For 95 years, Massachusetts has declined to provide marriage licenses to couples who can't legally wed in their home states — which includes most same-sex couples.
Now it looks like that 1913 law — which was upheld by the state's highest court just two years ago — will be repealed, pushing gay "marriage" on the entire nation.
The state Senate voted Tuesday to repeal the law; the House is expected to vote soon. Gov. Deval Patrick has indicated he will sign the legislation.
"The Massachusetts Senate has no right to infringe on the internal issues of how other states define marriage, but that's exactly what they voted to do," Kris Mineau, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, told The Associated Press.
In their push to export same-sex "marriage," Patrick and other Democrats are calling the 1913 law racist; pro-family state senators have received threats of being labeled "racist" if they express support for the law.
The law dates to a time when the majority of states outlawed interracial marriages. Massachusetts has allowed interracial marriages since 1843, according to The AP. The state Supreme Court, which upheld the law in 2006, did not mention race in its opinion:
"The Commonwealth also has a significant interest in not meddling in matters in which another State, the one where a couple actually resides, has a paramount interest.
"Massachusetts can reasonably believe that nonresident same-sex couples primarily are coming to this Commonwealth to marry because they want to evade the marriage laws of their home States, and that Massachusetts should not be encouraging such evasion."
Mineau said he knows the real motive behind the repeal effort.
“There’s no justification for repealing this law other than to placate the homosexual agenda," he said.
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