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To the Editor,
On November 19, you reported that Lieutenant Governor Healy endorsed a proposed constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. You quote her as saying, “I believe that major changes in our constitution and rights… should be made not by a judicial body but by the people.”
I would like to ask, with respect, that a Globe reporter follow up and ask if the Lieutenant Governor believes that same logic holds for the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v Board of Education decision, in which the Court overturned the will of legislatures throughout the nation to desegregate our public schools, and also to the 1967 Loving v Virginia decision in which the court struck down laws banning interracial marriage that were supported at the time by 90% of the American public? |
Should these “major changes to our constitutional and rights” have been made by “the people?” or was the Supreme Court correct to say that some rights may not be abridged, no matter how large the majority that favors doing so.
The article goes on to quote the Lieutenant Governor as saying “I believe that gay and lesbian couples can be loving and good parents. I am very grateful to those who choose to adopt children." Once again, I’d like to ask that a Globe reporter pose the obvious follow up question: “Are these adopted children better off if their parents are legally married, or denied that fundamental right?”
Thank you,
9:10:21 AM 
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