To: PatrickHenry
If it makes it any easier for you, let me tell you the following things.
For the most part, marriages which are legal in one state are legal in all states, under the "full faith and credit" clause of the Constitution.
However, no state has to recognize a marriage celebrated in another state which is so antithetical to the laws of that state as to violate public policy. In those cases, the state may treat the marriage as void.
So, one state may allow homosexuals to marry, but they can't force other states to recognize the union.
Caveat, the same argument was used about marriages between blacks and non-blacks, so called "miscegenation."
If you allow blacks to marry whites, then you're on the slippery slope, it was argued. Next thing you know they'll allow bigamy and sodomy and who knows what.
4,039 posted on
07/17/2003 6:44:42 PM PDT by
CobaltBlue
(Never voted for a Democrat in my life.)
To: CobaltBlue
If it makes it any easier for you ... That's not a good way to begin a post, unless you're quite certain that you're addressing an ignoramus. And in such a case, why post at all?
4,040 posted on
07/17/2003 6:50:00 PM PDT by
PatrickHenry
(Idiots are on "virtual ignore," and you know exactly who you are.)
To: CobaltBlue
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4,044 posted on
07/17/2003 7:02:40 PM PDT by
f.Christian
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