Gay marriage opponents seek to reverse new law

[babsbunny]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080816/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage;_ylt=AnitwCwQsV29sZMJOtIo3KZ34T0D

By GLEN JOHNSON, AP Political Writer
1 hour, 32 minutes ago


BOSTON - The gay marriage fight in Massachusetts might not be over after all.


Opponents of same-sex marriages are seeking a ballot question that would prevent gay and lesbian couples from getting married here if their union wouldn't be legal in their home state.

Brian Camenker of the group Mass Resistance said Friday lawmakers and Gov. Deval Patrick bowed to the will of the "gay lobby" last month by approving the repeal of a 1913 statute that banned such marriages.

Patrick, the state's first black governor and the father of a daughter who recently announced she's a lesbian, said the 1913 law had racial undertones from a period when interracial marriage was discouraged.

[barbtries]

1. you'd really think they'd have something

better to do with their time than to legislate other people's private lives.

[TommyO]

2. These people are pure evil

If it involves something positive for gay people, they'll fight it with every bigoted, hateful bone in their body.

[moose65]

3. Sheesh, don't they ever give up??

What motivates these people? Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Camenker once say he had gay friends? How could you do something so rotten to your friends?

[Rob H.]

4. To hear the right-wing fundagelicals tell it

a person would think there's nothing at all wrong with anything else that's going on. War? Recession? People losing their homes? Rising consumer prices? Meh. A gay or lesbian couple getting married? OHMYGOSHWEHAVETOSTOPTHEMRIGHTNOWORTHEWORLDWILLCOMETOANEND!!!!11!!!1!

Idiots.

[gratuitous]

5. Time's a-wastin'!

Massachusetts recognized an obvious fact and decided to quit denying the plain evidence right before their eyes. This discombobulated some people so badly that they convinced themselves that the Wrath of God was going to come down on all of society! And then, something even worse than the Wrath of God happened - nothing. The rivers didn't run with blood; the sun didn't go dark; no hordes of locusts; and the number of frogs seems to be dwindling, rather than plagues of them overrunning our cities.

Sure, Fred Phelps and his deranged family and followers want to celebrate every extra puff of wind or every death as proof of Divine Pissed-Offedness, but really. I mean, you read Exodus, and God really knew how to throw some curses once upon a time! The Big Guy just doesn't seem to have the moxie to do much more than flood a couple of neighborhoods in New Orleans anymore. But nobody's getting turned into pillars of salt, all of humanity isn't being wiped out, hell we can't even get a false prophet's donkey to say a few words.

It's pretty freaky for some of our friends. If nothing keeps happening, it might almost look like they were wro--. Like they were wr-r-r . . . Like they weren't 100% correctamundo.

[Orsino]

6. Will they be responsible for all the alimony?

After all their talk about "threats" to marriage, will they finally admit they they are trying to tear families apart? Or will they see that they are being used by the big-time right-wingers to prop up Republican candidates on Election Day?