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HEY, MY REGISTER <\/em>COLUMN ON THE MASSACHUSETTS SSM DECISION IS ONLINE!<\/strong> I didn\u2019t know that. (I note they declined to use my draft headline, \u201cFrom the State That Brought You Harvard.\u201d)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not every day a court gets to stand against all of recorded history. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s what the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did Nov. 18 when, in Goodridge v. Department of Health<\/em>, it ruled that marriage in Massachusetts is no longer the union of a man and a woman but the union of \u201ctwo persons.\u201d The court argued that forbidding a man to marry another man constituted unlawful and irrational sex discrimination.<\/p>\n

\u2026The Massachusetts court is saying to citizens, \u201cYou all go ahead and vote for the laws. Then we\u2019ll tell you what you really voted for. Don\u2019t expect it to look much like what you thought you agreed to.\u201d The rule of law requires that laws be predictable and stable\u2013that laws not be yanked out from under citizens like a carpet in a Tom and Jerry cartoon. The Massachusetts court (like the Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade<\/em>) has ignored this principle.<\/p>\n

The funny thing is, this bait-and-switch approach to judging may be turned against the Goodridge <\/em>decision itself in the future. <\/p>\n

\u2026Marriage\u2013civil marriage, not just sacramental marriage\u2013is essentially a procreative union in two ways. <\/p>\n

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HEY, MY REGISTER COLUMN ON THE MASSACHUSETTS SSM DECISION IS ONLINE! I didn\u2019t know that. (I note they declined to use my draft headline, \u201cFrom the State That Brought You Harvard.\u201d) It\u2019s not every day a court gets to stand against all of recorded history. That\u2019s what the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did Nov. 18 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nEve Tushnet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"HEY, MY REGISTER COLUMN ON THE MASSACHUSETTS SSM DECISION IS ONLINE! I didn't know that. 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