Mass. Governor seeks to nullify out-of-state marriages

BOSTON - Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts began cracking down Thursday on same-sex marriages by out-of-state couples, taking steps to invalidate their marriage licenses and asking the attorney general to consider taking action against the cities that issued them.

Earlier this week, as gay marriage became legal in the state, Romney's administration demanded copies of marriage license applications from four cities and towns that were defying the governor by issuing licenses to out-of-state couples.

On Thursday, the governor said he had received the applications from two communities, Provincetown and Springfield, and found 10 out-of-state marriage applications that the state would not record, effectively nullifying those marriages. Out-of-state applications from the other two cities, Somerville and Worcester, would be treated the same way, he said.

"We certainly won't record on our public health records marriages that are on the face of them not consistent with the law," Romney said at a news conference, his first public appearance since same-sex marriages began on Monday. (source)

Nothing new here, but it continues to amaze me how Massachusetts has ended up with a governor who is such a homophobic bigot. I can understand fully that it goes against his religious beliefs (he is Mormon), but let it go already!

People have dealt with it. Gay couples have been married. The sky didn't fall. Hell did raise up and engulf the Earth. The more he picks away at this, the more he looks like an intolerant moron. If I were on his staff, I would tell him that it's time to accept this and move on. Doesn't Massachusetts have more pressing issues to deal with?