Massachusetts marriages convert minds
“It was quite a long journey…. My prior religious beliefs and faith dictated that it wasn’t right and it wasn’t moral. But you go into so many homes [of gay couples,] and you feel the happiness – you really did – it was kind of incredible.”
State Representative Paul Kujawski of Webster, MA, a socially-conservative Catholic Democrat who voted three times for a ban of gay marriage, discussing questions he asked himself that led to a conversion to kill a proposed anti-gay state constitutional amendment. (San Jose Mercury News)
“I cry at them. It’s a powerful thing that we’re doing for these [gay] couples…. [For older couples, it’s] something that never in their whole life did they think they would be able to do, and it gives them … dignity.”
Claire Watts, a 69-year-old retiree and grandmother who is a justice of the peace in a small town near the tip of Cape Cod. (San Jose Mercury News)
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