Get your handbaskets ready, folks!

In addition to all the other debachery and mayhem happening in this country, here's an update on the marriage equality front from good ol' Massachusetts...

1. The Constitutional Convention is one week from today. There, they will vote whether or not an ammendment to the Constitution, which will turn marriages between two people of the same gender into civil unions, can be voted on in November, 2006.

2. Stupid Attorney General Tom Reilly today certified another ammendment proposition from our favorite Article 666 Alliance that would define marriage as a union between a woman and a man. However, this new proposition would maintain marriages between two men or two women that already exist. So, it shouldn't have been passed because it creates two separate classes of citizens - Gay people who are married and gay people who aren't allowed to get married. Here's the article: The bad guys who hate the gays.

What I'm wondering is, if both of these pass, would the marriages that already exist could turn into civil unions and then turn back into marriages? Or would they turn into civil unions and then disappear because they'd no longer be marriages? Ooh that's tricky.

Or, if the first one passes, is the second irrelevant?

Will it ever end?