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Mass may also stop this by ceasing all issuance of marriage licenses. IOW, NOBODY gets a marriage license in Mass. Equal for all, untill the constitutional vote.

That is the only answer, really, at this point, but I'm not sure how one could do so at this point.

Marriages are recorded at the county level, not the state level -- can the legislature ban the issuance of marriage licenses and the recording thereof? And a better question, can the state supreme court just overturn that rule as well?

The day that decision came down and I read the inane concepts put forth by the court, it looked to me as if the battle was already done with barring modification of the state constitution.

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This southafrican born woman judge certainly thinks she can do whatever the h*ll she pleases. Extreme black robe fever.

Fun options, what if Mass passed a law declaring homosexuality a mental illness and prohibited the mentally ill from marrying?

The state legislature can always pre-empt local gov. The state sets the standards for the issuance of licenses.

Couples would have to cross state lines, obtain a license from an non-mass jurisdiction. Then the Mass SC would have a FFC issue. The out of controll Mass court can't order the neighboring states to follow a mass order.

I have a theory, the Mass SC knows they can't force the state to pass a law. They could have overturned the Mass marriage law completly but they could not make them pass a law. This could just be the largest brass sphere bluff by the Mass SC.