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[mmcirvin]

The Massachusetts state Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the 1913 ban on marriages by out-of-staters whose marriages would not be legal in their home jurisdictions. The repeal probably won't pass the House or the governor's veto, though. Several towns will undoubtedly keep issuing licenses to out-of-staters for now, but Romney is threatening court orders. (I have a feeling that some more fun litigation is ahead, especially as regards Rhode Island.)

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[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Thanks, Matt.

All the more reason to stick to the new plan.

Moving to MA is a good idea.

But of course they are all vague about enforcement. If one checks the intent to move box on the form, the state could theoretically check to see whether the move actually happened, but how frequently they would check is as uncodified as whether they would check.

Romney seems like the kind of governor who would round up the applications and check.

There are a multitude of non-marriage reasons to move to MA. For example, most of the job opportunities coming down the pike (haha) for bunnyohare are in MA. Also, our current landlord has really stepped up the pace of rental increases, to the point that it may soon become no cheaper to live here than to live in some MA towns.

[chicken-cem.livejournal.com]

Also, a lawyer from GLAD has contacted us about our plans, and there is a public forum that GLAD is holding next Wednesday in some church in Providence to answer the publics' questions (or at least some of them).