Mass. Clerks told not to wed gay couples

JoFerret

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Fri May-21-04 04:27 PM
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Mass. Clerks told not to wed gay couples

Edited on Fri May-21-04 04:28 PM by JoFerret

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=4&u=/ap/20040521/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage

BOSTON - The Massachusetts attorney general said Friday that he has warned clerks in four communities to stop issuing marriage licenses to out-of-state gay couples.

"Let me make it very clear here: If there are violations of the law, the law will be enforced," Attorney General Thomas Reilly said

Officials in Provincetown, Somerville, Springfield and Worcester have openly defied Gov. Mitt Romney's order not to let nonresident same-sex couples marry.

Acting on a request from the governor, Reilly sent letters to the clerks. He said he shares Romney's interpretation of a 1913 Massachusetts law barring couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their union would not be recognized in their home state.

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truthspeaker

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Fri May-21-04 04:29 PM
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1. goddamn Yahoo and their misleading headlines

It's just out-of-state gay couples they were ordered not to marry.

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displacedtexan

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Fri May-21-04 04:31 PM
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2. That law was intended to keep interracial couples from marrying in MA.

It was a stupid law then, and it's a stupid law today! The only way MA can enforce this stupid law is to void ALL marriages between people who crossed state lines to marry between 1913 and today!

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robbedvoter

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Fri May-21-04 04:53 PM
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5. Jeb is using an old racist law to purge felons from voting

Ashcroft was ising a law fron 1879 prohibiting brother owners to approach ships to prosecute Greenpeace (lost).
Do I see a patern here?

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Book Lover

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Fri May-21-04 04:49 PM
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3. Legal technical issue

Doesn't the MA law run counter to the full-faith-and-credit clause of the federal Constitution?

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David__77

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Fri May-21-04 04:50 PM
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4. I doubt the courts will uphold this law.

I think that it's clearly discriminatory to enforce this policy. There are different state-by-state guildelines on heterosexual marriage as well, but they are aren't diggin around on these issues, now are they?

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gratuitous

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Fri May-21-04 04:55 PM
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6. Just do what Republicans always do

Run to the courthouse and file a lawsuit! Who cares if you lost? File a lawsuit so you can slap a patina of legality on your crime, and just steal the result back.

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4_Legs_Good

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Fri May-21-04 04:56 PM
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7. Good Lord, next thing you know, they're gonna pull out the old anti-thong

legislation!

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationalpolitics/2001930402_lowriders16.html

It's weird that some new laws (and laws to be) are just as stupid old ones.

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