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From an email sent out by Mass Equality to its members:
"By a vote of 118 to 35, Massachusetts House passed legislation this afternoon repealing the 1913 law, which prevents out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying here if they could not marry in their home state. The legislation was passed by the Senate earlier this month and is expected to be signed by Governor Patrick in short order."
Concretly, this means any gay couple will soon be able to marry in MA, not just gay couples who live in MA. That's already the case in California.
The 1913 law in question, btw, was the remains of anti-miscegenation laws which forbid interracial couples from getting married in most states at the beginning of the century in the U.S. (and for a number of states, this lasted until 1967 and the Supreme Court ruling Loving v. Virginia). And most people still don't see the parallels...
That was your mandatory political message from Mexico!
"By a vote of 118 to 35, Massachusetts House passed legislation this afternoon repealing the 1913 law, which prevents out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying here if they could not marry in their home state. The legislation was passed by the Senate earlier this month and is expected to be signed by Governor Patrick in short order."
Concretly, this means any gay couple will soon be able to marry in MA, not just gay couples who live in MA. That's already the case in California.
The 1913 law in question, btw, was the remains of anti-miscegenation laws which forbid interracial couples from getting married in most states at the beginning of the century in the U.S. (and for a number of states, this lasted until 1967 and the Supreme Court ruling Loving v. Virginia). And most people still don't see the parallels...
That was your mandatory political message from Mexico!
