by Hilary White
BOSTON, March 30, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has ruled today that the Governor and State Attorney General were justified in using a little-remembered 1913 law to prevent out-of-state homosexual couples from “marrying” in the state.
The highest court in the state ruled that homosexuals from Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont could not take advantage of the Massachusetts law because homosexual “marriage” is not recognized in those states.
The Court said the State was not overstepping its bounds in invoking the law. The statute says, “No marriage shall be contracted in this commonwealth by a party residing and intending to continue to reside in another jurisdiction if such marriage would be void if contracted in such other jurisdiction, and every marriage contracted in this commonwealth in violation hereof shall be null and void.”