Kevin Drum is, as usual, exactly correct when he points out the absurdity of using a 1913 law originally designed to kowtow to racist Southern state governments to prevent out-of-state gays from marrying in Massachusetts. The symbolic relationship is so obvious, and the blowback so easy, that you've really got to wonder what Romney is thinking. All he's doing is giving the pro-gay marriage camp an effective slogan.

As usual, evil devours itself.