'I don't know how it happened!'

[kweerwolf]

Joseph Kennedy of Saugus, a self-described progressive with two close gay family members, got the shock of his life when he received a phone message from MassEquality Jan. 3 telling him that his name appeared on a petition to pass a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage.

“I called back MassEquality and I was livid. I am a progressive Democrat. I am very much for equal rights. Keep the state out of the church and out of the bedroom,” said Kennedy, 39. After the Goodridge decision went into effect in 2004 Kennedy even went online and became an officially ordained minister with the Universal Life Church, which performs online quickie ordinations, so he could marry either of his gay family members if they chose to marry.

After speaking with MassEquality, which has been calling through a list of people who signed both the marriage petition and a petition to allow grocery stories to sell wine, Kennedy realized that he had been deceived by a petition signature gatherer he had met about two months ago at Shaws supermarket in Saugus. He said the petition gatherer, a young woman, first asked if he would sign a petition to permit the sale of beer and wine in supermarkets. He agreed, and then she asked if he would sign a second petition.

“They said the other one was in favor of giving equal rights to men and women and is for gay marriage, and I said fine,” said Kennedy.

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[xchrom]

1. i got the same message --

push 1 if you believe marriage should be between ONE man and ONE woman...

yeah -- gay rights is about polygamy.

maybe they should try utah.

[MuseRider]

2. That is the same trick

that Phelps used here to gather names to push his ordinance here. Lovely. Lots of people took their names off once they found out what it was but enough people did not or never heard that they were deceived so that we ended up having to fight it.