NEWS: "Gay marriage backlash Not Felt in Massacusetts"!!!!

[Bluebear]

BOSTON - The national Election Day backlash against gay marriage never reached the state blamed for triggering it: Every Massachusetts lawmaker on the ballot who supported gay rights won another term in the Legislature.

The election outcome, combined with the ascendancy of a new state House speaker who supports gay rights, has left in doubt the fate of a proposed constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in Massachusetts.

The amendment, which would also legalize civil unions, won first-round approval from lawmakers earlier this year. It must be approved again by the newly elected 200-member Legislature before it can be submitted to the voters for ratification in November 2006.

"I think we are in a far, far better position than ever before," said Josh Friedes, spokesman for the Massachusetts Freedom to Marry Coalition. "The electorate showed that it was incredibly tolerant."

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041104/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage_massachusetts_1

[bicentennial_baby]

1. I love my state

I really do. :)

[Bluebear]

2. New England, all blue. Come on up, folks.

We welcome you.

[Bluebear]

3. Sometimes I think we should saw off and become our own island

[Bluebear]

4. delete

[Kathy in Cambridge]

5. Time to Secede

I'm sick of paying for the red states anyway.

[Bluebear]

6. Sign me up.