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by Draloth
Fri Dec 05, 2003 12:02 am
Forum: Umlaut House
Topic: Get Government Out Of Marriage
Replies: 33
Views: 1156

The idea that same sex couples are unfit parents was raised by the defendant - the Department of Public Health - and rejected by the Court rather soundly. The department has offered no evidence that forbidding marriage to people of the same sex will increase the number of couples choosing to enter i...
by Draloth
Wed Dec 03, 2003 5:01 pm
Forum: Umlaut House
Topic: Get Government Out Of Marriage
Replies: 33
Views: 1156

New Law on the Subject

If you haven't read it yet, check out the new Mass. Supreme Court ruling: http://www.socialaw.com/sjcslip/sjcNov03c.html . In this they said: "We construe civil marriage to mean the voluntary union of two persons as spouses, to the exclusion of all others." Quite a divergance from the standard today...