Rejoice and Be Gay
Massachusetts finally got its act together about something and repealed that law from 1913 that prohibited couples from marrying in the Commonwealth if their union would not be legal in their home state. (Though I gotta tell ya, I’m curious who those 36 assholes are who voted against.) This law was originally intended to prevent interracial couples from marrying here, which tells you a lot about the statue’s value. And mostly, it was pretty much forgotten about, just like all those other goofy laws like “no lady may walk her leashed moose on a street on tuesday mornings” or “it shall be illegal to dance without shoes in any yard not enclosed by a fence”, until The Gays were allowed to marry and Governor Crazypants decided this particular goofy law applied to them.
Technically, the law’s repeal is not official until Governor Patrick signs off on it, but he already said he wanted to so that seems like a no-brainer.
Let the Massachusetts economy flourish with the massive influx of wedded unigendered couples! Or something.
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