Illinois straight couple marries in Mass. to show gay support

Talk about straight allies:

[Kaethe] Hoffer and [Matt] Morris are a straight couple from Evanston, Illinois, who fit the “oddly passionate about gay rights” bill. So much so that when the two got hitched in 1999, they opted not to make their union legal. Although they had a big, beautiful church wedding, they never applied for an actual marriage license because they object to what they call the “discriminatory application of the laws.” They liken the existing ban on gay marriage to the anti-miscegenation laws that prohibited interracial marriage decades ago. And they won’t support a law that treats gay and straight people differently.

“By discriminating against gay men and lesbians,” says Hoffer, a lawyer by training, “the law undermines its own integrity.”

But last Friday, she and her husband finally made their marriage legal–in Boston. When the state Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry last November, Hoffer and Morris thought about flying to Massachusetts to get a marriage license as a show of support. When the SJC affirmed its original ruling in an advisory opinion last month, they booked the plane tickets.

(Link via Queerday.)