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gridloreMassachusetts 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!
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!
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Yes, but this is Massachusetts
Date: 19 Nov 2003 11:30 (UTC)He does this by either funding programs that were supposed to have ended or withholding funding from programs he doesn't like. Both houses of the state Legislature is veto proof (with overrides locked in), so he can push through just about anything he wants.
He has been a long time opponent of this type of law, has however said that he will "allow the state House to vote on it."
It will be interesting to see how it plays out, since the gay community is very well organized in the Commonwealth and even the governor (a Mormon) is for civil unions that give full legal rights.