James Alan Montgomery (June 13, 1866 – February 6, 1949) was an American Episcopalian clergyman, Oriental scholar, and Biblical scholar who was professor of Old Testament and Semitics, he served as president of the American Oriental Society, it was chartered under the laws of Massachusetts on which date?
James Alan Montgomery James Alan Montgomery (June 13, 1866 – February 6, 1949) was an American Episcopalian clergyman, Oriental scholar, and Biblical scholar who was professor of Old Testament and Semitics (Hebrew and Aramaic), first at the Philadelphia Divinity School, and later, from 1913 to 1948, at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as president of the American Oriental Society and Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis.
Same-sex marriage in Massachusetts Same-sex marriage has been legally recognized in Massachusetts since May 17, 2004, as a result of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruling in "Goodridge v. Department of Public Health" that it was unconstitutional under the Massachusetts constitution to allow only opposite-sex couples to marry. Massachusetts became the sixth jurisdiction in the world (after the Netherlands, Belgium, Ontario, British Columbia, and Quebec) to legalize same-sex marriage. It was the first U.S. state to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.