Friday, March 31, 2006

Mass Media

I'm in Cambridge for the Women, Action and the Media conference that starts today.

And while the place seems friendly enough, Massachusetts apparently won't put out the welcome mat to out-ot-state gay couples wanting to marry in the Bay state. What exactly is Boston worried about? Marauding hordes of gay couples in love descending on the state demanding legal matrimony? Frightening! (The case applied to five couples from states where same-sax marriage isn't available.) I know Gov. Romney wants to run for prez in 2008, but gays and those who support gay rights are a base of money and support too. Although certainly not for him.

But with the whiff of any kind of national spotlight, this commonsense, pioneering ruling allowing gays to marry is now being chipped away in the face of the religious-right cabal who are running this country's republican party.

You can read the local report in the Boston Globe.

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