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Majority Support Gay Marriage

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Massachusetts residents, by a solid margin, said they support the Supreme Judicial Court’s landmark decision legalizing gay marriage, according to a Boston Globe/WBZ-TV poll.

The poll of 400 people, the first survey of Bay State residents since the court’s historic ruling, indicated that 50 percent agree with the justices’ decision, and 38 percent oppose it. Eleven percent expressed no opinion.

The poll also indicated that a majority oppose efforts by the Legislature, Governor Mitt Romney, and Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly to block same-sex marriages and allow civil unions instead.

A majority, 53 percent, also oppose a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban same-sex marriages by defining marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. Thirty-six percent support the amendment. [Boston Globe]

This is Getting Interesting

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Gay rights advocates Friday denounced Attorney General Tom Reilly’s reaction to the state high court’s gay marriage decision, arguing that it was shameful for the state’s chief law enforcement officer to promote a “separate-but-equal” system.

“The notion that you can separate somehow these benefits, protections and obligations of marriage from the status of marriage itself is just unbelievable, I think,” said Gary Buseck, executive director of Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders, which represented the plaintiffs in the landmark case. “Frankly, I think he reads it in a way that is completely preposterous.”

Reilly, who held his first press conference since the Supreme Judicial Court issued its decision, denied that he was calling for a separate-but-equal statute for gay couples, but said he thought the ruling left the Legislature room to approve something other than gay marriage as long as it provided equal benefits and protections. [Boston Globe]

Out: Grady Little

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Red Sox chose to not renew his contract. He is gone baby, gone.

Nice job Grady – wish you the best.

Now, someone that can clinch the fucking ALCS please?

BoA to buy FleetBoston Financial

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BOSTON (AP) — Bank of America Corp. has agreed to buy FleetBoston Financial Corp., in a $47 billion deal that will create one of the biggest banking companies in the world.

The companies said Monday the deal will establish a new company that the companies said will be the nation’s largest consumer bank with about 33 million customers and 2.5 million business clients in the United States and 34 countries [New York Times]