Kudos to the Mass Legislative leadership and the lobbyists

[jwg]

Ban on gay marriage defeated, 45 to 151

Great news; no ugly battle at the polls next year. Thanks to the great work by Mass Equality, The Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, and Glad, among other organizations and individuals that helped convince a number of legislators to vote on the side of justice and equality.

Comments

Re: similar situation in the Gt White North

[phornax.livejournal.com]

Chris - I don't believe I ever mentioned this before, by my old college roommate Jim was ordained in your church and is now leading a flock in Cow Head, Newfoundland.

He recently came out (to me and other college buds, at least) and says that even these remote fishing villages are fine with "the gays."

Re: similar situation in the Gt White North

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

you know, we say that there may be six degrees of separation, but among the subset of {all Anglicans} it's three, tops.

I've never met Jim (my goodness, jim and astroboy in the same room - potent combination), but have contact with him a couple of ways through Integrity, the Anglican/Episcopal GLBT group. He was one of the very earliest to sign on to an open letter to churchy types that I'm keeping the singature database for , and he's also in my newsletter database.

I've actually driven through Cow Head - it's amidst Gros Morne national park on the west coast of Newfoundland - but as I was trying to catch the afternoon ferry across the straights of Belle Isle that day, I didn't stop. And this was years and years ago (another dead wench!)

I'm not identifying your friend in this public space, but I'm chris dot ambidge at utoronto dot ca if you wish to go the PVT EMAIL route