I believe it would aid many of us in the Commonwealth to realize—that our religious beliefs legally have absolutely no bearing on the situation whatsoever...
...this social earthquake on Beacon Hill, the shocks of which are being felt across the nation, has sparked a completely different question in my head than whether the state should extend civil marriage to homosexuals. Instead I’ve been wondering what business the Commonwealth has in “marrying” anyone—gay or straight?...
Before you pen that acidulous letter about how we’re all blind ultra-liberal children of privilege/zealot communists bent on societal destruction, read on: I would actually propose that the Commonwealth “marry” no one—as it has no business trafficking in areas with such religious implication and passion—and rather secure the right of civil union for all of its citizens, leaving the churches/synagogues/temples to decide their definition of marriage...
Indeed, it is not a discussion of religious precedent or personal moral persuasion that we are having today in the Commonwealth but strictly a semantic discussion of whether the rights guaranteed to the straight can be legally denied to the gay, and constitutionally they cannot. If the word “marriage” and its religious connotation are the primary obstacles to the extension of these rights, then let us remove this troublesome word from our laws and endow all of our citizens with the same right to form a civil union with an other in the eyes...
Expect brooding dissonant guitars and stilted lyrics from indie-rockers Blonde Redhead, the New York trio who just released their seventh album, and 4AD debut, titled Misery Is a Butterfly. Texan alt rock band Secret Machines open. Tickets $16. 18+. 9 p.m. The Paradise Rock Club, 969 Commonwealth Ave., Boston...