The Christianist fundies are going to be going absolutely ape shit. I suspect that after having legal gay marriages in place, most legislators now realize that gay marriage poses ZERO threat to heterosexual marrige. After all, Massachusetts has the lowest divorce rate in the USA. The Boston Globe breaking news report can be found at: (http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/06/legislators_vot_1.html
Highlights are as follows:
A proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage was defeated today by a joint session of the Legislature by a vote of 45 to 151, eliminating any chance of getting it on the ballot in November 2008. At least 50 votes were needed to advance the measure.
The vote came after House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi, Senate President Therese Murray, and Governor Deval Patrick conferred this morning and concluded that they have the votes to kill the proposal.
Opponents of gay marriage face an increasingly tough battle to win legislative approval of any future petitions to appear on a statewide ballot. The next election available to them is 2012.
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