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Sep 30, 2006
Articles: Rhode Island Gay Couples Can Marry In Massachusetts
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By VZ
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(Boston, Massachusetts, USA) A Boston judge has ruled that a Massachusetts law forbidding out-of-state residents from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriage would not be permitted in their home state does not apply to Rhode Island. Superior Court Judge Thomas Connolly said that Rhode Island does not specifically ban gay marriage.
The law was enacted in 1913 when most states did not recognize interracial marriage. After the US Supreme Court ruled that laws barring interracial couples from marrying was illegal the Massachusetts statute fell into disuse.
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