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Friday, March 31, 2006

Non-state gays cannot 'marry'

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The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court yesterday upheld a 1913 state law that blocks out-of-state homosexual couples from legally "marrying" there.

"[T]he laws of this Commonwealth have not endowed nonresidents with an unfettered right to marry," Justice Francis X. Spina wrote for the 6-1 majority.

The high court's ruling continues current policy, which says out-of-state couples cannot marry in Massachusetts unless their marriage is permissible in their home state.

Because Massachusetts is the only U.S. state to allow same-sex "marriage," the 1913 law effectively bans nonresident homosexual couples from "marrying" there.

However, the high court suggested that New York and Rhode Island might allow same-sex "marriage," and directed plaintiffs from those two states to seek lower court hearings to determine whether same-sex "marriage" is prohibited there.

Most of the eight out-of-state homosexual plaintiff couples live in states where same-sex"marriage" is clearly prohibited, the court noted in its ruling.

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican, praised yesterday's ruling, saying: "We don't want Massachusetts to become the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage.

"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," Mr. Romney said.

Plaintiff Mark Pearsall of Connecticut called the ruling "illogical," and his lawyers at the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders said it was "disappointing."

The decision "is a speed bump on the long road to fairness," said Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign, which promotes homosexual rights.

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