From the Boston Phoenix’s ongoing coverage of today’s constitutional convention in Massachusetts:

“Outside the State House in the long line waiting to get into the building, a young man with wispy brown hair pushed behind his ears turns to a much older man standing behind him and gives him an article that the younger man says describes how heterosexuals are undermining marriage. The older man is wearing a yellow circle sticker that says ‘SUPPORT MA AND PA.’ He mutters something to the young man who loudly replies: ‘Don’t tell me to calm down. You’re trying to take away my civil rights. Of course I’m excited.’ The older man says something else, to which the younger man says: ‘You don’t like butt fucking. Guess what? I’m 35 years old and I’ve never had a man’s dick up my ass and a lot of 35 year old women have.’

“A woman wearing a MassEquality sticker who was standing in line behind the older man gently wags her finger at the younger man and admonishes him: ‘Be nice, now.’

“Too late.”