Mocking The Rules In Massachusetts

by Jeff Jacoby - July 10th, 2006 - Townhall.com

When the Massachusetts Legislature meets in joint session as a constitutional convention this week, the most notable item on its agenda will be a proposed amendment to ban same-sex marriage. A record-breaking 170,000 state residents have signed petitions to put such an amendment on the state ballot. But the Massachusetts Constitution mandates a detour: The measure must first win the support of at least 50 lawmakers in two consecutive legislative terms. Only then can it be submitted to the people. If the amendment gets past every hurdle, it will reach the ballot in November 2008.

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Lawmakers are not given a choice in the matter. The Constitution requires them to vote. If it didn't, initiatives opposed by the legislative leadership could always be aborted by simply refusing to bring them up for a vote. Instead of operating as a check and balance on the Legislature, Article 48 would then be a toothless sham. But for weeks now, same-sex marriage advocates have been telegraphing their intention to kill the marriage amendment through just such an unconstitutional ploy.

This is an example of the modern democratic party in action. With contempt for our nation's heritage and any semblance of respect for democracy, democrats have evolved to a party that believes winning is all that matters. Take an agenda item sought by any faction of the current party makeup, and the entire party will resort to any form of criminal or despicable behavior to assure victory.

There is a homosexual agenda to get special rights. It was encouraged by their success in stopping reasonable health rules designed to protect society from epidemics. Their reason was that the rules interfered with the homosexual community's promiscuous and multi partner orientation. The consequence has been the AIDS epidemic. However most in the homosexual community see their interference as a success, not a failure that resulted in human misery on a massive scale.

They now want the public to be forced to condone their lifestyle by granting them equality with the hetero sexual community. It is a campaign designed to validate their lifestyle choice. They do not care about anything but forcing the hetero sexual community to admit them to a "club" to which they are currently denied. The specific so called "rights" that they claim are harming them could be provided by many other methods that granting them the right to get married. However they reject these attempts because the rights are not what they seek. It is "respectability" for their life style that is the issue.

As such the democratic party is (all over the nation) stomping on the concept of democracy and using liberal judges and political power to shove this homsexual agenda down the throats of the American people. Watch Massachusetts if you want to know why so many people despise the modern liberal agenda, and are learning to despise democrats who (for reasons of power) support this liberal hypocrisy.