On the last day of July the governor of Massachusetts signed into law a bill overturning a 1913 law banning out of state marriages (from states were a couple’s marriages were deemed illegal –intended for interracial couples). Normally, enacting a new law does not take effect for 90 days, but Massachusetts will allow this law to take place immediately, and eastern US gay couples who want to be married do not have to travel all the way to California to do so.

California is the only other state where gay couples can marry, and it has no restrictions on race, religion, sexual preference, or what state you live in. Unfortunately, that could come to a halt in the November elections as gay marriage was not made by law but by a court order. The California legislature has passed such a law twice, and twice the governor has refused to sign it. Now the governor is supporting voting in favor of gay marriage on the November ballot after twice vetoing it. What must it be like to live in the mind of a politician?

Gay couples living along the border with Canada can slip over "the longest unguarded boarder in the world" and marry in that lovely, enlightened country.