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Marry in Massachusetts: 12/01/2014 - 01/01/2015
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Thursday, December 18, 2014. Gone with the obituary. This appears at my non-political blog, Harrumph! As it is marriage related, it seems apt here too. A college chum made his family vanish in his self-written obit. A wife and four daughters vanished in his detailed recap of life and kin. It’s not my thought to demean any religion’s dogma or processes. Yet from a post written at the time of the declaration-of-nullity proceeding. While I still see it very much as a game and a fund raiser, annulment is not...
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Marry in Massachusetts: 1st Amendment Games in Indiana
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Tuesday, March 31, 2015. 1st Amendment Games in Indiana. Yes, indeed, we can be too clever for our own ends. We're seeing it now in Indiana, where the poorly drafted and worse defined Religious Freedom Restoration Act has blown up. The Republican legislature should be embarrassed but is not. The Republican Gov. Mike Pence (a POTUS hopeful) should claw back the openly discriminatory law, but won't. On today's Left Ahead show. With same-sex marriage battle lost — waiting only for the SCOTUS cymbal cl...
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Marry in Massachusetts: SCOTUS finds SSM right
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Friday, June 26, 2015. SCOTUS finds SSM right. Cue the songs of praise.and relief, as the SCOTUS rules five-to-four that same-sex marriage is a right. (Good immediate and obviously prepared NYT coverage here. And some analysis at Yahoo news here. It's getting to be about time to shut down this marriage-equality blog.]. I'll pour through the pro and con decisions. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Subscribe To This Blog. Write Civilly (click pic for policy).
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Marry in Massachusetts: 02/01/2015 - 03/01/2015
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Sunday, February 22, 2015. Hillary Hovers and Hedges. Hillary Clinton will surely have a states-rights problem come the campaign for Prez. The clearest evidence of that is in — of all subjects — same-sex marriage. You can check for yourself. Start with last June's interview by Terry Gross on NPR. While Gross fairly demanded that Clinton admit she'd been wrong on marriage equality, only changing for expedience, Clinton would have none of it. Much has been made of her continuing defensive posture. There is...
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Marry in Massachusetts: Aw, do you need some attention, Roy Moore?
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Monday, February 09, 2015. Aw, do you need some attention, Roy Moore? Looking for the dummies and crazies, we invariably find them in the same states — Idaho, Utah, and of course the likes of Mississippi and Alabama. The once and now again Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Stewart Moore is at it and as loony as ever. He ordered judges not to issue licenses to gay couples, in defiance of federal court rulings. If you really can't believe his arrogance and stupidity, start with his Wikipedia article.
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Marry in Massachusetts: Clergical Folklore
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004. As a non-Roman Catholic, I was stunned by the annulment petition a friend had his diocese send me as a witness. Later when I met with a priest, I was a bit amused by his take on Massachusetts marriage history. He pored over the questions and answers with what seemed more than professional interest. When he found that I was not RC, he happily interpreted the process, and explained that different bishoprics used their own, generally shorter, forms. He is an investigator fo...While...
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Marry in Massachusetts: Gone with the obituary
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Thursday, December 18, 2014. Gone with the obituary. This appears at my non-political blog, Harrumph! As it is marriage related, it seems apt here too. A college chum made his family vanish in his self-written obit. A wife and four daughters vanished in his detailed recap of life and kin. It’s not my thought to demean any religion’s dogma or processes. Yet from a post written at the time of the declaration-of-nullity proceeding. While I still see it very much as a game and a fund raiser, annulment is not...
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Marry in Massachusetts: 05/01/2015 - 06/01/2015
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Monday, May 25, 2015. Irish Gay Marriages by Fall. We can forgive a short pun period following the Irish plebiscite putting marriage equality in the constitution. I've heard the likes of sods on the auld sod. I do not hear anti-gay meanness, just spill-over giddiness. Putting that into reality, likely by September, seems to require. President Michael D. HIggins signing the Marriage Equality Bill into law. Civil forms and the resulting ceremonies will allow couples to be h usband and wife. In that very Ca...
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Marry in Massachusetts: Irish Gay Marriages by Fall
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Monday, May 25, 2015. Irish Gay Marriages by Fall. We can forgive a short pun period following the Irish plebiscite putting marriage equality in the constitution. I've heard the likes of sods on the auld sod. I do not hear anti-gay meanness, just spill-over giddiness. Putting that into reality, likely by September, seems to require. President Michael D. HIggins signing the Marriage Equality Bill into law. Civil forms and the resulting ceremonies will allow couples to be h usband and wife. In that very Ca...
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Creepy-chusetts, Strange-chusetts: January 2011
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Creepychusetts has moved to ". The Reversed View of Massachusetts "! Wednesday, January 26, 2011. Cabot Farms, Somerville. It's damn cold, cold, cold! Last year was the first Massachusetts winter for me, and I was thinking it's manageable. Ughhh, I was duped. My arms are swelling like Popeye from snow shoveling. I love my Bean Boots, but am getting bored with wearing the same pair day after day. I need somewhere to schmooze like a lethargic lizard to escape from the cold and snow. Actually, it does look ...
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