Same+Sex+Marriage+In+MA

=** __﻿Collaborative Page__ : **= *Allows same sex spouses to now recieve health care for eachother which was not allowed before as well as inherit property and adopting children *Same sex relations is being viewed as an everyday thing ... as being normal
 * Ixcia- [] (same sex marriage laws in MA.) **
 * * ** MA became the first U.S state to legalize same sex marriage May 17th, 2004, (6th jurisdiction in the world)

__* Liberal View:__ Marriage is the union of people who love each other and it should be legal for LGBT people. Also, all individuals, regardless of sexual orientation, have the right to marr y because if not, it denies them their civil rights. __* Conservative View:__ Requiring citizens to have same-sex relationships violates moral and religious beliefs. Also, marriage is the union of one man and one woman.
 * Tiarra- [|http://www.studentnewsdaily.com/other/conservative-vs-liberal-beliefs/] (Conservative VS Liberal Beliefs). **


 * Brandon- [] (Same Sex Marriage In Massachusetts). **
 * Supreme Court ruled of Massachusetts ruled //Goodridge v. Department of Public Health// is unconstitutional.
 * The city of Cambridge took in 227 same-sex marriage license applications in one night.

A federal district court judge in Boston today struck down the 1996 federal law that defines marriage as a union exclusively between a man and a woman.
 * Charles- [] (Judge Declares on US Gay Marriage Ban is Unconstitutional). **