Maneuvering in Mass.
After the Massachusetts high court allowed a gay marriage-banning ballot initiative to move forward, we started getting that sinking feeling. Especially because it was looking like the anti-gay-marriage forces had the votes necessary to get the ball rolling. (The initiative would have to get votes from a quarter of the state legislators in two consecutive sessions before it’d be put to a vote in a general election.) After dueling rallies outside the statehouse, the legislature opted to put the vote off until November, allowing gays a few more months to demonstrate how not-scary they are.
Proposed Massachusetts marriage ban dead until November [The Advocate]
