Posted on 07/10/2008 4:05:01 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
BOSTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Massachusetts lawmakers say they are preparing to vote on whether to repeal a 1913 law that bans out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in the state.
Lawmakers say they expect the state Senate to take up the law Tuesday and the state House to do the same soon after.
House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi and Senate President Therese Murray back the repeal, but their support alone may not be enough to secure other lawmakers' votes, The Boston Globe reported Thursday.
Supporters of gay marriage rights say they are optimistic the repeal will be approved because of backing from leading lawmakers and Gov. Deval Patrick.
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Actually, the 1913 law doesn’t address gay “marriage” at all, since such a thing didn’t exist when it was passed. What it does is ban any one who is a resident from another state from getting married in Massachusetts if they are not eliglble to enter into such a marriage in the state they are resident in. Apparently it was passed so that interracial couples wouldn’t come up from down South back in Jim Crow days, get married, and go back down South. Once those laws were eliminated the law affected only couples who were underage or consanginuous by Massachusetts standards but not by their home states. However, what they law has now done is prevented out-of-state couples from entering into a same-sex “marriage” in Massachusetts.
I wonder what the voters think? Not that the legislators seem to care. If Massachusetts voters had the option of bypassing the legislature and place a constitutional amendment on the ballot directly same-sex “marriage” would probably no longer exist in the Bay State.
Interestingly enough, the same supreme court that imposed same-sex marriage in Mass. upheld the constitutionality of this law regarding out of state marriages. That’s why they are trying to push this repeal in the legislature because they couldn’t get it overturned in court.
Quite a misnomer....as it’s not a “gay marriag elaw” in any manner.
The law in question has little to do with homosexual marriage. It pertains only to marriages that the native state does not recognize and was enacted due to inter-racial marriage bein gillegal in some states.
These arrogant wastes of space refused to let the voters decide whether ‘gay marriage’ should be allowed in this state. To rub salt in the wound, they are proposing this.
I truly, truly hope that they get the proverbial finger in November and that the voters decide to abolish the state income tax. My informal polling suggests it will happen. Then our loser legislature will have to spend their time figuring out how to function on a budget as their constituents do. Perhaps they may have to lay off a cousin or two!
Not to be snarky, but voters do elect the legislators on a regular basis - the same legislators that killed the initiative for a marriage amendment. If there are indeed enough voters in the state to pass a constitutional amendment, why do they keep electing far-left, unsympathetic legislators? I'd really like to know.
“Who cares what the homo state does.”
You say that, but you may soon be supporting tax breaks for “married” gay couples in your own state when they waltz off to Mass to marry and plop back home with their hands open wide.
I’d imagine if this law passes that the states that don’t yet have constitutional amendments will quickly begin adding them to disallow these sham and shameful “marriages.”
I know, the world is upside down and I don’t expect it to get better. Trust in the Lord have faith and turn off the TV.
How interesting, that they're so concerned about the rights of homosexuals from out of state when they couldn't even muster the votes to allow the CITIZENS of MA the opportunity to cast OUR votes on this issue.
No, it’s not snarky, it’s a valid question. I haven’t lived in Massachusetts for a while. Here in Illinois we have a similarly non-responsive legislature. What happens here is that there’s collusion between the two parties. In many districts one party puts up whoever they feel like and the other party puts up some non-entity that is not a serious candidate and who doesn’t campaign. In those districts winning the primary is tantamount to winning the general election.
The way to fight this is to have people defiant of the party organizations run in the primaries. Unfortunately the general public doesn’t pay attention to or turn out for primaries. And that’s their fault. The party regulars who have something at stake in the party structure do turn out, so the regular candidates win and we end up with bogus non-responsive choices in the general election.
The Senate seat that Sen. Obama currently occupies was held by a Republican, one Sen. Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is an independently wealthy man who thought that the party regular candidates were hacks and put himself up for election. He ran a good campaign and in a stunning turn of events actually got elected in the primary, defeating the Reflublican regular candidate. He then got elected governor and appointed a U.S. Attorney for Illinois (also named Fitzgerald, but no relation) who has been merrily convicting politicians, lobbyists, etc. on corruption charges and throwing them in jail. He’s about 65 for 67 right now, including a) George Ryan, who was governor of the state when Fitzgerald was appointed and b) Tony Rezko, a close associate of Sen. Obama.
The party regulars hate him for these things, both the temerity to buck the established structure and his actions to actually clean up Illinois politics after he got elected. So in the 2004 elections, when the GOP nationally was desperate to hold on to every single Senate seat possible, the Illinois Reflublicans did everything they could to smear their own sitting Senator and drive him out of office. Which they did, successfully, as the man has a life and decided that spending the next 6 years dodging bullets from the front while checking his back for knives every day was a good way to die early and quit.
This is how Sen. Obama got elected in Illinois. The Illinois Reflublicans first nominated a fairly dynamic guy who stood a good chance of getting elected. Then his divorce records got in the paper and it turned out that his ex-wife (Jeri Ryan, a.k.a. “Seven of Nine” - if you’re not a Star Trek fan she’s quite the hot looking woman) charged that he took her to a sex club in Paris and tried to get her to have sex with other men while he watched. So he ended up dropping out. Now, about that time the Illinois Reflublicans went without a party chairman for about 30 or 40 days because the chairman had to step down. He was found to be using state-paid legislative staff to do party work and was under threat of indictment. Nobody reputable would take the job because they were afraid that it would stain their reputation, and they were probably right. In this chaotic situation the moderate wing of the party gave the right wing it’s head, and they ended up bringing in Alan Keyes from Maryland to run for Senator. There’s no way in hell that Illinois citizens will vote for someone with extremist (by Illinois standards) views who is a citizen of an East Coast state. So Obama got elected damn near by acclamation. There was no real contest.
Yeah, I remember the No Votes for Rights campaign. I guess that no one noted that every single right we have was voted on. Gays are special, I guess.
Apparently.
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