Just as gay marriage is going nowhere fast comes news that Rhode Island will not grant a divorce to a lesbian couple that was married in Massachusetts:
The 3-to-2 ruling was viewed by advocates of gay marriage as a setback and by those who oppose the recognition of same-sex unions as an act of wisdom.
The court concluded that a key 1961 Rhode Island law defines marriage as an legal union between a man and a woman, not same-sex couples. Unless and until the Legislature changes the wording, same-sex couples married in Massachusetts cannot get divorced in Rhode Island family courts, it said.
Let those couple who got “married” in Massachusetts and San Francisco go back there to get divorced.