Last October, I wrote about Massachusetts as the Las Vegas of homosexual marriage (paraphrasing former governor Mitt Romney).
Governor Deval Patrick, who was running for governor and promised to appease the homosexual lobby if elected, has made his first move. He recently “ordered state officials to record the marriages of 26 out-of-state gay couples,” which then-Governor Romney refused to recognize.
About 8,000 same-sex couples have wed in Massachusetts since the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2003 that the state Constitution guarantees gays the right to marry. A few other states offer civil unions with similar rights for gay couples, but only Massachusetts allows gay marriage…Last spring, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that Romney could use a 1913 law to prohibit out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their home states explicitly prohibit same-sex marriage…The 26 couples affected by Patrick’s decision had obtained marriage licenses in four towns where clerks defied Romney’s order not to issue marriage licenses to out-of-state gay couples.
