If a republic is a government ruled by law and the laws are made by representatives elected by the citizens, then  after May 16th, 2004 we can no longer say that  the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a republic. This is the date by which the Supreme Judicial Court (SJC), under  South African-born Margaret Marshall, ordered the General Court (GC, the state legislature)  to have legalized homosexual marriage.  Leaving aside for the moment the Supreme nonsense of this idea, the very act of a court ordering a law made is totally out of bounds in a republic where legislation is the duty and power of an elected legislature, whose members are subject  to a vote of the people.  Did our ancestors not  launch a revolution to ensure representation?

The GC made no such law, but it failed to set the Court straight by removing the four judges voting for this travesty under Article 8 of the Massachusetts Constitution, a provision written in by John Adams, who knew how arrogant appointed judges might become.  The lack of a law should have been the end of this unrepublican grab for power by the judiciary, but for the actions of our wimp governor, flip-flop Mitt "finger-to-the wind" Romney.   Whether from not reading carefully the November 14, 2003 decision, stupidity, or conerened about not losing any future voting bloc, Romney decided on his own to implement homosexual marriage (which is still not legal in Mass, as evidenced by attempts each year in the G.C. to legalize it).  Romney should have led in this area, by pointing out  how out of bounds the  SJC was, ignoring the decision, and by working with the GC for a bill of removal of the four judges. But no, Mitt buckled completely and gave Margaret and her three partners in their new dictatorship everything they wanted.

So today, we have a combination of the two branches of government not concerned with making laws having made one anyway, the people be dammed. To add insult to injury, the GC in July 2007 refused to permit the voters to vote on a constitutional amendment referendum supported by 170K voters to define marriage in Mass.  in its traditional manner. Surely we cannot call this state a republic anymore.  Massachussians concerned with the damage this decision has done and in doing something to restore common sense, representative government and rights of the people should join  MassResistance. (http://www.massresistance.org).