Deval Says Gay is OK

The Globe reported today that Deval Patrick was reversing an order by former Governor Mitt Romey and would allow 26 couples to have their marriages to be recorded in Massachusetts. A 1913 law which stated that those couples whose marriage was specifically outlawed in their state of residence could not marry in Massachusetts was used by the Romney administration – and withheld by a State Supreme Court decision – precluded the couples marriages from being recorded in Massachusetts.

Deval Patrick indicated that he felt the decision to use the 1913 law to exclude the couples from marrying in Massachusetts was discriminatory. The couples had all obtained marriage licenses in the Commonwealth by cities and towns that had disobeyed the order supported by Romney and the then Attorney General Tom Reiley. Being one of the few states in the country that will recognize same sex marriages, Massachusetts has a unique role in preserving the liberties of same sex couples to have the rights and priviledges afforded to opposite sex couples. According to the AP report:

Patrick's chief legal counsel Ben Clemens on Friday instructed the commissioner of the Department of Public Health John Auerbach to "bind and index" those marriages.

”Bind and index” sounds like a great title for a new porn flick. However it's just the latest legalese handed down from the governor to allow out of state same sex couples to benefit from the marriage laws of the Commonwealth.

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