Massachusetts court rules ban on gay marriage unconstitutional:
In a paper statement he released immediately after the ruling was released, Romney left the door open for some other way of recognizing same-sex couples.
“Of course,” he said, “we must provide basic civil rights and appropriate benefits to nontraditional couples, but marriage is a special institution that should be reserved for a man and a woman.”
They say that a lot, those assorted politicians. It’s almost a rote memorization sort of thing. But they very rarely offer a compelling or intellectually-valid reason WHY. And here’s a hint: “because the Bible (God, the Pope, Mohammed, L. Ron Hubbard, etc.) says so” is NEVER an intellectually-valid reason — nor a relevant one — when the issue is American public policy…
Like Rick, I couldn’t give a rat’s ass what you want to call my relationship with Mark — marriage, domestic partnership, living in sin, godless sodomy, whatever. But when you tell me that it’s somehow less important, or less worthy of equal protection under the law, simply because both of us possess Y chromosomes, you’d better be prepared to defend your logic with something stronger than some vague, irrelevant, and possibly erroneous religious argument…
And something a little more clever than “that’s the way it’s always been” would be refreshing too…