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Thursday, February 05, 2004

"SEPARATE IS SELDOM, IF EVER, EQUAL"

From yesterday's ruling by the Mass. Supreme Judicial Court on gay marriage:

"The history of our nation has demonstrated that separate is seldom, if ever, equal. . . .

The bill's absolute prohibition of the use of the word "marriage" by "spouses" who are the same sex is more than semantic. The dissimilitude between the terms "civil marriage" and "civil union" is not innocuous; it is a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual, couples to second-class status. . . "

I love this: the upshot of the ruling is that gay marriages begin in Massachusetts on May 17, the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.

Sidenote: Mass. boy John Kerry opposes gay marriage.

I really wish I had time to parse this more with yall--there's so much here, and one of my side journalistic obsessions has become the recent cultural history of integration--but I'm in the last 48+ hours of editing.

Soon come...

In other news, Dean may quit if he doesn't win Wisconsin. Is this a way to rally depressed Deaniacs or an admission of collapse? Probably both.

Another sidenote: Wisconsin has often been the reversal point for insurgent candidacies. In '88, when Jesse Jackson was stomping all candidates after the early caucuses and primaries, Dem centrist operatives ganged up on him in Wisconsin, while Ed Koch revived the famous Hymietown thang. He never recovered.

In the end, Jackson finished a distant second to the short guy with the uni-brow from-where?-Massachusetts.

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