WTF are you talking about? The Federal government permits states to marry gays NOW. It just doesn't recognize them and they shouldnt. No one has to pass a federal law permitting gay marriages. Its none of the Feds business. You are completely confused. Let the states determine their own morality laws.
I will type slower. And on a 5th grade level. So maybe you will know WTF I’m talking about.
I said a day will come soon when the Federal Government will pass a law that will let gays marry.
You want the states to pass these kinds of laws. I don’t.
I don’t want any government - state or federal - to pass laws that lets gays marry.
But because you think it is OK for the states to let gays marry, I said then that type of liberal thinking will soon allow the Federal government to pass gay marriage laws too.
(I hope you understand this explanation. If not - ask a grown up to help you understand it.)
Sickoflibs, you are right in principle but R2nd is also right. The reason is, America itself is now "completely confused." Not enough people today understand this distinction between federal powers and state powers. Indeed, I would say it'd take you all day to find anyone on a crowded street who knows the difference, or why the fedgov shouldn't touch "morality laws" and why the states may.
This is now a democracy and the demos is stupid. Probably irretrievably stupid.
The fedgov WILL take sides on sodomy, gay marriage, etc. Whether or not it should, is an issue lacking intelligent minds to examine and dispute it.
Our free republic exists only on the internet now.