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Is Romney going to undo inter-racial marriages in Mass. too?



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I wonder how many inter-racial marriages took place in Massachusettts prior to June, 1967, the date the Supreme Court ruled that state bans on inter-racial marriages were unconstitutional? If prior to that date Massachusetts conducted marriages for inter-racial couples who were from states that banned inter-racial marriage, then those marriages would have been invalid in Massachusetts, and thus those folks aren't married. Sure, the Supreme Court now says the ban was unconstitutional, but that's not the point. The point is that at the time the marriages happened, they were not legal marriages under the law of Massachusetts, thus those people are not married today unless they had another ceremony. Perhaps some some smart young whipper-snapper in Massachusetts should start reviewing those marriages as well - all in the interest of upholding the law as Mr. Romney is asking us to do, of course.


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