Multiple choice

How will Massachusetts jurists react to another "defined class"? | Andrée Seu

NEXT TIME I GET MARRIED IT'S GOING TO BE TO two people. I haven't checked out the Pennsylvania Constitution on that, but there's nothing in the Massachusetts Constitution to prevent it. I know that because there's nothing in the Massachusetts Constitution to prevent the marriage of two men or two women, and mine is just the next natural step. My plans assume that all state constitutions are pretty much the same, but if I have to I'll relocate to the land of William Bradford—may he not turn in his grave.

Four justices on a seven-member bench in Boston blew off a thousand generations of tradition like so much talcum powder. (Stupid ancestors, what did they know? "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you" —Job 12:2.) Rejecting the wimpy Vermont compromise that countenanced second-class "civil unions," with unimpeachable logic they one-upped their neighbor to the north: "The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal," and "For no rational reason the marriage laws of the commonwealth discriminate against a defined class."