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Show I f he UtahStatesman Friday,Mai:Jl 20k jkv Out-of-state gay couples prohibited from marrying in Massachusetts, high court says first marriages in May 2004 ably believe that nonBOSTON (AP) - In a and December 2005. The resident same-sex couples disappointment for the state does not track how primarily are coming to gay rights movement, the many out of state couples this commonwealth to state's highest court ruled were given licenses in marry because they want to Thursday that same-sex Massachusetts. evade the marriage laws of couples from states where Eight gay couples from their home states, and that gay marriage is prohibMassachusetts should not be surrounding states had chalited cannot tie the knot in lenged the 93-year-pld law. encouraging such evasion." Massachusetts. Five of those eight couples The ruling leaves in legal Gov. Mitt Romney, a received marriage licenses limbo an undetermined Republican who is considerin Massachusetts before the number of out-of-state gay ing a run for president in governor ordered city and couples who got married 2008, welcomed the decitown clerks to enforce the in 2004 in Massachusetts sion, saying he did not want 1913 law. when it became the first Massachusetts to become In Thursday's ruling, six state to let gays wed. "the Las Vegas of same-sex justices ruled against the Arline Isaacson of the marriage." gay couples in two separate Massachusetts Gay and The Supreme Judicial opinions. Only one member Lesbian Political Caucus Court upheld a 1913 state of the seven-justice court law that forbids nonresidents called the decision "a painful reminder that we remain dissented. to marry in Massachusetts However, the court sent second-class citizens." if their marriage would not "It's painful to know you'll the cases involving couples be recognized in their home be treated equally under the from Rhode Island and New state. York back to a lower court, law if and only if you hapIf the court had struck saying it was unclear whethdown the law, Massachusetts pen to live here," she said. er those states prohibit "Otherwise, you are comwould have been thrown same-sex marriage. pletely unequal as a gay peropen to gay couples from son." New York's top officials across the country to get have said same-sex marBut the governor said: married. Then they could riage is illegal in the state, have returned to their home "It's important that other states have the right to make although that interpretation states to fight for legal is being challenged. their own determination recognition for those marof marriage and not follow riages. "We do consider ourselves still married," said Amy Massachusetts "has a sig- the wrong course that our Zimmerman, 33, of New nificant interest in not med- Supreme Judicial Court put us on." York City, who has a mardling in matters in which riage license with Tanya another state, the one where According to the Wexler, 35. "There is a a couple actually resides, Registry of Vital Records limbo element to it. We are has a paramount interest," and Statistics, 7,341 gay not exactly sure what is all Justice Francis Spina wrote. couples tied the knot in means yet." Massachusetts between the The state "can reason- AP Photo/'Chime Suzuki MARK PEARSAU OF LEBANON, CONN, speaks during a news conference in Boston, Thursday, March 30,2006, as Pearsall's partner Paul I rubey, center and Mkhele Granda, a staff attorney for Gay & tesbian Advocates & Defenders, GLAD, right, look on. The state's highestcourt ruled Thursday that • same-sex couples from states where gay marriage is banned cannot legally marry in Massachusetts. In arguments before the high court in October, a lawyer for the gay couples said the 1913 law had been unused for decades until it was "dusted off by Romney in an attempt to discriminate against same-sex couples. As for the out-of-state couples who obtained licenses before the law was enforced, the legality of their marriages will have to be determined in their home states on a case-by-case basis, state Attorney General Thomas Reilly said. One justice voted to strike down the 1913 law, saying it was "deeply rooted in discriminatory notions of marriage." Gay rights advocates have argued that the law was aimed at interracial mar- riages. The "resurrection of a moribund statute to deny nonresident same-sex couples access to marriage is not only troubling ... but also fundamentally unfair," Justice Roderick Ireland wrote. "This law has not been enforced for almost 100 years, and certainly never with the vitriol on display." given clothing and plenty of food. "I was allowed to take showers, go to the bathroom when I wanted," she said. They "never hit me, never even threatened to hit me. "I thought I was not free. It was difficult because I didn't know what would happen to me," she told the Baghdad Television interviewer. Her face seemed rounder, perhaps because of months without exercise. The Washington Post reported her saying that she had eaten even when she was not hungry rather than give offense by turning down meals. Carroll emphasized that she had not been harmed. "It's important people know that - that I was not harmed." Her comments Thursday were a marked contrast to videotapes released by the kidnappers to Arab television stations. Carroll wept in a Jan. 30 tape on Al-Jazeera television, and the voiceover of the video said she appealed for authorities to free all women prisoners in Iraq to help win her release. Ten days later, in a video dated Feb. 2 and aired by a private Kuwaiti TV channel, Carroll spoke in a strong voice, saying she had sent a letter to prove she was alive and now was appearing on television for the same purpose. "I am here. I am fine. Please just do whatever they want, give them whatever they want as quickly as possible. There is a very short time. Please do it fast. That's all." Her captors, calling themselves the Revenge Brigades, had demanded the release of all women detainees in Iraq by Feb. 26 and said Carroll would be killed if that didn't happen. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad made an unusual appearance at Thursdays weekly American military briefing and told report- ers he learned of Carroll's release about 1 p.m. "No U.S. person entered into any arrangements with anyone. By U.S. person I mean the United States mission," Khalilzad said. He also said there was no connection between the recent release of several female Iraqi detainees and Carroll's freedom. • CARROLL From page 2 to thank everyone who's spoke by phone. prayed and given us support "She called me because through this time, and we're she remembered my numobviously looking forward to ber. I was dreaming that some private time with Jill." this would be the way I'd find out - that she'd call me President Bush said he in the middle of the night rejoiced at the news. "I'm like this," Katie said, accord- just really grateful she ing to the Monitor. "She was released," he said. He sounded great. I just want thanked those "who worked AP Photo/The Republkon, Bob Stern A "FREE JILL" POSTER IS SEEN on the door of the University of Massachusetts journalism department office in Amherst, Mass., and has been edited to read "Jill is Free" Thursday, March 30,2006, after Jill Carroll was freed in Baghdad, Iraq. Carroll, who grew in Michigan, received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Massachusetts in 1999. Single Student Housing; so hard for her release. I'm glad she's alive." With Carroll's release there are no more foreign journalists held hostage in Iraq, but two Iraqi journalists kidnapped on Feb. 1 are still being held. Carroll was abducted Jan. 7 in Baghdad's western Adil neighborhood while going to interview Sunni Arab politician Adnan al-Dulaimi. Her translator was killed in the attack about 300 yards from al-Dulaimi's office. About 12:15 p.m. Thursday in west Baghdad's Amiriyah neighborhood, Carroll was dropped near a branch office of the Iraqi Islamic Party. Carroll walked into the office, carrying a letter in Arabic from her kidnappers instructing the party to help her. She "introduced herself as Jill Carroll... and gave us a written letter in Arabic that asked the Islamic Party help her," Alaa Maki, a party member, told reporters. Carroll was then taken by an armored car to the party's headquarters, where she was interviewed by the party-owned Baghdad Television and given a copy of the Quran, the Islamic holy book, that appeared to be covered in gold leaf. During her captivity, Carroll said, she was allowed only on one occasion to read a newspaper and watch television, and was largely unaware of what was happening in the outside world. U I was kept in a very good, small safe place, a safe room, nice furniture," she said, adding that she was SAGO M I N E SURVIVOR From page 2 been very, very verbal," said McGee, whose husband has been with the McCloys nonstop since the 26-year-old miner was rescued. "If he saw a crowd before, he would walk around it. But it's not the same now. It's good to see him this way," she said. "Before, he didn't think anybody liked him. He didn't think I liked him, and I'm his sister-inlaw." McCloy has also asked Anna to remarry him, she said, perhaps in a bigger ceremony than the one they had June 30, 2001. "He has a new lease on life," McGee said. McCloy is considered a medical miracle because he survived being exposed to carbon monoxide for so long. . Doctors cannot fully explain why he lived and 12 others died. They also had expected him to spend about six months in therapy, but released him in half that time. "It's still amazing, still astonishing," said Dr. Russell Biundo, medical director at HealthSouth Mountainview Regional Rehabilitation Hospital. "It's basically almost like he was resurrected." McCloy thanks God for his survival. "Because of him, I am here," he said, sitting on a living-room sofa. Anna McCloy said her family was happy to be going home, but remembers the families of the miners who died. "There are 12 families who are in our thoughts and prayers today and every day," she said. In recognition of McCloyls recovery, Gov. Joe Manchin announced the rural road where the McCloys live will be renamed "Miracle Road." He gave green-and-white signs to McCloy and his three key physicians. "We didn't get the 13 miracles we hoped for," Manchin said. "We did get one." My Printing is Done on timer Wireless internet included School Year 'O6-'O7 Male and Female contracts available Prices starting at $1750 Summer Starting at $4-25 777 E. 1000 M. 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