Comments on: Lesbian couple who fought for marriage in Mass. to divorce

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:41:41 +0000

blah, blah, blah

By: ferhy

ferhy — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:33:52 +0000

“(…)I also can’t help but reflect on the pain this couple has caused on the commonwealth and the nation to redefine marriage. And now they’re getting divorced? It doesn’t make a lot of sense,”

This is the most moronic thing I’ve ever read. So gay couples are fighting so hard to get a right to marriage that they’re not allowed the right to divorce like every couple???

Are we going to have to fight bitter battles to get every single simple basic right everyone else is given?!

By: a.

a. — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 20:40:12 +0000

Their separation was discussed in the press back in the summer of 2006. It’s sad, but it happens, and everyone’s rights will be protected better than if they had not been able to marry. Let’s give them some privacy and move on.

By: Bud Evans

Bud Evans — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:28:03 +0000

The woman who fought for reproductive choice all the way to the US Supreme Court in Roe -v- Wade became a “born-again Christian” several years ago — I guess she though she
needed a do-over. Then she came out publicly and denounced abortion.

At least these ladies are not denouncing same-sex marriage equality as some self-destructive Gay men and Lesbians have done in several other states when there was a child custody case involved.

…We should all be at least grateful for that.

~ Bud Evans

http://rainfish2000.blogspot.com

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:36:38 +0000

Things happen, life happens, people change.
Know this is a let down for some, but these women fought with other gay people and their allies to get Massachusetts to where it is today. And it has Connecticut next door to it another gay marriage state. Never thought my birthstate would have gay marriage,, but then years ago never thought any state at all in the US or any place in the world for that matter would have gay marriage.

Years ago the idea of same-sex partners was something I never thought about except in fleeting thought as a twenty year old like, too bad men can’t marry each other. But 35 years ago how many people had such an idea except as a passing dreamy notion not to be taken seriously.

In 35 years times and ways of looking at things can be very different, hopes and aspirations can be very different from way back then. Men might have shared living space and be madly in love back then just like now, but then marriage would have been like a fantasy to be pushed away.

People like these who dared to do more than hope and fought to change that hope into the reality of being married and of being able to protect their relationship and each other just in case….

People like these 2 women were pioneers and trailblazers working toward making the way easier for future gay couples wantng to marry.

I wish them the best of luck in again finding future happiness with that special someone.

By: Sandra Woosley

Sandra Woosley — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:59:41 +0000

Just how much hypocrisy does it take for anti-gay marriage groups to rejoice in a lesbian couple getting a divorce. If marriages failing was the criteria for forbidding marriage between a couple then no man and woman should have the right to a legal marriage since at least half or more of those marriages fail too, at least in America. Rejoicing in the failure of any marriage is just one more example of the true nature of these people who hate the thought of legal gay marriages. Only a person missing something in their hearts and souls would rejoice in someone elses pain no matter what the reason. Shame on them…Shame that even their God may not forgive when their time comes.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:47:35 +0000

I agree that it’s sad that they fought for so long,and now it’s over.
But I still give them all the credit,in the world,that they fought and won!
Not just for themselves,but for ALL of us.

By: Isaac

Isaac — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:39:12 +0000

Barb,

I can’t agree with you more. They fought for the right to marry and in doing so they gave gays and lesbians the same opportunities to divorce that straight people have long enjoyed. While it is sad they are exercising that right, we should celebrate the fact that they have it in the first place, and others will continue to have it long after they can no longer stand to look at each other.

By: TJNV

TJNV — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:30:18 +0000

Ah (Ms., Mrs., or is it Missy) Kris Mineua. The only pain this couple put anyone through would be latent homosexuals that feel they cannot come out becuse of a narrow world view forced on them. Or the hateful ignorant that feels like the world will end if we do not all believe like you.

Tom in Long Beach

By: shawn

shawn — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:55:26 +0000

Damn…That’s messed up! Why be together after all of these years, just to split up after u get married? and FOUGHT to get married at that… That’s just ridiculous.