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2004-05-19 - 2:34 p.m.

Maggie Gallagher and President Bush can shut their intolerant, hate-mongering pieholes.

For those who don't recognize the names and guess the issue, yes, this is a political rant, you'd best move on if that makes you uncomfortable.

The first ever Legally Sanctioned Same-Sex Marriages in the United States have occurred in Massachusetts.

And, of course, rather than celebrating the fact that a section of Society which has been marginalized and demonized, at least in part, for being "Bed-Hopping Sex Fiends not willing to settle down into a relationship" have decided that they should solemnize in front of the State and God (for those who are religious) their Union, the Christian Reich has determined that we must amend our Federal Constitution to invalidate these marriages.

"Same-Sex Marriage should be decided by the People, not the Courts" is the rallying Cry of the Movement. What they fail to realize (mostly because Faux News and Rush Blowhard haven't bothered mentioning it to them) is that the People *did* make that decision.

The Consitution of the State of Massachusetts (as found at The Massachusetts State Web Site ) says, in part "All people are born free and equal and have certain natural, essential and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.", and "It is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property, and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit..."

In short, the People of Massachusetts specifically *GAVE* their judges the power to interpret the State Constitution. That doesn't just mean "The Power to interpret the State Constitution in Politically Expedient Ways", which would certainly make the Right Wing happy, but it isn't how things work.

There is a fundemental principle in the State Constitution which says that discrimination is bad. The Court said this was Discrimination, game over.

Of course, many other states had to promptly go nutsoid and pass hastily written crapola laws that say "Yeah...well...you can think that, but you just stay in your own state, don't come down here y'all" (like...oh...Virginia's law, which could be interpreted to ban just about any contract between two males or two females, which the Republican Legislature passed over the veto of the Democratic Governor, as much as a Partisan Political Move as anything else.

Plain and simple...*NO ONE GETS HARMED WHEN TWO GAY PEOPLE WED*. What part of that can't Hardcore Conservatives understand?

Oh, I forget...it's bad because Fox says so...

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