Massachusetts gay marriage decision on 1913 law delayed
· Massachusetts: The state's highest court announced that their decision regarding out-of-state same-sex couples being allowed to marry there has been delayed and it would be weeks, possibly months before a decision. The court will not be meeting its 130-day self-imposed deadline for ruling on a challenge to the 1913 law that prevents clerks from issuing marriage licenses to people from states where that marriage would be illegal. You probably recall, but in case you don't, the nearly hundred-year-old law, previously ignored for decades, was written when most states did not recognize interracial marriage. After the US Supreme Court ruled that laws barring interracial couples from marrying was illegal the Massachusetts statute fell into disuse.
· Iowa: Governor Tom Vilsack says he supports allowing civil unions in the state, noting that the Legislature would never pass civil unions.
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