Court: Gays Can't Come To Mass. To Marry.

Source: Chron.com

Gay marriages in general got struck a hard blow as the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a 1913 state law that forbids nonresidents from marrying there if the marriage would not be recognized in their home state.

BOSTON -- Christopher McCary and John Sullivan still consider themselves married, even if a ruling by Massachusetts' highest court puts their union in legal limbo.

On Thursday, the Supreme Judicial Court, which three years ago made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage, upheld a 1913 state law that forbids nonresidents from marrying there if the marriage would not be recognized in their home state.

So in the eyes of the law, McCary and Sullivan are just two guys living in a house together in Alabama. That has them contemplating a move to Massachusetts, an idea considered even before their vows.

"We have been looking for real estate in Massachusetts," said McCary, an attorney in Anniston, Ala. "I wonder if we moved there would our marriage be legal."

Eight gay couples from surrounding states had challenged the law in a case watched closely across the country. Five of those eight couples actually received marriage licenses in Massachusetts before the governor ordered the 1913 law be enforced.

And the anti-gay hate speech from Governor Mitt Romney:

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney applauded the ruling.

"We don't want Massachusetts to become the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage," Romney said. "It's important that other states have the right to make their own determination of marriage and not follow the wrong course that our Supreme Judicial Court put us on."

Give me a break. This is another lurid attempt to make this a national issue and push this to the ballot. Isn't this a free country?

Oops...my mistake, America is only free if the minority religious zealots approve of how you are married and what your religious views are.

Free Iraq...how about a free America?

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