Mass. Ruling Creates Gay Legal Limbo

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Massachusetts' highest court, which in 2003 legalized gay marriage, has put some out-of-state couples in legal limbo.

The Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday upheld a 1913 state law that bars nonresidents from marrying here if their union would not be permitted at home. (story)

But Christopher McCary and John Sullivan, one of the first gay couples married in the Massachusetts, said they still consider themselves married, even if Thursday's ruling means they're just two guys living in the same house in Alabama, which does not recognize their union.

"It really doesn't change anything," said McCary, an attorney in Anniston, Ala. "We're like everybody else. He has two jobs, I have one and we both work all the time."