[Happy2BMe]

"Article V. All causes of marriage, divorce, and alimony, and all appeals from the judges of probate shall be heard and determined by the governor and council, until the legislature shall, by law, make other provision."

Are you trying to say the Mass gubner and legislature will get the last verdict in the matter?

[Redmen4ever]

The Massachusetts legislature should move to amend the Massachusetts constitution. The ruling is not based on the federal constitution, but on one of those penumbras that the liberal judges of that state found in the state constitution. If the ruling were based on the federal constitution's equal protection clause, or some other part of the federal constitution, then the state court's interpretation of the federal constitution could be appealed to a federal court. As it is, this is a state issue.

Regarding full faith and credit, I believe a fair rendering of full faith and credit is this: If person who is married under the laws of one state is traveling through another state, then the laws of that person's state of domicile should apply. For example, if a person married under the laws of Massachusetts were to be in a car accident while driving through Virginia, Virginia should respect the next of kin as determined by that person's domicile. But, if that person takes up residence in another state, the laws of the new state apply.

[angkor]

Are you trying to say the Mass gubner and legislature will get the last verdict in the matter?

What I'm reading in the Mass. Constitution is that only the guv and legislature have a verdict in the matter, and that the judiciary has none whatsoever.