massachusetts safe from pink terror
BOSTON (AP) — State lawmakers have voted to let gay couples from other states get married in Massachusetts as soon as Gov. Deval Patrick signs the bill into law.
The house voted Tuesday to repeal a 1913 law that had blocked gay marriages from out-of-state couples.
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from The Boston Globe, June 17, 1913:
MASSACHUSETTS SAFE FROM PINK TERROR.
Senator is mocked for preposterous Notion that Massachusetts may harbour homo-sexuals.
By overwhelming margin, our Proud State Legislators yesterday passed into Law a Bill meant to eternally ensure that that Vicious Vice known Scientifically as Homo-sexuality & popularly as Manshafting or Chapbuggery, will never find a foothold on the shores of this, Our Most Esteemed & Beloved State of the Bay.
The Law makes clear that marriages of out-of-state like-gendered deviants will by no measure be accepted or tolerated within Massachusetts.
“We have passed this Law precisely in time” stated Sen. Chasworth P. Hollingschad, of the Prominent Beacon Hill Hollingschads. “Any day now, one of those newer, immoral states could attempt to Legitimize the Sin of Homo-sexuality. I am thinking specifically of those Paganic Polygamists in Utah.”
A minor hubbub was caused on the floor during discussion of the Bill, when Sen. Adamiah P. Dunster of the Dunstershire Dunsters pointed out that as written, the Law defends against only out-of-state homo-sexualism, & is moot on the subject of matrimony amongst homo-sexuals native to Massachusetts. Upon making such a remark, Sen. Dunster was laughed quite nearly out of the Capitol building by his Colleagues.
“Our City on the Hill runs thick with Right Puritan Blood” explained Sen. Hollingschad with appropriate Smugness. “And even the Irish Papist mongrels that currently flood our city have more sense than to promote ladslamming.”
The Senator continued: “Suggesting that Massachusetts may someday have homo-sexuals amongst its own citizenry is like to suggesting that fair Harvard College will someday be anything other than an Ivory Bastion of our most Cherished Conservative Values. Or that a Papist could someday be President.
“Whether homo-sexuality is promoted by other states in One Year or One Hundred, rest Safe Assured that Massachusetts will not rank in that Godless number.
“At least, not as one of the very first states to legalize it, certainly.
“Also, we will never elect a Mormon as Governor. For the Record.
“Those are just not things that will ever happen.”
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