[TomGuy]

this is an issue that states have to decide for themselves.'

And how is that a bad thing.

Because it is a political shellgame trick. Sure, let one state decide, then 2, and 4, and another dozen, etc. Eventually, the other states will be coerced into reciprocity agreements, but the politicians can say they didn't support it.

[Blood of Tyrants]

You seem to think that the legislators in the states with anti-homosexual marriage constitutional amendments are going to just roll over. When the sodomites sue the first state to try to force reciprocity, they will find over 35 other states joining in on the side of the defendant state.