Decision Day at GLAD

Gemini Cricket · 09-29-2006, 10:10 AM

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A Massachusetts Superior Court judge ruled on Friday that a lesbian couple from Rhode Island could marry in Massachusetts because Rhode Island does not have a law specifically banning it.
The same-sex couple would be the first from outside of Massachusetts to marry in the only U.S. state where gay marriage is legal, a step long-sought by gay rights advocates and opposed by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and conservative Christian groups.

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Amazing.

My office took this case to court. It's one happy day at GLAD.

When court decisions are announced, it's a really big event in our office. Good or bad, it gets grand attention from us all.

Today is a good day.

Strangler Lewis · 09-29-2006, 10:23 AM

Congratulations!

JWBear · 09-29-2006, 12:47 PM

Yay!!!! Cool!!!!!

innerSpaceman · 09-29-2006, 02:10 PM

Huzzah.

sleepyjeff · 09-29-2006, 02:23 PM

Awesome for you GD

innerSpaceman · 09-29-2006, 02:40 PM

oh, yeah, and I suppose it's an ok day for those Rhode Island dykes, too.

Alex · 09-29-2006, 02:56 PM

Is this intended to create a legal challenge in Rhode Island under reciprocity? If so, I can see this have a negative backlash of hurrying other states into explicitly rejecting it rather than coming to terms with it on their own.

I have a feeling that it may eventually happen tha thte people of Wyoming are convinced to let their gays marry. I'm guessing they'll be much more resistant to a Massachussetts judge telling them that they have to let their gays marry. And once things get ensconced as state constitutional amendments it will be much harder to get them back out than the current situations in most states.

Strangler Lewis · 09-29-2006, 03:17 PM

Full faith and credit would be an issue even if married gay Massachusetts residents (or domiciliaries) went to Wyoming and sought some state right granted to married people. That said, I've read the article, and I don't understand who was on the other side. Is there a law in Massachusetts that said you have to be a resident to get married in Massachusetts? If so, why didn't it apply? I don't understand the language about the fact that Rhode Island did not have a prohibition. It's generally assumed that if Roe/Casey falls and some states outlaw abortion, you would be able to go to any other state that permits it (absent some constitutionally questionable federal restriction). So, details please.

Ghoulish Delight · 09-29-2006, 03:20 PM

If you click the "Next Article" link, then got to page 2 of that article, you'll find...

"Friday's case was focused on a law passed in 1913 that bars out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their own states fail to recognize the union."

Strangler Lewis · 09-29-2006, 05:39 PM

Sounds like a bad old law targeted at accommodating anti-miscegenation laws.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	Is this intended to create a legal challenge in Rhode Island under reciprocity? If so, I can see this have a negative backlash of hurrying other states into explicitly rejecting it rather than coming to terms with it on their own. I have a feeling that it may eventually happen tha thte people of Wyoming are convinced to let their gays marry. I'm guessing they'll be much more resistant to a Massachussetts judge telling them that they have to let their gays marry. And once things get ensconced as state constitutional amendments it will be much harder to get them back out than the current situations in most states.
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Strangler Lewis Doing The Job Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a state Posts: 3,956	Full faith and credit would be an issue even if married gay Massachusetts residents (or domiciliaries) went to Wyoming and sought some state right granted to married people. That said, I've read the article, and I don't understand who was on the other side. Is there a law in Massachusetts that said you have to be a resident to get married in Massachusetts? If so, why didn't it apply? I don't understand the language about the fact that Rhode Island did not have a prohibition. It's generally assumed that if Roe/Casey falls and some states outlaw abortion, you would be able to go to any other state that permits it (absent some constitutionally questionable federal restriction). So, details please. __________________ Live now-pay later. Diner's Club!
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	If you click the "Next Article" link, then got to page 2 of that article, you'll find... "Friday's case was focused on a law passed in 1913 that bars out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their own states fail to recognize the union." __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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Strangler Lewis Doing The Job Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In a state Posts: 3,956	Sounds like a bad old law targeted at accommodating anti-miscegenation laws. __________________ Live now-pay later. Diner's Club!
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