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...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...
...decision by the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), which clarified its historic November ruling, paved the way for same-sex marriages to begin in Massachusetts...
...November, the SJC gave the state Legislature 180 days to grant same-sex couples the right...
Yesterday, the SJC said the bill didn’t go far enough, and explicitly rejected the state Senate’s proposal of civil unions...
...equivocation by the Justices of the SJC in response to the state senate’s request for an advisory opinion about civil union legislation not only would hurt the gay men and lesbians who are counting on the SJC to stick by what it said in November about same-sex marriage but also would hurt the court itself, by undermining its hard-earned reputation for candor and integrity,” he said...