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Massachusetts

• July 15 -- FMA "Writing Bigotry Into the Constitution"
A lead editorial omits some facts about the gay marriage debate to make conservatives appear cynical, while accusing them of "writing bigotry into the Constitution."

• May 18 -- Ring-Bearers for Gay Marriage in Massachusetts
"Hundreds of Same-Sex Couples Wed in Massachusetts" is the headline over a huge photo spanning four columns of the Times front page, accompanying a lead story that lets liberal gay advocates compare the gay weddings to the civil rights movement.

• February 6 -- The "Non-Ideological" Massachusetts Supreme Court
Pam Belluck insists the Massachusetts Supreme Court, which ruled in favor of gay marriage, is not necessarily liberal: "They are not, for the most part, considered ideologues, and their views are often difficult to pigeonhole, experts say."

• November 25 -- "Perfect Timing" for Gay Marriage
Wedding writer Lois Smith Brady assumes her readers are as giddy as she about the Massachusetts Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage: "Last week's ruling by the highest court in Massachusetts legalizing gay marriage was perfectly timed in many ways....it comes just in time for same-sex couples to begin planning a June wedding."

• November 20 -- Justice Scalia: "Apocalyptic" but Basically Right
Linda Greenhouse's piece on the Mass. Supreme Court decision striking down gay marriage bans credits conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia with "apocalyptic statements," while calling the Mass. decision "a strikingly inclusive decision that both apologized for the past and, looking to the future, anchored the gay-rights claim at issue in the case firmly in the tradition of human rights at the broadest level."

• September 23 -- “Exoneration” Sweeping the Nation?
Pam Belluck claims: “As more than 100 people sentenced to death have been exonerated across the nation, other states have abridged or considered abridging the use of the death penalty.” Belluck makes it sound like a movement sweeping the nation, but the truth is less dramatic: Those 100-plus people span a period of 30 years.