SJC Tries To Bring People To Massachusetts
by Aaron Margolis, March 30th, 2006 at 12:55pm
In an interesting ruling, our Supreme Judicial Court said that same-sex couples from beyond the borders of the Bay State can not come here to get married.
The state’s highest court, which made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage, ruled Thursday that same-sex couples from other states cannot marry here.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a challenge to a 1913 state law that forbids non-residents from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriage would not be recognized in their home state.
Perhaps this is the SJC’s way of trying to bring people back to Massachusetts. By telling same-sex couples, “hey, you want to get married here, you have to live here,” could spark waves of gay immigration into Massachusetts–the only problem is they will be driven out in short order once they get their tax bills and find out that there aren’t any jobs available because businesses fled to the very states the same-sex couples just came from because of the huge cost of running a business here in the Commonwealth.
Ah, the circle of life.
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