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To: farmfriend
- The Tenth Amendment essentially gives states any right not expressed in the Constitution. Does this mean that it is up to each individual state to decide whether or not to allow gay marriages?

I have to disagree with you. The Constitution is quite explicit. Any right not covered in the Constitution is guaranteed to the states. The men who wrote the document were peers of the state legislators that passed sodomy laws. And the laws were not challenged for constitutionality. They were accepted as standard and good laws

18 posted on 12/01/2003 8:42:19 PM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice)
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To: billbears
I said nothing about constitutionality. Did you reply to the right person?
23 posted on 12/01/2003 8:45:58 PM PST by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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