Word: commonwealthers
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...called or e-mailed town clerk Doug Johnstone in Provincetown, Mass., to ask when they can marry. One of the licenses Johnstone's office will issue will be his own. After 25 years together, he and his partner will finally have the chance to say their vows before the commonwealth...
...endangered or threatened, no one wants to spend any money on it,? he says. ?A lot more fundamental monitoring used to be done - and without it, you get caught with your pants down.? Gordon Grigg, professor of zoology at the University of Queensland and a member of the Commonwealth?s Threatened Species Scientific Committee, has been monitoring kangaroos since 1974. He says long-term monitoring usually happens only if a species is commercially harvested, a pest or attracts the interest of scientists or hobbyists. Grigg?s colleague Tony Pople, a population ecologist, agrees: ?Monitoring is a luxury that...
Tomorrow, the Massachusetts State Legislature will consider a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages in the commonwealth...
...while, it seemed as though Massachusetts Gov. W. Mitt Romney would stop at nothing to deny homosexuals in the Commonwealth the right to marry. After the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) deemed same-sex marriage a constitutional right in this state in November, Romney sought to keep marriage a strictly heterosexual institution, offering same-sex couples instead the right to join in “civil unions,” which would grant many of the benefits of marriage without the title. But Romney’s efforts—which were little more than a petty, underhanded attempt...
...privilege of leading? The right to visit a loved one in intensive care? The right to vouch for a loved one’s green card? The right to jointly adopt children in the eyes of the law? Or how about the right to have our state or commonwealth bear witness to our love for each other, instead of pathologizing it and sweeping it under the rug? We have listened to your vague ideas about dignity and value, and, frankly, we have found them sorely wanting...