[AbsoluteJustice]

Agreed but when it comes to interstate travel and the recognizing of laws across states that is a federal issue and if the feds defined marriage as between a man and a woman and one state does not recognize it then by law it will not be recognized 1)Federally and 2)within the state.

I guess once it hit inter-states that is when the feds have jurisdiction. So to simplify things they made the law in 1996.

[Modernman]

Agreed but when it comes to interstate travel and the recognizing of laws across states that is a federal issue

If that was true, then the Mass. Supreme Court decision wouldn't be such a big deal. If this law did what it claims to do, then either 1) a state couldn't allow for gay marriage or 2) a gay marriage in Mass. wouldn't be recognized in any other state.

The fact that everyone considers the Mass. decision to be so dangerous suggests that conservative legal scholars don't have much faith in the 1996 law.