The bastard just doesn't know when to admit defeat!

[freetobegay]

Massachusetts governor demands wedding licenses

Gov. Mitt Romney's administration on Tuesday demanded copies of all marriage-license applications filled out by gay couples in Provincetown and three other cities that openly defied the governor's residency requirement for same-sex marriages. The request may signal the next front in the legal battle over same-sex marriage.

Romney, a Republican who opposes gay marriage, previously said he would declare any licenses issued to out-of-state gay couples void, and he threatened unspecified legal action against any clerks who issued them.

On Monday, clerks in Provincetown, Worcester, Springfield, and Somerville accepted marriage license applications from out-of-state couples, just as they had announced they would do. "They've singled out only the select few that announced a policy contrary to the governor's interpretation," Provincetown town manager Keith Bergman said. "This is the first step toward something, that's for sure."

Romney spokeswoman Shawn Feddeman would not comment on the demand for the documents but said, "Any marriages performed outside of the law are null and void under Massachusetts statutes."

The governor recently warned clerks to follow a 1913 state law that prohibits nonresidents from getting married in Massachusetts if their union would not be legal in their home state. Since no other state recognizes gay marriages, Romney said out-of-state gay couples who have no intention of moving to Massachusetts could not obtain marriage licenses.

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=12486&sd=05/19/04

[QC]

1. The law he's referring to was designed to prevent interracial marriages.

Interesting that he would go back to a relic of our racist past to block these marriages.

[ulysses]

3. I was just wondering

if that was where that law came from. This is the kind of shit that needs to be brought out into the light of day - "Romney relies on 91-year-old racist law to fight gay marriage".

[cosmicdot]

2. Impeach Romney

[Disturbed]

4. Weird!

That the racist law is still on the books. If they wanted to the officals could declare all interracial marriages null and void, right?

[Dookus]

5. No

It's not a law against interracial marriages. It's a law that states Massachussetts won't grant licenses for marriages that would be illegal in the recipients' home state.

[QC]

8. It was designed to keep people from states where interracial

marriage was illegal from getting married in Massachusetts, then going home and claiming to be married.

[Dookus]

9. I understand

I was answering a question as to whether Massachussetts could invalidate interracial marriages using this law. they cannot.

[lastknowngood]

6. This asshole must have something embarrassing to hide in his

life. The Gays need to find it out and drive it home. He probably sucks the toes of cub scouts while laying in a vat of jello.

[rebellious woman]

11. A mormon from utah, turned bostonian, is pubbie, now governor and nuts!

[baldguy]

7. Are straight couples required to be residents?

[Dookus]

10. No.

But the law doesn't matter in that case, because straight marriages are legal in all 50 states.