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Since the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled against the constitutionality of restricting marriage to heterosexual couples in November, opponents of gay marriage have stopped at almost nothing to delay the issuing of marriage licenses to gay couples scheduled to begin on May 17. The latest comes from Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who is seeking, through emergency legislation, to appoint a special counsel that would ask the court to postpone its final ruling for another couple of years—in hopes that a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage recently approved by the state legislature may be passed by voters...
...seem primarily an issue of abstract morality, the possibility that in less than a month Massachusetts citizens—and maybe even some Harvard students—will be among the first gay couples in the country to marry makes the matter seem much more real. If the SJC lets its ruling stand, the question of gay marriage will pass quickly from the realm of panel discussions and philosophical debate to the realm of Massachusetts residents’ daily lives as homosexual couples begin to enjoy a right heterosexual couples take largely for granted. The state of Massachusetts is extremely...
...majority rule is the ideological basis of any democracy, the principle that the rights of the minority should be protected is equally fundamental to both the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States. One of the primary functions of the judicial system is to provide this protection, which the SJC did in its November ruling. By attempting to circumvent the court’s ruling, Romney is undermining the essential precautions that the government has set up against the disenfranchisement of minorities...
...delegation from Harvard’s Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) marked the group’s second activist foray to Boston since a November Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling that declared same-sex marriages legal under the state constitution as it currently stands...
...November, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled in a 4-3 decision that it was unconstitutional to disallow same-sex marriages in the state...