Honestly, I'm not terribly worried about the Defense of Marriage Amendment in Massachusetts

Yeah, sure, the conservatives here are trying to get a constitutional amendment through to define marriage in Massachusetts as "one man and one woman."

But, y'see. . . .

The state supreme court gave the Lege 180 days to get this thing up and running and make it possible for same sex marriages to happen.

So, six months from now, gays will start getting married. That will be May. Damn, it's going to be a BITCH reserving function space in June. . . but, yeah, okay.

In that time, it is possible that the Massachussets Legislature will get the amendment through. Both houses. Not overly likely, but possible.

Once that happens, they'll have to wait.

For an election.

May, June, July, August, September, and November, same sex couples will be getting married. By the time that the next election rolls around, most everybody in the commonwealth will have at least one same-sex air of friends who are married.

At that point, the NEXT session of the legislature will have to vote on the amendment. And at that point, a real big percentage of the electorate will take this as a PERSONAL attack on THEIR FRIENDS. Which, of course, it is.

It's still possible that both houses of the lege will pass it again at that point, although vanishingly unlikely. But, at that point, it has to go to the people, and get a majority vote of the general population at the NEXT election.

People will, at that point, have been having same sex marriages for like two years. People will be more or less used to it by that point.

I'm not real worried.