residency for marriage

[Hmph]

ok this article right here confirms the stupidity of the situation in allowing one state to have a set of rules for gay marriages and not others.

say the person IS a resident of massachusettes, and then relocates for job related reasons :redface:. their marriage won't be recognized as legal for whatever beneficial reasons married for in the first place.

and to those flocking there to marry and then going back to their state, what is that saying? we just wanted to go to MA to show others we love each other, because the marriage will be worthless in their home state

http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/10/06/gay.m ... index.html

[miltie]

Was listening to an editorial on NPR a few days ago about this subject.

I don't remember what state they were talking about, but some gays were complaining that they were being discriminated against because their home state (not MA) would not recognize their marriage. The state backed up their claims by saying that they were not discriminating against Gays only, but that there were other types of marriages that were either illegal/not recognized and they gave examples of Marriages to first cousins ( :omg: ) or multiple marriages or bigamy...so I suppose that state had a valid point.

I see it as sort of a double edged sword:

Should non-MA resident gays go ahead and get married there just to show their love and committment (as Tamra mentioned) for their own personal reasons? Perhaps this movement would cause other states to step in line and start recognizing marriages.

Or should non-MA resident gays just say screw it and not go to MA and get married since it is almost a Moot Point? This could be the double edged sword aspect b/c then you would have the other states thinking "Oh, this gay marriage thing isn't really that important afterall, so we're not going to bother making a legistlative decision on it anyway".

Regardless if other states catch on, you know it's going to slowly be the Blue states and a helluva a longer time for the Red States.

[Silly Wabbit]

I agree. It is too confusing. If 1 state has a set of rules regarding same-sex marriage but others don't, does it mean 1 state is wrong & the other is right?

I think 1 final federal decision needs to be made regarding the issue to stop all the state by state petitions & requests 4 certain rights.

I personally would like to know when same-sex couples became the only other alternative lifestyle that deserves extra rights. I think single working mothers with deadbeat dads should get additional tax rights & benefits.

Not just mothers having kids with man after man or a hoodrat mother who hooked up with an irresponsible hoodrat. But a single working mother or father of a former committed relationship & the other has chosen to dodge responsibility.

Same sex issues also seem like taxes are @ the heart of the issue. So rewrite tax laws to equally represent ev'yone.

[Makewayz]

Even though I am a man who beds other men ... I would not get married to a man. I just don't feel like I could do that. This lifestyle poses so many discriminations, I almost wish I had never acted upon the curiosity.