ANOTHER WIN FOR MARRIAGE, A BUSY TIME FOR FIC
July 27th, 2006 by Peter
So even the courts follow election returns. In an apparent anti-Goodridge legal trend, a state court in Washington became the sixth this month to rule against same-sex “marriage:”
OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington Supreme Court narrowly upheld the state’s ban on gay marriage Wednesday, dealing the gay rights movement its second major defeat in less than a month in another liberal-leaning state that was regarded as a promising battleground…
In a 5-4 decision, a sharply divided Washington court said lawmakers have the power to restrict marriage to a man and a woman, and it left intact the state’s 1998 Defense of Marriage Act.
“Narrowly upheld” and “sharply divided” are how the media describes one-vote victories for traditional marriage. The Massachusetts decision legalizing same-sex “marriage” in that state was also a one-vote decision, but you would almost never know it from the reporting.
PROVINCETOWN, Mass. — Heterosexuals in this overwhelmingly gay resort town on the tip of Cape Cod are complaining that the oppressed have become the oppressors.
Straight people say they have been taunted as “breeders.” One woman who signed a petition against gay marriage says she was berated as a bigot by a gay man, and another complained that dog feces were left next to her car…
Tensions boiled over this year after the names and addresses of nearly 5,000 Massachusetts residents – 43 of them from Provincetown – who signed a petition seeking a constitutional amendment against gay marriage were published on the knowthyneighbor website.
Earlier this month, a gay man got into a shouting match at a grocery store with a straight woman, calling her a bigot for signing the petition.
At least the “Provincetown Provocation” is being covered by the local press. Here in Connecticut, a pro same-sex “marriage” supporter was prosecuted for making a death threat against the Catholic Church’s head lobbyist. We have yet to see a word about it in the secular print media.
On a housekeeping note, blogging will be light next week due to other pressing FIC projects. If you see something during next week’s hiatus that you think deserves mention on this site, e-mail it to me at pwolfgang@ctfamily.org.
