Tomato, tomaaahto, let's call the whole thing off: The Massachusetts legislature took the bold move of voting for the semantic middle ground between Gay Marriage and "gays should have no rights at all because it is a sin." In other words they voted to ban Gay Marriage but allow for Civil Unions because every generation must play with the Separate but Equal doctrine before it realizes that separate is never equal. Should the legislature vote this way next year, then the people of Massachusetts get to vote homosexuals off the island of marriage in 2006. In other semantic news there are now three legal challenges to the late-term abortion ban. This is also known as partial birth, which has the semantic effect of making it sound as though a woman is allowed to have an abortion during a C-Section.

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