This is the state that the rest of the country thinks is full of liberal weirdos?

"The typical Massachusetts legislator is a 50-year-old, white, male, Roman Catholic, Massachusetts-born, married Democrat with two children and a graduate degree (about half are law degrees) who ran unopposed in the last election, according to Boston Globe research and analysis."

- from Boston.com


...and, from the 'Nice Try, But Please Hire a Speechwriter' Department we have Representative Paul J.P. Loscocco, Republican of Holliston:

Why are we here today? In large part because this legislative body thwarted the referendum project two years ago. We refused to act; we dodged the question. If we're here to honor the referendum process, who are we kidding? Why would we want to amend our Constitution in such a way? . . . "We need to consider this carefully, that this is an ill-conceived attempt to split the difference and make no one happy. . . . I remind you all of another constitutional convention in 1789, where many members were told `let's compromise' . . . [a] three-fifths compromise.

So what if some group of people are considered to be less than others? Much to our shame, it's the one black spot on our Constitution, and it had to be changed. If we feel that it should be marriage for everyone, let's do that.

I'm sorry, did he really just call the 3/5 compromise the 'one black spot on our Constitution'? That's a shame.