SJC upholds law barring out-of-state gay couples from marriage

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2006/03/high_court_upho_1.html

"In an eagerly awaited landmark decision, the state's highest court ruled today that Governor Mitt Romney and Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly had the authority to invoke a 1913 state law that Massachusetts used to block out-of-state gay couples from marrying here when same-sex marriage became legal in 2004.

The Supreme Judicial Court upheld the 1913 law when it was used to block same sex-couples from Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont, because gay marriage is prohibited in those states."- Jonathon Saltzman, The Boston Globe, 30 Mar 2006