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...protections, benefits and obligations of civil marriage, a person who enters into an intimate, exclusive union with another of the same sex is arbitrarily deprived of membership in one of our community’s most rewarding and cherished institutions,” the court declared in its majority opinion, written by Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall, Harvard’s former general counsel...
...opinion provoked immediate criticism from gay marriage opponents including Gov. W. Mitt Romney, who advocated for an amendment to the state constitution limiting marriage to heterosexual couples as a way to circumvent the court’s ruling...
...February, after the state senate asked the SJC for an advisory opinion on whether a compromise bill allowing civil unions would satisfy the court’s ruling, the justices responded in a 4-3 decision that only marriage would be constitutional...
...civil union’ and ‘civil marriage’ is not innocuous; it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual, couples to second-class status,” the justices wrote in their majority opinion...
...opinion is if you deserve an A, you should get it,” says John P. Kachichian ’04, an economics concentrator who expects to graduate cum laude. “What if 90 percent deserve...