{"id":2413,"date":"2007-06-23T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2007-06-24T01:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/gay-marriage%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-alive\/"},"modified":"2007-06-23T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2007-06-24T01:14:12","slug":"gay-marriage%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/gay-marriage%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Gay Marriage\u201d \u2013 It\u2019s Alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/MattBarber\/2007\/06\/22\/%e2%80%9cgay_marriage%e2%80%9d_%e2%80%93_it%e2%80%99s_alive!\">Townhall.com<\/a> | Matt Barber | June 22, 2007<\/p>\n<p>With its 2003 Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court circumvented the constitutional process and arbitrarily imposed \u201csame-sex marriage\u201d on the people of Massachusetts in what amounted to a brazen and contemptuous act of judicial activism. Now members of the liberal Massachusetts state legislature have surrendered to the demands of the militant homosexual lobby and have betrayed both the citizens of Massachusetts and the democratic process by preventing voters from weighing in on this crucial issue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prior to Goodridge, the concept of a man \u201cmarrying\u201d a man or a woman \u201cmarrying\u201d a woman was widely and properly considered preposterous. However, with their decision in Goodridge, four of the court\u2019s seven social mad scientists have zapped artificial life into a cultural \u201cgay-marriage\u201d Frankenstein monster. And that radical and bizarre new concept has been terrorizing the countryside every since. <\/p>\n<p>After the Massachusetts Supreme Court \u2014 through judicial fiat \u2014 made Massachusetts the only state to recognize \u201csame-sex marriage\u201d by miraculously divining that the framers of the state constitution really intended that Patrick Henry could marry Henry Patrick, many in Massachusetts \u2014 embarrassed by the court\u2019s unprecedented leftist extremism \u2014 felt that their state had become a laughingstock and initiated the constitutional process in an effort to undo this court forced insanity. <\/p>\n<p>. . . <a href=\"http:\/\/www.townhall.com\/columnists\/MattBarber\/2007\/06\/22\/%e2%80%9cgay_marriage%e2%80%9d_%e2%80%93_it%e2%80%99s_alive!\">more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townhall.com | Matt Barber | June 22, 2007 With its 2003 Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court circumvented the constitutional process and arbitrarily imposed \u201csame-sex marriage\u201d on the people of Massachusetts in what amounted to a brazen and contemptuous act of judicial activism. Now members of the liberal Massachusetts &#8230; <a title=\"&#8220;Gay Marriage\u201d \u2013 It\u2019s Alive!\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/gay-marriage%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-it%e2%80%99s-alive\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8220;Gay Marriage\u201d \u2013 It\u2019s Alive!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gay-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}