What are massachusetts politicians opinions on gay marriage
20 years ago, same-sex marriage in Massachusetts opened a door for LGBTQ rights nationwide
Bonauto, who has been an attorney with GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, or GLAD, since 1990, said she was a “mess” of emotions at her clients’ wedding and started crying before the ceremony even started. But the most powerful moment, she recalled, came when the minister officially married the couple.
“In that packed church that day, when the minister said, ‘By the power vested in me by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts’ — those are words no one had heard before — the place went wild,” Bonauto told NBC News. “I felt chills. I continue to feel chills when I hear that, because that is just such a statement of belonging in this society. It’s not the only one, but boy, it was certainly a remark of non-belonging to be excluded from marriage.”
Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall wrote in the 4-3 majority opinion that paved the way for Compton and Wilson’s wedding, that marriage is “a vital social institution” that “imposes weighty legal, financial, and social obligations.”
“The question before us is whether, consistent with the Massachusetts Constitution, the Commonwealth may deny the
Mitt Romney reaffirms opposition to gay marriage
— -- Mitt Romney reaffirmed his view that marriage is between "a man and a woman," offering a clear contrast to President Obama who announced earlier today that he now backs the right of male lover couples to marry.
Speaking to reporters after a campaign event in Oklahoma Capital, Romney said his position on same sex marriage is unchanged despite Obama's shift on the issue.
"I have the same view on marriage that I had when I was governor. I believe marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman," Romney said. "I have the same view I've had since, skillfully, running for office."
Romney's comments come just hours after Obama told ABC News he now backs the right of same sex couples to marry. At a campaign event in Colorado earlier Wednesday, Romney had declined to comment on the president's alter when questioned about the news by reporters.
"Not on the rope line," he told Politico's Reid Epstein.
Romney did address the topic of same sex marriage in a local television interview earlier Wednesday. Asked by Fox affiliate KDVR-TV about a bill that would have allowed
Reflecting on 20 years of marriage equality in Massachusetts
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On the 20th anniversary of the Goodridge judgment, we talk with Hillary Goodridge, one of the direct plaintiffs in the court case that created marriage equality in Massachusetts, as well as Margaret Marshall, the former Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court chief justice who wrote the opinion in the Goodridge case.
Three Massachusetts LGBT leaders also join us: Alejandra St. Guillen, who ran for Boston City Council as an out same-sex attracted woman in 2019, and Arline Isaacson and Gary Daffin, who were both co-chairs of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political caucus at the period of the court battle.
In the first segment of the show, Goodridge discusses how she her ex-wife Julie, became the Goodridges and their experiences at the time.
Margaret Marshall speaks to Radio Boston in the second segment of the show and discusses her notion she wrote for the Goodridge case 20 years after the fact. Here are some major interview moments:
Interview Highlights
On the passing of 20 years since the Marshall wrote the opinion:
"It feels in so
Ten years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized lgbtq+ marriage nationwide and three years after it overturned Roe v. Wade, Gov. Maura Healey said both topics are "non-negotiable" in Massachusetts and vowed to protect them.
On the 10th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationally, one of the nation's most prominent gay politicians, Healey, was asked if she thought that right was secure in the tackle of a movement among some Republican lawmakers at the state level to ask the court to reverse its position, a possibility mentioned by conservative Justices Thomas and Alito.
"Non-issue here in Massachusetts"
"It's a non-issue here in Massachusetts," she said. "Marriage is marriage, whether you're same-sex attracted or not, and that's the law here. It's going to continue to be that way."
Healey said the same about abortion rights in Massachusetts.
"This is the third anniversary of the Supreme Court's choice overturning Roe v. Wade, and I'll also just say that abortion rights, abortion access, access to reproductive health care, is non-negotiable. In Massachusetts, we're going to continue to protect that right, carry on to protect patients, providers an
Raleigh, N.C. – As time passes since the legalization of same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, more voters are coming to accept it. Twice as many (60%) believe it should be legal as illegal (30%). That is up from 59-33 when PPP last polled the state in June, with a brief movement toward it from Democrats, Republicans, and independents alike. Indeed, when asked about the impact of its legalization on their lives, two-thirds of voters say it has had no impact at all, 18% say it has had a positive one, and only 15% a negative one. At 73%, Republicans are most likely to declare it has not affected them, united by 72% of independents and 59% of Democrats. A third of Democrats also say lgbtq+ marriage being legal has had a positive impact on them.
Massachusetts voters are a small playfully scornful of Texas. 13% reflect that state should secede from the union, while only 5% think Massachusetts itself should. At 15%, Democrats are most likely to think Texas should leave the land and form its own, followed by 13% of independents and only 8% of Republicans. At 3%, GOP voters are also least likely to contemplate their own express should declare its i