MA: Legislators Set on Banning Gay Marriage

[Alcon]

As much as I empathise with the anti-activism stand from a legal perspective, I can't help but feel that conservatives are demanding "special treatment" for an issue when they go as far as to say that even legislatures shouldn't be able to decide the issue á la Schwarzenegger.  It seems that a body elected solely to legislate should, err, have that authority.

I genuinely hope that the voters of Massachusetts do the right thing and weigh the damages of having gay marriage (none apparent to me thus far) against the revocation of the rights and security given to those who have married.

[Alcon]

Al, could you expand on that a bit?  Even if it was meant rhetorically, I'm curious - I have no idea how the Democrats came how to control the legislature.