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Massachusetts to consider allowing out of staters to marry

Posted by patriot on July 13th, 2008

No doubt some will start planning a road trip:

Lawmakers in Massachusetts are resurrecting a once-abandoned bill that would allow out-of-state duos to visit, obtain a Massachusetts “marriage” and then return home and create “havoc” with it, according to a pro-family organization.

“This bill would destabilize the Massachusetts marriage laws,” wrote Brian Camenker in his Mass Resistance alert on the issue. “Currently no out-of-state couple can get ‘married’ in Massachusetts if that marriage would not be legal in their home state. This would overturn that law.”

Massachusetts was the first state to allow same-sex duos to obtain a “marriage” license, several years ago. The action followed orders from state officials that county clerks must start issuing those certificates to duos other than the traditional one-man, one-woman couples. That in turn followed a Massachusetts Supreme Court opinion that said such couples could be recognized as “married.”

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