The state not only does not permit same-sex marriages, it doesn't recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. So it doesn't have jurisdiction to grant the divorce. This (http://www.asil.org/insigh111.cfm) does a pretty decent job of explaining why.
What I'm curious about is, those places don't recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. You get gay married in Massachusetts, Virginia don't give a shit, and won't divorce you because it doesn't consider you married in the first place. Suppose you then get straight married in Virginia. At what point do you become guilty of bigamy? Instantly, but only in states that recognize the Massachusetts marriage? As soon as you enter a state that does recognize the Massachusetts marriage?
So, what if you got married as an opposite-sex couple, and then one of you had a sex change? Would your marriage suddenly be invalid? Would you still be married, but no longer be able to get divorced? Probably the former.
/straight married and soon to be gay divorced /loves Canada
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Date: 2009-09-22 08:48 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-22 09:00 pm (UTC)The state not only does not permit same-sex marriages, it doesn't recognize same-sex marriages performed elsewhere. So it doesn't have jurisdiction to grant the divorce. This (http://www.asil.org/insigh111.cfm) does a pretty decent job of explaining why.
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Date: 2009-09-22 09:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-22 10:48 pm (UTC)This is why comity exists. Fucking homophobes.
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Date: 2009-09-22 10:57 pm (UTC)(but not enough to gay!marry you)
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Date: 2009-09-23 01:16 pm (UTC)/straight married and soon to be gay divorced
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