Snipped from Boston.com.

Any regular reader of Blog4Brains can tell you where I stand on abortion, gay marriage and many other personal issues in which our “wonderful” government wants to intrude. I will say that most of this Constitutional travesty is created out of religious righteousness even though our First Amendment declares that this is unAmerican. If you are interested in what I have to say about these issues you can read The Fear of Abortion — Wiping Out Freedoms and Why Gay Marriage is Politically Important. The problem with these articles is that it is me talking about why it is important to address these issues, yet who am I to say anything? But, here I found a prominent lawmaker Representative Gale Candaras, a Democrat from Wilbraham, discuss why she has changed her view on this very important issue.

Here is a portion of the article that reads how she ended up changing her mind on gay marriage rights.

For me, what all this comes down to is this: Same gendered couples are taxpaying, law-abiding citizens, who are important community contributors, well-loved and well-respected by their families, friends, neighbors and employers. They deserve and are entitled to the same legal protections enjoyed by all others citizens of our state. This is the law of the Commonwealth, articulated by our Supreme Judicial Court in Goodrich v. The Department of Public Health, decided in November, 2003.

Despite dire predictions, there has been no adverse societal impact from this decision and most people now express little concern about same gender marriage.

Springfield and Western Massachusetts needs these families, and all our families, to help rebuild our neighborhoods and the peaceful and productive society to which I know, whatever our differences on some things, we all aspire. As a practical matter, I believe we simply cannot afford to marginalize our human resources. Most importantly, I feel strongly that no child should ever be made to feel “less than” or “second-best” nor should any of our children be exposed to a public campaign focused on adult matters of personal privacy. There is altogether too much unseemly information brought into our homes and schools already. It is in the best interests of our children that we accept fully these new families.

I also want to address directly one of the more contentious issues in this debate: Same gender couples have been adopting children and building families here in the Commonwealth for about twenty years. In many instances, same gendered couples have adopted children with severe challenges, children no one else wanted, and they have worked miracles with them. These children would have lived lives of despair without these families. This underscores how we cannot afford to marginalize any of our people; make anyone second-class citizens. We are all precious resources to each other, and to generations yet to come. …

One grandmother told me she had changed her mind and wanted me to change my vote in case one of her grandchildren grew up to be gay or lesbian. She did not want any of her grandchildren to be denied the right to marry the person they love. This is exactly the legacy we will leave to generations beyond us, and the example we can set for the nation and, I daresay the world, which is certainly paying attention to what we do and say here today.

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