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...state that granted the first marriage licenses to same-sex couples last month, we Massachusetts residents should also hang our heads in shame to live in a state ruled by a governor who has shown an Ahab-like obsession with preventing gays and lesbians from marrying. Gov. W. Mitt Romney sought an emergency stay on the Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling to avoid the day of reckoning that came on May 17. He also joined others in a push for the court to backtrack in favor of civil unions, in which same-sex couples would receive...
...Massachusetts should not become the Las Vegas of same-sex marriage." MITT ROMNEY, Massachusetts Governor, who declared out-of-state couples ineligible for marriage licenses, anticipating a rush of gay couples into his state when same-sex marriage becomes legal there this week...
...unions occurred even as opponents renewed their calls for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and Gov. W. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., pledged to enforce a law preventing out-of-state couples from obtaining licenses in Massachusetts...
Meanwhile, Romney, who opposes gay marriage, yesterday ordered four cities to submit copies of same-sex marriage license applications that may have come from out-of-state couples...
...Romney previously instructed city clerks to enforce a 1913 state law prohibiting non-residents from receiving marriage licenses in Massachusetts if the marriage would not be legal in their home state...