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This issue was DU discussed earlier when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) agreed in February 2005 to hear the appeal filed by The Thomas More Law Center on behalf of C. Joseph Doyle, the executive director of the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=158&topic_id=3099There are extensive hyperlinks to assist further understanding of this issue at that above DU thread.
And, thanks, dwickham, for posting, here, the date of the oral arguments in this matter b4 the SJC.
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Know who is working AGAINST same-sex marriage in the halls of our statehouse and elsewhere:
L to R,
(1) MA Representative Philip Travis (.pdf format, Adobe Reader necessary), Democrat, of Rehoboth, MA, who co-sponsored the 2004 anti-gay amendment;
(2) MA Representative Mark J. Carron, Democrat, of Southbridge, MA, who votes anti-gay (anything);
(3) Daniel Avila who is a paid lobbyist against gays for the Massachusetts Catholic Conference at the statehouse and elsewhere; and
(4) "Reverend" Ron Crews, Republican, of Ashland, MA, a fundamentalist preacher, a carpet-bagger from Georgia who is a paid lobbyist for the "Massachusetts Family Institute" (MFI) a hate-mongering and gay-bashing religion-into-law fundamentalist evangelical organization and as former president of "Massachusetts Family Institute" filed an amicus brief against same-sex marriage and against same-sex civil unions with the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in the Goodridge case, who as a Georgia state representative pushed for Creationism being taught in Georgia public schools and redefinition of marriage as only for one man and one woman and public school abstinence-only sex education, and who recently ran (quite) unsuccessfully against incumbent U.S. Representative James McGovern, D, Worcester
See also: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/02/12/how_legislators_voted_on_travis_gay_marriage_amendment/
(BosGlobe, 3/29/04, How State Legislators Voted on Gay Marriage Amendment, Massachusetts Constitutional Convention 2004)
(as last visited, Monday, April 25, 2005)
___________________________________________________________________ The Roman Catholic Church (in Massachusetts) is in our courts fighting against same-sex marriage, it's lobbying in the statehouse and elsewhere to prohibit same-sex marriage, and its newspaper, The Pilot, rants against same-sex marriage. And, the Roman Catholic Church is joining forces with other radical rightwing religion-into-law organizations including working elbow-to-elbow with the radical Ron Crews and other rightwingers who bash and hate gays. Remember this, please.
Know who is working AGAINST your civil rights, those of your neighbors, and of your relatives.
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