SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: DOUBLE YOUR PLEASURE ...

... double your fun. Not! At least I for one am hoping not.

A group trying to get a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and civil unions in Massachusetts said Tuesday it had collected twice the number of signatures needed to get the issue on the 2008 ballot.

Vote On Marriage said it would submit over 120-thousand signatures to city and town clerks before tomorrow's 5:00 pm deadline.

A petition needs the support of almost 66-thousand registered voters. The signatures then must be validated by local clerks. The issue must then go to a joint session of legislature were it needs to be approved by at least one-quarter - or 50 - of 200 lawmakers in two separate sessions of the Legislature.

That last one will be the most difficult; we think California is bad with its leftoliberosis, but Massachusetts has that and chronic democratitis. They'll be lucky to find 25 reasonable legislators with spines.

The question would then head to the 2008 ballot, where it must garner the support of a majority of voters.

The success of the Amendment people has been encouraging ...

Vote On Marriage, a conservative political action groups comprised of the Catholic Church and evangelicals, then began its own proposed amendment which would ban both gay marriage and civil unions.

However, polls taken in the state seem to indicate the public would vote down an amendment if it made to the ballot.

Since the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts 6,500 gay and lesbian couples have headed to the altar records from town clerks show. And the number keeps going up daily.

Depressing, isn't it?


Homosexual; Gay marriage; Massachusetts; Marriage amendment