The Fight For Gay Divorces
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.
December 10, 2007 - 07:03 AM on December 10th, 2007
Let those couple who got “married” in Massachusetts and San Francisco go back there to get divorced.