MASS. COURT SEEKS BRIEFS ON CIVIL UNIONS: From the Boston Globe

The Supreme Judicial Court is soliciting legal briefs from "interested persons" as it considers the Massachusetts Senate's request for an
advisory opinion on the constitutionality of a civil unions bill.

The court, a month after its explosive 4-3 decision on gay marriages, posted notices Monday that the briefs must be submitted by Jan. 12, four weeks before the Legislature, meeting as a constitutional convention,
will take up an agenda that includes a proposed constitutional amendment
to ban same-sex marriages.

"This is encouraging to me," said Ron Crews, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, which is coordinating the opposition to the court's Nov. 18 decision. "I've never seen this as a settled matter."

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