Abraca-Pocus - Many proponents of gay marriage are elated that Massachusetts' slow constitutional amendment process means that real marriages will exist before the Goodridge rulings could be overturned. (The rulings go into effect in May; the earliest amendment could be ratified is November 2006.) Not so fast. In a novel twist, the Massachusetts legislature - sitting as a constitutional convention - is set to review a proposed amendment that would, post hoc, convert any gay marriages performed before the amendment can be ratified into civil unions.

UPDATE: Both amendments failed. (The one with the civil union transmogrification and the one without.) So I guess it's back to the drawing board.