Bi-partisan group of 200 Mass. politicians endorse gay marriage

[Brian_Expat]

This is really stirring news.

http://www.datalounge.com/datalounge/news/record.html?record=21141

Former political heavyweights from Massachusetts, including (Republican) former Gov. William Weld, have urged state lawmakers to abide by the Supreme Judicial Court's landmark ruling calling for full equality in the state's marriage laws.

In a letter delivered to all 200 legislators on Monday, former Democratic Gov. Weld and former attorneys general Scott Harshbarger and James Shannon, also Democrats, declared that an alternative proposal to allow civil unions in Massachusetts would have no legal justification.

Take THAT, Governor Mitt "Prettyboy" Romney and Tom Finneran!

"We urge each of you as members of a coordinate branch of government sworn to uphold the constitution, and the rule of law, to use the remainder of the time period in the court's stay to take any and all steps possible to facilitate the orderly issuance of marriage licenses to qualified same-sex couples."

Yes, uphold your sworn duties, Romney!

Weld and the others have been critical of Republican Governor Mitt Romney and Attorney General Thomas Reilly who have clouded the issue by suggesting the court could be satisfied with an alternative civil unions bill. Tribe says there is no justification for such a point of view.

So gay DUers, start making those marriage plans. Massachusetts will welcome you by June as equals under the law! :)