Massachusetts Senate votes to allow out-of-state gays to marry
This is one of the most pernicious statutes on our books…. This bill puts the final nail in the coffin of those dark days.”
Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson, a Democrat and the government branch’s only black member, remarking on the Senate’s vote to repeal the arcane, racist law that was used by then Governor Mitt Romney to deny same-sex couples from coming in to the state to be married since it is not legal for gays to be married anywhere in the USA (California recently excepted, of course). (Time.com)
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