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[Article] Row over plan to let gays wed

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  • 12-05-2004 6:21pm
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    ixoy
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    From today's Irish Independent :
    JUST days before America is due to witness the issuing for the first time of bona fide marriage certificates to same-sex couples, a legal stand-off has developed in the state of Massachusetts, where the gay weddings were set to begin.

    Officials in Provincetown, for many years a Mecca for gay tourists on the very tip of Cape Cod, have said they will ignore an edict from the Republican governor of the state, Mitt Romney, demanding that only gay couples resident in Massachusetts be allowed to wed.

    The town, following a vote by its Board of Selectmen on Monday, has determined that it will welcome gay couples from across the country, regardless of what state they live in. The only condition is that they declare they are aware of no impediment to bar them from joining in wedlock.

    The action of the town is certain to inflame the nationwide debate over gay marriage that erupted when the Supreme Court of Massachusetts ruled last year that denying the right of same-sex couples to join in fully-fledged wedlock violates the constitution.

    Provincetown is braced for an invasion of gay couples in time for Monday, the date on which the Supreme Court said same-sex weddings should be permitted.

    But officials there may face fines and even prison for ignoring the governor, who says he is basing his residency condition on a 1913 law.

    Got to hand it to the state of Massachusetts for trying to be so progressive. Once again though they face the backhand of America's conservative ruling elite. Be interesting to see if we have another San Francisco situation on our hands.


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    MarcusGarvey
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    The Mass. Governor is a wanker to put it plainly but the Courts obviously are forward thinkers. The Governor's banning of couples from other states is using a law that was used early in the 1900s to stop interracial couples from coming to the state to wed. "Yeah, let's bring back our nigger hating law but this time aimed at the queers" is what he is actually preaching.

    Says it all really.

    It's going ahead though despite him and numerous "please think of the children" type catholic groups who are bringing about last minute straw-grasping lawsuits.

    I'd love to be there on the day it becomes legal. Would be great to walk up to one of those silent majority types and say "Welcome to pandemonium, want to be my bitch ?"


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