[antiRepublicrat]

It is kind of funny, isn't it? I've noticed for a while that many conservatives don't mind trampling on several of the first 10 Amendments when it comes to their pet causes. Are these conservatives just the flip side of the liberal coin?

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[King Black Robe]

Hogwash. The FMA will secure federalism on this issue by banning Judges from legislating from the bench. Other than protecting the word "marriage," which is already taken, everything else is up for grabs by state legislatures.

But why should the truth get in the way of a good argument?

[Land of the Free 04]

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[Flying Circus]

The problem, as I see it, is not the Feds overrunning states rights, but states like Massachusetts being used to over rule the rights of all the other states to define marriage. If Mass. has a law recognizing homosexual marriage, then every other state that the couple goes to will be forced to recognize it too, undermining every other state's right to define marriage. In this situation it is right for the Federal Gov. to step in and resolve the differences.

[gcruse]

conservatives are increasingly attempting to curtail states' rights

That's a fact, Jack.   Ashcroft doesn't know the difference
between Commandments and Amendments.

[j_tull]

Cries in defense of "states' rights" were historically associated with efforts to maintain segregation, and echoed by Republican presidential candidates from Barry Goldwater in 1964 to Bush in 2000

Funny, I don't remember the President supporting segregation in 2000.