For Once in Awhile

[browngirl]

The news is good.

Forty years after Loving vs Virginia, he anti-same-sex-marriage bill was defeated.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/06/legislators_vot_1.html

I'm just writing this the way I'd paste a newspaper article into a paper journal; I don't really have any beautifully insigntful commentary. I'm just surprised, relieved, and glad. And guardedly hopeful. Maybe, in a few years, after Massacusetts society fails to crumble, other states will... well, maybe, and maybe not. But maybe. .

Comments

[gingicat]

My letter got in, too! *bounces and is silly* (link in my LJ)

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Your letter *ruled*!

As Calvin Coolidge put it:

[rubynye.livejournal.com]

"We do not submit the precious rights of the people to the hazard of a prejudiced and irresponsible political determination, but preserve and protect them by an independent and impartial judicial determination. We do not expose the rights of the weak to the danger of being overcome in the public forum by popular uproar, but protect them in the sanctity of the courtroom, where the still, small voice will not fail to be heard. Any attempt to change this method of procedure is an attempt to put the people again in jeopardy of the impositions and the tyrannies from which the first Continental Congress sought to deliver them. The only position that Americans can take is that they are against all despotism whether it emanate from a monarch, from a parliament, or from a mob."