Marriage Still More Equal
I still feel the excitement, particularly since we live much closer to Massachusetts than to California, being on the right coast of the US. Anyway, you may recall that same-sex marriage, although legal in Massachusetts, was restricted to those couples for whom marriage would be legal in their home states. This was a parting gift from the former governor whose name need not be mentioned here since it will sink into the mud of history.
The barrier was a law passed in 1913 to help prevent miscegenation in that state. Recently there was a surge of interest in the Massachusetts legislature to repeal that law, they did it, and today the governor signed the repeal.
The apparent reason for this sudden breakthrough is economic jealousy of California, the arriviste of marriage equality where out-of-state couples where not barred from getting legally married and spending lots of money in that state. As reported in the article linked above
A state study estimates that more than 30,000 out-of-state gay couples – most of them from New York – will wed in Massachusetts over the next three years. That would boost the state’s economy by $111 million and create 330 jobs, the study estimated.
Word is spreading among fiscally sensitive officials in other states that there's good money to be had in marriage equality to those who get there first.
Isn't it a good bit of fun if the impetus for widespread adoption of marriage equality happens sooner than conservatives would like because of the economic hard times caused by Republican "economic theories" of wealth redistribution to the already wealthy?