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Last week, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge James F. McHugh overturned a Cambridge city ordinance granting healthcare benefits to the "domestic partners" of homosexual city employees. The suit in which McHugh ruled was filed by the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a Virginia-based law firm founded by noted evangelist Pat Robertson, which claimed that the domestic partnerships recognized by the Cambridge ordinance were "a Trojan Horse for same-sex marriage." However, while McHugh rejected this claim, noting that the Cambridge statute intended only "to provide a better life for those who daily serve its citizens," an archaic...
Middlesex Superior Court Judge James F. McHugh ordered Cambridge, the first city in Massachusetts to offer benefits to couples in domestic partnerships, to stop paying the benefits by the end of next January...
...McHugh found Cambridge's ordinance unconstitutional because it conflicted with the state law, but discarded McCarthy's claims that the ordinance was an attempt to legitimize homosexual marriage...
...Although the action the city took was improper, it took that action in an effort to provide a better life for those who daily serve its citizens," McHugh wrote in his decision. "It says nothing about marriage...
...delivery pie, forcing the Postal Service to contract with the likes of DHL and Emery Worldwide just to maintain its global reach. Although still delivering 40% of the world's mail, the men and women in blue just can't seem to keep pace. Says Representative John McHugh, a New York Republican, whose postal-reform bill has been stuck in congressional limbo for six years: "The postal system is heading toward a disaster of tremendous consequences...