Massachusetts — which approved same-sex marriages when Mitt Romney was governor — has taken another step down the road to perdition.

Its senate voted to allow out-of-state gay couples to marry in the Bay State. The house is expected to join the senate in revoking an 1913 ban on out-of-state couples marrying in Massachusetts. California's recent ruling allowing same-sex marriages figured into the change.

Kris Mineau of the Massachusetts Family Institute says:

The Massachusetts Senate has no right to infringe on the internal issues of how other states define marriage, but that's exactly what they voted today to do.

After Massachusetts became the first state to allow gay marriages in 2004, its governor, Utah's adopted favorite son Mitt Romney, ordered town clerks to enforce the little-known law to deny licenses to couples from other states.

Supporters of the repeal say it will lure up 30,000 couples to Massachusetts from the surrounding states, including New York and New Jersey—pumping $111 million into the economy, hundreds of jobs and generating $5 million in state revenues over the next three years.