[imardmd1]

As for the gay marriage issue, I believe that, according to DOMA, a state doesn’t have to honor gay marriages performed in other state, if they contravene the first state’s laws.

Again, I'm not a lawyer, so you may be right. But since that whole thing is dynamic, what will "settled law" in it be? I hate to think of the ways it could be twisted.

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[txrangerette]

DOMA aside, their is a clause in the Constitution itself - name of it escapes me for now - that means states don’t have to recognize laws from other states on any issue not just gay marriage IF those laws conflict with their own states laws and legal precedents.

As to DOMA, I thought it was a law that stated the FEDERAL legal position on marriage as it applies to any federal issue and did not attempt to legislate for states on the issue.

Obama refuses to defend DOMA in any lawsuit in the courts where it is an issue, so right now DOMA is defenseless. Yes it still on the books but the regime through its precepts under the bus...