Decision Day at GLAD

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.

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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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