[Vision2020] Gay Marriage now legal
Melynda Huskey
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Well, it's not quite the walk over you (and I) were wishing for, Donovan.
The Massachusetts court has found no adequate constitutional grounds for
denying marriage rights to same-sex couples. So they've remanded the
question to the state legislature for a solution--just as happened in
Vermont. As you know, the solution there was "civil union," which is not
quite marriage, but pretty close. And owing to the 38 state so-called
"Defense of Marriage" Acts, and the federal Defense of Marriage Act, no
state is presently obliged to recognize another state's same-sex civil
unions or marriages. The Governor of Massachusetts has already said that he
would like to enact a DOMA, and that he will veto any civil union
legislation which reaches his desk. So it's anybody's guess how the
politics will play out in the Mass. legislature. My colleagues there aren't
sanguine--it's going to be a long and dirty fight, they expect.
On the other hand, our neighbor to the North has gone for the whole
enchilada: it's marriage, plain and simple, up there.
I'm learning the words to the Canadian national anthem . . .
Melynda Huskey
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<DIV>CNN and FOX are reporting the Massachusetts Supreme Court has ruled that it is illegal to bar gays and lesbians from getting married. It has ordered the Massachusetts legislature to rewrite the laws (just like Vermont was except marriage, not civil unions).</DIV>
<DIV>What will be interesting is if this if the marriage can be carried to other states under full faith and credit like other marriages of couples in heterosexual couples.</DIV>
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