WOULD CIVIL UNIONS SATISFY THE MA COURT? From the Boston Globe

Under pressure to respond to the Supreme Judicial Court's decision on gay marriage, Governor Mitt Romney and a top House lawmaker said yesterday that they believe the justices would be satisfied if lawmakers craft
a civil union statute that grants many of the benefits of marriage but does not legally sanction same-sex marriage.

Romney and state Representative Eugene L. O'Flaherty, the House chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, said separately that they do not support legislation to allow gays to marry and believe the justices signaled that a parallel system of civil unions for gays would meet state constitutional muster. ...

Outside legal specialists, including Laurence H. Tribe, professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School, sharply dismissed any notion that the court was leaving Romney or the Legislature any option other than to accept gay marriage and implement its ruling.

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