Governor Patrick continues lobbying against anti-gay marriage amendement
Governor Patrick continues lobbying to kill the anti-gay marriage amendment:
Patrick, who said he wants a vote on the merits of the amendment, said he didn’t underestimate the strength of the supporters of the question.
“There are still great passions and great fear and great intolerance on the other side,” he said.
The governor is attempting to block the legislation until the “bigots” come around, which would be never in my case because my real problem isn’t so much with gay marriage as how it was implemented. It was a judicial overreach infringing on the legislative branch’s responsibilities. Ironically, Governor Patrick is more than happy with the judicial overreach that mandated gay marriage, but refuses to heed their instructions that the state constitution requires the legislature to vote on the anit-gay marriage amendment. This has a lot less to do with equality and the law than it does with pandering to one of the governor’s favorite special interests.
Archived in: Constitution, Gay Marriage, MassachusettsJune 7, 2007 at 8:25 pm | Trackback
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As per your post relative to “The Base”, Rhod,
“I am not so much an enemy of the immigration bill as I am of the preposterous assumptions which both compose it, and undermine it, at the same time.”
…..and as per your post as above, OP,
“The governor is attempting to block the legislation until the “bigots” come around, which would be never in my case because my real problem isn’t so much with gay marriage as how it was implemented.”
………Like, you guys have a problem! Like, you’re WAY too logical and you think WAY too much! I’m SOOOO bored…..
Lindsey Graham describes us as “the loud folk”, Helen.
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