One Can Always Count on the Left to Side With the Barbarians

This time it is in Spain where the prime minister knows he was elected only because of the Islamic terror that was unleashed on his country just before the election.

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Another Sign of Just How Much Contempt the Left Has for American Voters

BOSTON, July 12 — The Massachusetts legislature on Wednesday postponed until after Election Day what promises to be an impassioned debate and vote on a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage, which has been legal here for two years.
Meeting in a joint session, legislators spent four hours debating matters scheduled ahead of the marriage amendment, which was next to last on the agenda, and voted, 100 to 91, to recess until Nov. 9.
If the amendment is approved by one-quarter of the legislature this year and next, it will be placed on the ballot as a referendum in November 2008.
The postponement infuriated opponents of same-sex marriage and galvanized its supporters.
“We now have four more months to show legislators how well marriage equality is working in Massachusetts,” Marc Solomon, a spokesman for the main group opposing the amendment, said in a statement. “The legislature should dispense with this undemocratic, discriminatory amendment and move on to the real concerns facing Massachusetts.”
Arline Isaacson, chairwoman of the Massachusetts Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus, said, “We do feel like we dodged a bullet, because had there been a vote today we would have lost.”
Lisa Barstow, a spokeswoman for voteonmarriage.org, which gathered 170,000 petition signatures, a state record, said the legislature ignored the will of the voters.
“It’s a travesty,” Ms. Barstow said. “Whenever the people want their voices heard, the legislature stalls, delays or sends to the political graveyard whatever citizens are asking to be heard about.”
A spokeswoman for the Senate president, Robert Travaglini, said that legislators worked through much of the agenda and that he was committed to having a vote on the marriage amendment by the end of the year.
Gov. Mitt Romney, an opponent of same-sex marriage who last week pushed for a vote on the issue at a news conference with Cardinal Sean O’Malley, the archbishop of Boston, said then and again on Wednesday that he was trying to ensure that the issue would be voted on.
“In a democracy, the people are sovereign,” Mr. Romney, a Republican, said in a statement. “Tens of thousands of citizens have petitioned the government for the right to have their voices heard. They have played by the rules. This issue won’t go away until the people are heard.”
Opponents of same-sex marriage said they planned to use the recess as a campaign issue, as the entire legislature, which is controlled by Democrats, is up for re-election this year.
“We want to make sure there is a bright line drawn between those who wanted to recess and those who wanted to get the job done today,” Ms. Barstow said.
Ms. Isaacson said supporters were not worried.
“They cannot make a campaign issue out of legislators’ simply postponing debate until a later date,” Ms. Isaacson said. “No one’s saying it won’t be voted on. They just said we’ll do it later.”
Supporters of same-sex marriage challenged the legality of the measure, saying an amendment could not challenge the ruling of the state’s highest court, which ruled in 2003 that same-sex couples had the right to marry under the Massachusetts Constitution. The same court ruled on Monday that the petition was legal and should be heard by the legislature.