Turning People Around

I found this story to be encouraging. Massachusetts attorney general Thomas Reilly is now in favor of keeping same sex marriage in Massachusetts and has vowed to fight attempts to overturn it. It’s encouraging, because he fought to prevent gay marriage from happening in the state a year ago.

Maybe when people see the issues involved, it changes everything. He said today, “Once rights are given, they should not be taken away.” That’s good, but, if it is the right thing that people have these rights today, wasn’t it always the right thing to do?

BOSTON – The state attorney general, who played a key role in state efforts to fight the legalization of gay marriage a year ago, now says he favors same-sex marriage and will oppose any efforts to ban it. [...]

“Once rights are given, they should not be taken away,” Reilly told The Boston Globe for Saturday’s editions. [...]

Members of the state’s gay and lesbian communities remain “furious” with Reilly, said Susan Ryan-Vollmar, editor of Bay Windows, New England’s largest gay and lesbian newspaper.

“When the subject comes up of Reilly running for governor, it runs from, ‘Over my dead body’ to ‘He is going to have to really grovel,’” she said. (source)