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The left at the altar.(Culture Watch)
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WHAT has the high court of Massachusetts wrought? Don’t look to the Democratic presidential candidates for guidance. On the day that a bare majority of the court declared that marriage licenses must be given to same-sex couples, Howard Dean issued a statement so mealy-mouthed and evasive that it did not even include the word “marriage.” He suggested that the court had acted in the spirit of the Vermont supreme court, which in 1999 forced the state legislature to create civil unions for homosexual couples. “One way or another,” said the supposedly straight-shooting governor, “the state should afford same-sex couples equal treatment under law in areas such as health insurance, hospital visitation and inheritance rights.” Dean went on to warn that some people would “try to use the decision today to divide Americans.” John Kerry’s statement also referred to hospital… |
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