Somerville and gay marriage

[georgy.livejournal.com]

According to WBZ-AM 1030 this morning, Somerville is going to be one of the town's that doesn't give a rat's ass about residency come May 17 and the legalization of gay marriage, joining the ranks of P-town and Cambridge (Boston seems to have wussed out). So people can come and get married with no questions or hassle.

Hooray!

Comments

[12stringsamurai.livejournal.com]

probably not... I'm not really a law expert myself (although I used to work as an engineer for a GLBT Talk Radio show so I've picked up on alot of the recent jargon). I'm pretty sure what would happen would be a couple would have to have is a marriage certificate that is recognized in MA and not in NJ, and whatever the equivalent proof of "domestic partnership" is that is recognized in NJ but not in MA.

Confused yet? I sure am... personally, I still think that the state and federal government should get out of the marriage business altogether. Either give NO ONE "mariage" licenses and give everyone "domestic partnership" (or whatver terminonogy you want to use) licenses (which I feel will probably be what ends up happenings somewhere down the road anyways) or make a definitive statement reminding the world that "civil marriage" and "marriage" are two entirely different states of being. It doesn't seem logical for the gornment to be involved in defending the "sanctity" of something.

I mean... would you really want your state senator to be involved in deciding what is and is not "sacred?"

wow.... I didn't mean to rant there on your thread. You might want to ask the state of NJ how it would deal with that, though (I might myself, now that my interest is peaked).

[betra.livejournal.com]

LOL

Actually I can't say I disagree. In my mind Marriage is religiously based. Therefore everyone should be considered in a Domestic Partnership and if they then want the religious tag also, they can have it but it should only apply to religious things, not FEDERAL or STATE LAW.

NJ is pretty liberal all things considered.

I would like to see everyone placed on a legally equal footing though. It is not like gay parents love their kids less, and in some cases might be better at the job.

[12stringsamurai.livejournal.com]

yeah... on a similar note, in a country where approx 50% of marriages fail anyways I don't think we have any real moral authority to tell people "no, you aren't allowed to have a committed monogamous relationship."

[betra.livejournal.com]

Amen!