Hail Mary becomes Hey! Merry!

In what critics had called a "Hail Mary" attempt to prevent the beginning of same-sex marriages in Massachusetts on Monday, a coalition of bigoted state lawmakers and conservative wackos petitioned the federal courts to issue a stay to block county clerks from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples.

The state's Supreme Judicial Court determined in November that banning same-sex marriages violated the state constitution's equal protection clauses because a definable group of people was being denied rights and benefits available to others. The right-wing boobs' argument was that even though such interpretation is the Court's purpose, by doing so, it had somehow violated the principle of separation of powers.

Their motion for a stay lost at the District Court level.

It lost at the Appeals Court level.

And now,

[t]he Supreme Court refused Friday to block Massachusetts from allowing gay marriages beginning Monday, removing the last legal impediment to what will be the nation's first state-sanctioned same-sex weddings.

The motion was declined without comment.

Let the issuing begin!

Footnote: On the downside, the Appeals Court agreed to consider the demerits of the nitwits' claims at a hearing set for June. The slimebucket lawyers representing the creeps are already talking about arguing their so-called case before the Supreme Court.