Gay marriages blocked by Romney recorded

[shawmut]

Source: AP

BOSTON - Massachusetts' governor ordered state officials to record the marriages of 26 out-of-state gay couples whose unions were blocked by his predecessor, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

"I think that the previous administration was using a gimmick to make what I feel was a discriminatory point," Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, said in announcing the move. "It's a simple gesture to include the information on the register. Keeping it out was the gimmick."

Registering the marriages in Massachusetts' vital records won't change the legal marriage status of the couples in their home states.

About 8,000 same-sex couples have wed in Massachusetts since the Supreme Judicial Court ruled in 2003 that the state Constitution guarantees gays the right to marry. A few other states offer civil unions with similar rights for gay couples, but only Massachusetts allows gay marriage.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_on_re_us/gay_marriage

[salin]

1. Governor Patrick is erasing Romney's record. Congrats

to those couples whose status is now registered.

[central scrutinizer]

2. Doonesbury has been all over Mitt this week

[xchrom]

3. lol -- i like the way deval has of sticking it to mitt.