Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has made it his mission to take on Mitt Romney's homo-hating marriage laws. The Democrat ordered the court to validate 26 out-of-state gay marriages, thus reversing Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's dastardly plot to deny the committed queers' dreams.

Romney and his conservative comrades previously used a 1913 law to forbid out-of-staters from taking advantage of the Bay State's gay marriage laws. That law states that if one's home state explicitly bans gay marriage, Massachusetts cannot issue them a valid license. However, a group of revolutionary reverends, pastors and the such pastors ignored his ruling and issued at least 26 allegedly invalid marriage licenses. Now, Patrick wants them officially officiated. Patrick's spokesman Kyle Sullivan remarks:

It appears like the prior administration was politicizing a routine administrative function. There was no legal basis for separating these certificates in the first place.

Unfortunately, the move doesn't really change anything for the out-of-state love birds. Except, perhaps, for two couples from Rhode Island: a court ruled in favor of the marriages, as RI's constitution doesn't specifically prohibit same-sex nups. Regardless, it's the thought that counts.

Patrick orders 26 gay marriages recorded [Boston Globe]