The Marriage Wars- aren't

Marriage got a little more equal in the US over the last fortnight as the Massachusetts legislature revoked its notorious 1913 anti-miscegenation law. First passed to prevent mixed-race marriages from occurring among residents of other states where it was illegal, its racist heritage was dusted off and polished to a high new sheen of homophobia by former Governor Mitt Romney.

Now same-sex couples from other states can marry in Massachusetts and go home to states where their marriages aren't' recognized and- they still won't be recognized. But at least they won't be the on-again, off-again affair marriages in California have been, and will be, until the November election.

In the meantime, many happy returns to two more summer wedding couples.

Brian Joseph Keil and Harry Elwood Turner were married on Thursday in San Francisco. Steven Tierney, a deputy marriage commissioner, officiated in the rotunda at City Hall.

Mr. Keil (above, left) is 40. He is the director for client reporting in the institutional brokerage division of Charles Schwab & Company in San Francisco.

He is a son of Joan M. Keil and Werner W. Keil of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. His mother retired as a sales clerk at Marshall’s department store there. His father retired as a line manager at the I.B.M. manufacturing plant in Poughkeepsie.

Mr. Turner, also 40, works in San Jose, Calif., for the Renesas Technology Corporation, a Japanese semiconductor manufacturer; he is a vice president and the general counsel of the North and South American sales and marketing subsidiary. He graduated from the University of South Carolina and received his law degree from Columbia.

He is a son of V. Dianne Cannon of Alexandria, Va., and the late Harry E. Turner. Ms. Cannon is an executive assistant in the finance department of the Turner Construction Company of New York; she works in the company’s offices in Arlington, Va.

Michael Stephen Flier and David Elton Trueblood are to be married on Sunday at their home in Cambridge, Mass. Richard S. Flier, the brother of Michael and a retired judge of the Superior Court in Contra Costa County, Calif., received permission from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to officiate. He is to lead a ceremony that will draw on Quaker and Jewish traditions.

Mr. Flier (above, left), 67, is the Oleksandr Potebnja professor of Ukrainian philology in the Slavic languages and literatures department at Harvard and is the director of its Ukrainian Research Institute. He was the chairman of Harvard’s linguistics department from 1994 to 1999. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, where he also received a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures.

He is a son of the late Albert A. Flier and the late Bonnie B. Flier, who lived in Los Angeles. They operated two drive-in restaurants that bore their name, and Flier’s Antiques, all in Fresno, Calif.

Mr. Flier was a widower; two previous marriages ended in divorce.

Mr. Trueblood, 54, is the director of public relations at the Boston Foundation, which makes grants to nonprofit organizations in the Boston area and works with other organizations to commission research and provide public forums addressing issues of economic competitiveness. From 1998 to 2001, he was the managing editor of the Community Newspaper Company, a regional news group in Needham, Mass., that publishes weekly and small daily papers. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania and received a master’s degree in intellectual history from Harvard.

He is a son of Caroline F. Trueblood and Arnold E. Trueblood of Gwynedd, Pa. His mother, a retired registered nurse, worked at Ambler Medical Associates, a family practice in Ambler, Pa. His father, who is also retired, founded the Trueblood Company, a residential construction and land development company in Spring House, Pa.

Mr. Trueblood’s previous marriage ended in divorce.