DESPERATE MEASURES

In Massachusetts, the anti-marriage-equality forces seem to have given up on a state constitutional amendment to ban gays from marrying (while retaining civil unions) in favor of a 2008 referendum banning marriages for gays (while ignoring the civil union option). I’m not sure I understand their logic. I guess the compromise on civil unions doesn’t satisfy their base; and they’d rather lose outright than endorse civil unions in the state constitution. Meanwhile, marriages for gay couples are now part of the fabric of the state’s life, and no one seems to have noticed the slightest difference. In Washington state, the word is that a court ruling could come down very soon.