It's about time

The 1913 law designed to avoid issuing marriage licenses to non-resident interracial couples from states where their marriage would be considered illegal and used by the former Governor of Massachusetts to prevent gay couples from anywhere in the US to go to his state and get married, might finally get repealed now that Democrats control both houses and the governorship:

Legislation is expected to be presented in the Massachusetts legislature this session to repeal a 1913 law used to prevent same-sex couples from all states outside the commonwealth, except Rhode Island, from marrying in the state.

Newly elected Senate president Therese Murray (D) said she would support the measure and believes there is enough support for passage. House Speaker Salvatore F. DiMasi (D) and Gov. Deval Patrick (D) both favor repeal.
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The old law, which says marriage licenses cannot be issued to couples whose weddings would be illegal in the states where they lived, was originally passed when interracial marriage was legal in Massachusetts but not in most other parts of the country.

When the US Supreme Court overturned state bans on interracial marriage, the Massachusetts law fell into disuse.

That is, until Romney decided to revive it to attack gays and lesbians and position himself as the righteous man the religious right would love to support in the next presidential election.

Thankfully, the GOP lost the governorship.

I'd love to get a real marriage license someday, maybe during a vacation to the beautiful Provincetown.