YES!!!

[gridlore]

Massachusetts Supreme Court rules: Ban on gay Marriage unconstitutional!

The legislature has 180 days to implement a plan to extend full civil marriage benefits to gay couples in the state. There is hostility to the measure, but unless the GOP can shove a constitutional amendment through in 180 days or less, gay marriage will be the law.

And know what that means? Under Article. IV. Section. 1. of the US Constitution:

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

This has been held up in many court cases to apply explicitly to marriage. So, get married in Mass., and you are married in every state of the Union!

Comments

[aurictech.livejournal.com]

One question I haven't heard addressed anywhere:

What happens if the Massachussets legislature fails to pass something that satisfies the court within the 180 day time limit?

[emiofbrie.livejournal.com]

Then they will have committed contempt of court....

It's happened before...

[murbin.livejournal.com]

A State judge had Thomas Finneran's (Speaker of the House) office furniture seized and sold at auction to pay for a state project that Finneran refused to fund.