SAME-SEX MARRIAGE BAN ADVANCES IN MASSACHUSETTS

“A week after the state’s highest court declared lawmakers had a duty to cast a vote, the Massachusetts Legislature yesterday advanced a proposed constitutional amendment t ban same-sex marriage, pushing it over a critical hurdle to get onto the 2008 state ballot” (Boston Globe). Predictably, the Boston Globe editorialized on this issue calling it “A Shameful Reversal of Rights” (Eileen McNamara, “This Battle’s Worth a Fight”).