On 3 Oct 2006 05:55:40 -0700, "bobandcarole."
<bobandcarole201@hotmail.com> wrote in alt.atheism

R.I. attorney general: 'gay marriages' won't be recognized
Oct 2, 2006

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)--Rhode Island's attorney general said Sept. 29
that "gay marriages" in Massachusetts would not be recognized in Rhode
Island, despite a ruling by a Massachusetts judge that liberalized the
Bay State's marriage law.

The bigot has no choice but to accept them.

You fucking bigots are invited to sit on a roughed out iron cross and
rotate.

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On 2006-10-03, bobandcarole. <bobandcarole201@hotmail.com> wrote:

Despite Lynch's statement, a lawsuit in Rhode Island now could be on
the horizon, with a same-sex couple from Rhode Island getting "married"
in Massachusetts and then returning to their home state and suing for
recognition of the license.

Well, why sue for something when you can scramble it? Sally and
Jane live in Mass and get married. Then their jobs relocate to
Rhode Island and find that they're not married. Oh well, Sally
marries Ted and Jane marries Bob. But, again, their job relocates
both couples back to Mass, where Sally files state tax forms with
two spouses. And where Bob tries to take Jane to divorce court.

DOMA does not protect Massachusetts from the full faith and credit
clause in terms of recognizing the opposite-sex marriage.

--
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
~George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

bobandcarole. schrieb:

R.I. attorney general: 'gay marriages' won't be recognized
Oct 2, 2006

In case you haven't realized, you're also posting your homoerotic
fantasies to alt.atheism.

Obviously, your obsessed with your latent homosexuality, otherwise you
wouldn't spend so much time writing about it.
Why don't you get out of the closet?

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP)--Rhode Island's attorney general said Sept. 29
that "gay marriages" in Massachusetts would not be recognized in Rhode
Island, despite a ruling by a Massachusetts judge that liberalized the
Bay State's marriage law.

In a decision Sept. 29, Massachusetts trial court Judge Thomas E.
Connolly ruled that same-sex couples from Rhode Island could "marry" in
Massachusetts. Couples from the other 48 states remain barred from
acquiring marriage licenses.

Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly, a Democrat, said the ruling
would not be appealed, but Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick Lynch
said the decision would not impact Rhode Island law.

"This ruling does not authorize same-sex marriages in Rhode Island, and
it does not mean that Rhode Island will recognize a same-sex marriage
performed in Massachusetts," Lynch, a Democrat, said in a statement.
"As I have consistently explained, only the Rhode Island legislature or
a Rhode Island court can decide if a same-sex marriage is valid in
Rhode Island."

In a nine-page decision, Connolly noted that Rhode Island has no
constitutional amendment, law or court ruling expressly banning "gay
marriage."

"Upon consideration of the parties' oral arguments and submitted
memoranda, this court determines that same-sex marriage is not
prohibited in Rhode Island," Connolly wrote.

The ruling stems from a 2004 lawsuit by Gay & Lesbian Advocates &
Defenders (GLAD) on behalf of same-sex couples from Connecticut, Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Rhode Island seeking marriage
licenses in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has used a 1913 law to prevent
an out-of-state couple from "marrying" if the license would not be
recognized in the couple's home state.

While the highest court in Massachusetts ruled against most of the
couples in March, it allowed the lawsuits by the New York and Rhode
Island couples to proceed in a lower court. In July, New York's highest
court refused to legalize "gay marriage," leaving a Rhode Island
lesbian couple as the only ones involved in the Massachusetts case.

Despite Lynch's statement, a lawsuit in Rhode Island now could be on
the horizon, with a same-sex couple from Rhode Island getting "married"
in Massachusetts and then returning to their home state and suing for
recognition of the license. On its website, Marriage Equality Rhode
Island, a homosexual group, urged its supporters to contact Rhode
Island Gov. Donald L. Carcieri and tell him that "Rhode Islanders
support this decision." Carcieri, a Republican, opposes "gay marriage."

At the very least, homosexual activists now will intensify their lobby
in the Rhode Island legislature to pass a "gay marriage" bill. More
than 100 "gay marriage supporters" gathered in Providence Sept. 29 to
celebrate the decision.

"[W]hile this decision is a major victory today, our next victory will
be when we can get married in our own backyard," said Tony Carpaco, a
homosexual activist who is "married" to the co-chair of Marriage
Equality Rhode Island. Carpaco was quoted on the website of Edge
Boston, which specializes in homosexual news.