Posted on 06/15/2007 6:48:29 AM PDT by Andy'smom
No it won’t.
We're one Supreme Court decision away from making it so. While Massachusetts has so far refused to marry any out-of-state homosexual couples, we haven't had (to my knowledge) a case of a MA couple getting legally married in that state, then moving to another state, where they will demand that their marriage be recognized under FF&C. When that case gets to the SCOTUS, then the ball game is over.
The voters in MA had some level of sanity left until 2006. They wanted at some semblance of fiscal conservativeness left which is why they elected a Republican Governor. Now a Republican in MA (other than Romney) is strictly a RINO and a clone of Arnold. They were socially liberal and fiscally on the middle. However even that check and balance has gone and it is in your face full fledged liberalism because they have no fear of losing any election ever again.
The GOP has given up in this state and no good candidate will subject themselves to the futility of running as a Republican. The winner of the democrat primary is the default winner of the general election.
“While Massachusetts has so far refused to marry any out-of-state homosexual couples,”
Rhode Island gay couples are getting married here because their attorney general gave the okay. Rhode Island has no marriage protection law so that state will be the next to fall, no doubt.
That’s an individual state making a decision to accept another state’s procedure. That can always be reversed by a different leadership in that particular state. A Supreme Court decision striking down a state Constitutional ban on same-sex marriage would strike down all such state bans.
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