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Massachusetts: land of the pretenders.(Insider Report)
The leaders of the leftist-controlled Massachusetts Senate had the final laugh on March 29. That was when the state constitutional convention approved a constitutional amendment that would: 1) define marriage as a union between one man and one woman; and 2) enshrine same-sex "civil unions" within the state constitution as the legal equivalent of marriage.
Vinny DeMacedo, a Republican from the lower house, said in disgust: "We're saying, 'No problem, you can vote to define marriage as between a man and a woman, but the only way you can do it is if you create civil unions that are entirely the same as marriage.' Ultimately, if this ever makes it to the ballot, it will fail."
The proposed state constitutional amendment was being considered as a possible way of forestalling a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling that decreed homosexual couples ...
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