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topazThanks to mizarchivist for reminding me about this. The MA state senate is voting today on whether to repeal the 1913 anti-miscegenation law. Folks, please let your state senator know that you oppose this law and want to see it repealed (use the MA Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus's contact tool for maximum convenience).
In 2003, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry, marriage opponents dredged up a 1913 law that prohibits out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriages would be illegal in their home state. The original law was passed to prohibit interracial couples from marrying, of course, was all but forgotten by this time and should have been repealed decades ago, but that didn't stop Mitt Romney and Tom Finneran from using it to its most shameful effect here. Help put an end to it.
In 2003, when the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the state must allow same-sex couples to marry, marriage opponents dredged up a 1913 law that prohibits out-of-state couples from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriages would be illegal in their home state. The original law was passed to prohibit interracial couples from marrying, of course, was all but forgotten by this time and should have been repealed decades ago, but that didn't stop Mitt Romney and Tom Finneran from using it to its most shameful effect here. Help put an end to it.
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Date: 2008-07-15 08:40 pm (UTC)