See my 244 in reply. Massachusetts is knocking over the applecart of a universal institution and hijacking every other State in the Union.
If the government's buttons can be pushed by a tiny minority for their own convenience in the face of massive opposition by the People, then what the hell does democracy mean any more? What business does any court in the land have, extending privileges to people who don't deserve them, but just play conspiratorial and Brown Shirt politics until the government says they can have them?
The basic problem is that the United States is now run by people who are no longer Americans, aren't part of America, and are hostile both to the idea of America, and to people who try to live it.
Well, as our good friend Luis Gonzales has pointed out in scholarly posts, it's not necessarily so. We had a long period of time where interracial marriage was legal in some states, and illegal in others, until it was overthrown by the SCOTUS after public opinion had shifted enough to allow this. We still have about half of the states allowing first cousin marriage, and half not allowing it.
Gov. Romney has stated his opinion on the law involving out of state couples, surely any state that wishes to keep its laws intact will submit to its own court that the MA marriage application was not filled out in good faith. If a non-MA state court needs a reason to not recognize the MA marriage, this would be it.
What business does any court in the land have, extending privileges to people who don't deserve them,
Well, that's what courts are charged with. They make their decisions either rightly or wrongly, but we apportion that power to them. I guess the folks in MA can use this decision as the impetus to abolish lifetime tenure for the judges of the highest courts in their state, perhaps they will get justice that is more representative of the people being served.