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In a further sign that pro same-sex “marriage” judges are beginning to grasp the havoc their arrogance has reaped on our nation’s politics, the same court that legalized same-sex “marriage” in Mass. has ruled against extending that decision to out-of-state couples:

The court that made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage ruled Thursday that same-sex couples from other states cannot marry here.

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled in a challenge to a 1913 state law that forbids nonresidents from marrying in Massachusetts if their marriage would not be recognized in their home state.

“The laws of this commonwealth have not endowed nonresidents with an unfettered right to marry,” the court wrote in its 38-page opinion. “Only nonresident couples who come to Massachusetts to marry and intend to reside in this commonwealth thereafter can be issued a marriage license without consideration of any impediments to marriage that existed in their former home states.”

Eight gay couples from surrounding states, including two from Connecticut, challenged the law after they were denied marriage licenses in Massachusetts when they tried to wed after the state became the first to allow same-sex marriages in May 2004.

[Update: Peter Wolfgang will be appearing on channel 30 at 5:30 and Fox 61’s News At 10 to discuss the Mass. ruling.]