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Blue Mass. Group reports there'll be a rally at 6 p.m. at Park Street station to protest yesterday's vote in Maine to rescind a law allowing for same-sex marriages.
Channel 4 reports the Commonwealth has filed a lawsuit against the federal law that defines marriage as the union of a man and a woman.
Ryan Adams reports on, posts video of a protest over the federal Defense of Marriage Act outside a Demmie fundraiser at Fenway last night.
Though Mass folks might be content with our laws regarding gay marriage, the leftover dischord among supporters and opponents in California Prop 8 has reached the courts. Read more
Cubicle Girl attended the rally against California's Proposition 8 at City Hall Plaza today.
Beth Adelson also posted photos:
If you haven’t already heard, on Saturday there will be protests across the country to repeal Proposition 8, California’s discriminatory law that bans gay men and lesbians from marriage. Boston’s protest takes place at City Hall beginning at 1:30 pm. Don’t sit idly by, show up and fight for the civil right of marriage for all. Read more
Bay Windows reports that MassResistance, which employs "documentary makers" who strip when being chased by police, couldn't collect enough signatures to get a 2010 ballot question on bringing back the 1913 law used to bar out-of-state gay and lesbian couples from marrying here.
The group needed roughly 33,000 signatures; it collected only 10,500.
The law was originally passed to block non-residents of different races from marrying in Massachusetts; Mitt Romney resurrected it in his battle against gay marriage.
Matt O'Malley, who twice ran for Boston City Council, reports he's leaving the sheriff's department to become political director for MassEquality.
Attorney General rules referendum on repealed 1913 laws good to go for 2010 ballot - well, provided backers can gather 33,297 valid signatures by Oct. 29.
Yes, it's the law that Mitt Romney used to keep non-locals from marrying within their gender, but it was originally passed to keep non-locals from marrying outside their race.
Bay Windows has the scoop on the overwhelming vote. With the state Senate also having voted to repeal, the measure now goes to Gov. Patrick.
Bay Windows has the scoop on the effort to repeal the law, which Mitt Romney used to block non-Massachusetts gays and lesbians from marrying in Massachusetts - decades after it was originally passed to prevent blacks and whites from out of state from marrying here.
Samfeasor took the same bar exam as that guy who is now suing the state Board of Bar Examiners because he refused to answer a question involving gay marriage, which he claims cost him the test. Samfeasor writes:
... In the afternoon part of the exam, there was a question about whether aliens have a right to counsel when they're considered enemy combatants. The answer, by law, is no. I disagree with that. I still wrote the law, I still applied the law to the facts and, y'know what? I passed.
That's just one example of the myriad ways that the law goes against my moral values, but I still take the damn test. ...
Stephen Dunne failed the state bar exam by about one point (out of 270) after refusing to answer a question about parenting rights in a gay marriage (which, natch, is legal in Massachusetts). Naturally, he is now suing the state Board of Bar Examiners (in federal district court), claiming the question infringed on his freedom of religion and rights to due process and equal protection. Oh, and the question also violates the interstate commerce provisions of the Constitution, he argues. He is acting as his own attorney.
Via Emily , who has some choice words for him.
Teddy Kokoros photographs this weird, spiky archy thing on a path between Arsenal Park and North Beacon Street and wonders what the deal is:
... I did not take a chance and walk through it for fear I would get sucked into some sort of vortex or that the archway was actually the teeth of a great beast waiting to clamp down on any unsuspecting people. ...
Sushiesque notes that the Metro today quotes an opponent of single-sex marriage as saying that one reason his side lost was because the other side had "deep coiffures." He must have said that because we know how good the Metro's copy desk is.
Almost every single time some out-of-the-ordinary big news story happens, boston.com seems to do its best to hide it from us with an ad (dating at least back to last year's Emerson scaffolding collapse). They've done it again today: State Legislature takes historic vote and refuses to put gay marriage on the ballot and what do boston.com visitors see on the home page?
If you squint really hard, way down at the bottom, you can see about half a headline about something that happened at the State House today.
OK, if you wait, the ad "rolls up," but really, editorial folks, don't you have any pull with the advertising department anymore?
Via Spatch, who exults:
LOWES IS OPENING BRAND NEW LOCATIONS ALL UP AND DOWN THE COAST! BRAND NEW STORES TO SHOP AT! HUZZAH HUZZAH HUZZAH!
oh yeah and also our state's proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage was totally defeated but that's just some picayune bit of news that goes on the front page under the BIG BIG BIG BIG BIG AD that says LOWES IS OPENING BRAND NEW LOCATIONS EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!1111 ...
Ryan Adams will be liveblogging what seems like the 75 millionth legislative session, which might finally decide whether voters get a ballot question on same-sex marriage. Bay Windows is live on location as well
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