Massachusetts court won't force legislators to vote on same-sex marriage

Jay Lindsay of the Associated Press in the Advocate

In its ruling the supreme judicial court wrote, "Beyond resorting to aspirational language that relies on the presumptive good faith of elected representatives, there is no presently articulated judicial remedy for the legislature's indifference to, or defiance of, its constitutional duties." The same court had ruled in 2003 that the state constitution guaranteed gays the right to marry.