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By John Connolly   BOSTON, February 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Massachusetts Attorney General responded to a pro-life challenge to a 2007 buffer zone law on Wednesday, claiming that the law does not violate free speech in any way.   Martha Coakley, Attorney General of Massachusetts, filed a brief in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, opposing Operation Rescue Boston’s claim that the new law violates free speech. Coakley said in her brief that the law did not violate free speech, because the law did not prohibit what could be said, just where it could be said. […]

Wednesday January 13, 2010 LSN NewsBytes – January 13, 2009 * Disclaimer: The linked items below or the websites at which they are located do not necessarily represent the views of LifeSiteNews.com. They are presented only for your information. Compiled by Steve Jalsevac LIFE ISSUES Proposition 71 a “Failure” Wesley J. Smith California’s Proposition 71 was intended to create a $3 billion West Coast counterpart to the National Institutes of Health, empowered to go where the NIH could not — either because of federal policy or funding restraints on biomedical research centered on human embryonic stem cells…Five years later, ESCR […]

By Kathleen Gilbert BOSTON, July 8, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Massachusetts, the first state to legalize same-sex “marriage,” has filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) as an “overreaching and discriminatory federal law,” making it the first state to challenge the U.S. marriage statute.  Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley filed the suit today, stating that DOMA interferes with the state's sovereign right to define and regulate marriage.  DOMA states that federal law defines marriage as between a man and a woman, and therefore Massachusetts' “married” homosexual couples are not granted spousal benefits in matters […]

By Thaddeus M. Baklinski   BOSTON, August 26, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The repeal of the so-called Massachusetts 1913 law, that declared it illegal for couples to get married in Massachusetts if their unions would be illegal in their home states, is being challenged by the state’s leading pro-family group MassResistance.   An Associated Press report said that Attorney General Martha Coakley authorized a referendum question initiated by MassResistance, to appear on the November 2010 ballot, proposing to reinstate the nearly century old law barring out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts.   MassResistance now needs to gather signatures from 33,297 registered […]