“The court effectively shut the door on any legislative or judicial challenge to its historic ruling last November. By the same margin, 4-3, the majority reaffirmed its opinion that gay marriage is constitutional and anything to reverse it is unconstitutional…

That advisory opinion to the Senate, which had been contemplating the passage of a civil union bill that would fall short of recognizing gay marriage, seemingly kills any short range chance of overturning the Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling in November, which declared same sex marriages to be constitutional.

The November decision has been targeted by Catholic bishops and Gov. Mitt Romney for reversal, who responded to Wednesday’s action saying, “While we’ve heard from the court, we haven’t heard yet from the people of Massachusetts.” ” —The Boston Channel. The forces of reaction are planning a constitutional convention to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman; if the court will no longer tolerate unconstitutional practice, then change the constitution, as simple as that.