«The only effect of a positive vote will be to make same - sex couples, and their families, unequal to everyone else; this is
discrimination in its rawest form... There is no Massachusetts precedent
discussing, or deciding, whether the initiative procedure may be used to add a constitutional provision that purposefully discriminates
against an oppressed and disfavored
minority of our citizens in direct contravention of theprinciples of liberty and equality protection by Art. 1 of the Massachusetts Declaration of Rights.»