Amendment Targets Gay Marriage in Massachusetts

News:

This week, Massachusetts lawmakers will consider a constitutional amendment intended to roll back the state’s law, unique in the country, which allows same-sex couples to wed. The initiative has been championed by Republican governor Mitt Romney, said to considering a presidential bid, and several of the state’s high-ranking Catholic officials. The bishops have rejected criticism of the amendment as discriminatory, saying same-sex couples are suffering from “an exaggerated sense of entitlement” in believing they deserve the same rights as other American citizens. 165 prominent business and civic leaders, including the mayor of Boston, have taken out an ad in Boston papers urging the state legislature to reject the amendment.

Codifying discrimination

This amendment, an attempt to placate the fundamentalist zelots, will codify bigotry and discrimination in the MA contitution, a first for that state. Also, what will happen to the hundreds of couples who are now legally married? With the stroke of a pen their legal rights will be taken away, and that is the heart of the matter. The theocratic movement in this country must be stopped. Freedom cannot exist in a theocracy, that is what our forefathers feared when the added the seperation of church and state.

Hardy Haberman
http://dungeondiary.blogspot.com/

By blklthrjktJuly 10, 2006 - 9:04am