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- 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...
- 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...