Eugene O'Flaherty sick of marriage debate

Bay Windows reports this week that state Rep. Eugene O'Flaherty says he will not support the current effort to amend the state constitution to ban civil marriage rights of same-sex couples:

"I want to try to dispose of this issue," he says. "It's occupied the last three years of my life; a lot of time, a lot of energy and I'd like to apply that to healthcare. I'd like to apply that to some of the other issues that we have in front of us, that as far as I'm concerned, are much more important to our constituents at this point."

O'Flaherty, who is House chair of the legislature's Joint Committee on the Judiciary, says "my recommendation to my members would be that that legislation ought not to pass . . ."