The lawsuit began after same-sex marriage became legal in Massachusetts in May 2004 and Gov. Mitt Romney , an opponent of it , invoked the 1913 statute , which had been originally adopted in part to block interracial marriages .
Mitt Romney /people/person/place_lived Massachusetts
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