Thursday, February 24, 2005
Out-Of-State Gay Couples Suing To Have 1913 Anti-Race-Mixing Law Overturned
From the Boston Herald:
The Supreme Judicial Court has decided to take up the issue of whether out-of-state same-sex couples should be allowed to come to Massachusetts to be married despite a 1913 state law currently stopping them. The law, which makes it illegal to perform marriages in Massachusetts for couples who cannot legally marry in their own state, was not enforced for many years until the SJC's historic November 2003 Goodridge decision, which said it was unconstitutional in this state to ban gay marriage.What the article doesn't mention is that the 1913 law was originally intended to keep black and white couples from going to Massachusetts to get married, and should have been stricken from the books decades ago. The Republicans under Governor Mitt Romney are using a racist law to uphold homophobia.
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