Court rules Massachusetts can ban non-resident gay marriages

Ruling applies to people from states that ban gay marriage. You may recall that the law the court upheld was passed to prevent, gasp, blacks and whites from marrying.

Blue Mass Group discussion.

Mass Marrier says the decision doesn't require discrimination, only that it gives the state the right to block such marriages:

... So, it looks like a governor and attorney general with courage and a sense of honor could order it not enforced and ask the General Court to get this abomination off the books.

Chris Cagle on Left Center Left says the ruling is not necessarily a bad thing:

... [O]ne of the big arguments for gay marriage has been that there are all sorts of material benefits (and responsibilities) that inhere to the right of marriage, that it's not merely symbolic gesture. Setting up a cottage industry for marriage-in-name-only for out-of-staters flies in the face of that. ...

Domenico Bettinelli calls the ruling a surprising defeat for the pro-gay marriage crowd.

Aaron Margolis ponders a wave of gay immigration:

... By telling same-sex couples, "hey, you want to get married here, you have to live here," could spark waves of gay immigration into Massachusetts--the only problem is they will be driven out in short order once they get their tax bills and find out that there aren't any jobs available because businesses fled to the very states the same-sex couples just came from because of the huge cost of running a business here in the Commonwealth. ...