Same-Sex 'Marriage'
By Chuck Colson
5/30/2007

Judicial Activism Knows No Borders

Three years ago, Fred Davie and Michael Adams were “married” in Lowell, Massachusetts, following that state’s Goodrich decision, which created a right to same-sex “marriage.” But that didn’t settle the matter for Davie and Adams.

That’s because, like many other couples who availed themselves of the Goodrich decision, they aren’t residents of Massachusetts. They live in New York, whose highest court explicitly declined to follow the Massachusetts court’s example. They ruled that marriage was a matter for the state legislature.

So that means that the pair isn’t married, right? Well, not necessarily.

Last year, the Massachusetts court ruled (based on a 1913 law) that the state could deny marriage licenses to out-of-state couples if their marriages were “expressly prohibited” in their home state. the rest