GROUPS MUSTER TO FIGHT SSM IN MASS.: From the Boston Globe

Conservative groups from across the state and nation, outraged by a court decision allowing gay marriages, have begun devising a legal strategy to delay the effective date of the ruling until after lawmakers and
voters have acted on a proposed constitutional amendment that would define marriage as a heterosexual institution.

The bid to try to block the Supreme Judicial Court's 4-3 ruling took place as an unprecedented deluge of telephone calls and e-mails denouncing the decision flooded Beacon Hill offices, apparently the orchestrated
campaign of gay marriage opposition groups from coast to coast.

...Although they are still working out a strategy, Crews said the lawyers will probably explore submitting a motion to the Supreme Judicial Court seeking an indefinite delay, allowing the Legislature to vote on a
constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union between one man and one woman. The court has given the Legislature 180 days before its ruling takes effect, but amending the constitution would take at least
until 2006.

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