Massachusetts Tramples state Constitution, Doesn’t allow a Vote on Gay Marriage
Massachusetts legislatures today voted against putting a gay marriage ban amendment on the ballet in ’08. The bigger issue here to me is the way that the legislature with help from the governor, Deval Patrick, have shown complete disdain for the state constitution.
A group was able to gather 140,000 signatures in favor of the amendment, this should have been more than enough to have the issue go to the voters. At first it looked as though this would happen, however the governor started applying immense pressure and even bribed members with the promise of government hack jobs in return for their votes, and in some cases to have the legislators accept the jobs and step down before the vote. This group did everything according to the state constitution to have an amendment voted on and the legislators turned their backs on the constitution.
You can read more about that here, and here.
Governor Patrick was able to successfully delay the vote until he was able to get the vote he wanted. He was quoted as saying he wanted the vote to go the right way. In other words, to hell with what the people wanted, it only mattered what he wanted. Why even have a vote if the fix is in?
Regardless of which side of the issue you are on you should be afraid at the way the state constitution was ripped up and thrown away, Next time you may be on the other side of the issue when the constitution was diregarded in such a bold and self righteous way.
America's Watchtower 
I have a million things I need to post on and this is on my list. My friend who worked so hard on this called another friend of mine and broke the news to me on thursday.
It is completely disgraceful and politics at its worst. As you so wisely point out, no matter which side you are on its a travesty that the state constitution and the will of the people was trampled on.
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This was definetly a travesty perpetrated on Ma. residents. The way their constituion was violated. On Gov. Patrick’s first day in office he asked the legislature not to vote on this issue, breaking his promise of the day before when he was sworn in to uphold the constitution.
In a way Ma. voters deserve this though, as while they will complain for a while when the next election rolls around they will end up voting for the same type of people, they always do.
Hopefully this will finally be the wake up call they have desperately needed.
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