Meanwhile....

Six months ago, when the SJC's gay marriage decision first came down, Governor Romney gritted his pearly whites and said that the law must be upheld even if we disagree with it.
Three months ago he said he'd be open to a Vermont style civil union law despite the fact that the SJC's finding was in favor of full marriage rights.
Now today, Romney is shilling a superfluous amendment to the state constitution enshrining marriage as the union of "one man and one woman".
For Romney this slow timorous climb-down still represents progress given the fact that he himself is the descendent of noted polygamists.
And in just three more months at the rate he is going Romney is be no doubt advocating "humane deportation"
of all queers...or maybe just the ones who request marriage licenses.
Who knows, only Mitt's pollster knows for sure what his policy will be.
For such is the power of a few hampers full of irate letters from out of state snake handlers and born again voodoo wowsers.
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But then, Mitt is getting help from the ever solicitous democratic leadership of the House and Senate. Finneran and Travaglini are on the verge of permitting a divisive wedge issue on the 2006 ballot (when incidentally the Kolobian Viceroy is up for re-election) so they can escape being called "homo-lovers" by Mitt's oh so scary collection of state legislature candidates come the fall.
No doubt the current sorry situation will play big in the N.H. primary four years hence when it comes time for the Man from Kolob to seek out new subjects.
Assuming the amendment passes and it goes on the ballot, we can look forward to obscene ana irrational campaign adverts denouncing gay marriage in the crudest most demagogic terms possible-all paid for with reams of out of state monies.
Given the sorry and soul-degrading spectacle to come, are we all sure that given Seth and Perry a marriage license is such an intolerable provocation??