Gay marriage in MA: countdown 31 days

The first gay marriages are scheduled to happen in Massachusetts on May 17, and Governor Mitt Romney is pissing boiling water. He asked the Legislature to delay the process and the Senate President Robert E. Travaglini told him to bugger off.

Romney has been at it for a while, and this is getting to be really pathetic. He is arguing that gay marriages should be delayed for more than 2 years so that if in November 2006 a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage wins in a referendum they won't have the problem of trying to decide what to do about the gay marriages that have already taken place. Hey, ever thought of not trying to push that amendment so that you won't that that problem? Didn't think so. Concerned that the amendment might not pass once voters see that gay marriages have happened and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts did not fall apart? God forbid...

Besides, face it, man, in order for the amendment to even be put to the referendum the next Legislature must approve it. What makes you so sure that it will? The next Legislature isn't even elected yet.

In another article Romney is wondering how we will define the state residency for the purpose of this law. '"I spent over $100,000 fighting for the right to say that I resided in Massachusetts," said Romney, who lived in Utah before running for governor. ' Gee, maybe actually residing in Massachusetts would have helped? I've moved to MA twice and never had to spend big money on claiming MA residency, and neither had the other 6 million or so MA residents. So maybe it's only a problem for out-of-state prospective governors who are trying to claim MA residency while living in Utah? Do you see many of those coming into state for the purpose of marrying a person of the same sex?

How did we elect this critter for governor (I had no part in it)? Was the other critter even worse?