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To: lentulusgracchus
No, it isn't a state issue. It's a gay attack of 11 years' duration now

I'll give you the fact it is an attack by sodomites for the past 10-15 years. However, what does the letter of the 10th say? Did not the right to determine the laws of marriage before the constant attacks by sodomites fall under the powers of the states? Are you saying because the attacks changed the rule of law should change? DOMA passed back in the 1990s verifies the right of the states to pass marriage laws

171 posted on 02/21/2004 7:55:57 AM PST by billbears (Deo Vindice.)
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To: billbears
DOMA passed back in the 1990s verifies the right of the states to pass marriage laws

I agree with you, that marriage belongs to the states, and it ought to stay there. However, the Full Faith and Credit Clause makes it a federal issue whether Texas has to put up with sodomite were-marriages smiled upon by Godforsaken jurisdictions like Vermount and Assachusetts.

My analogy is the situation that existed w/ respect to divorce in the early 1950's, when smart young couples who didn't want to be held back by the stodgy laws of some Midwestern hellhole state would hop a plane to Reno for their unhoneymoon. Presto, all done, we're divorced -- and never mind what our troglodyte neighbors in Iowa think, or their greybeard legislators and judges.

174 posted on 02/21/2004 11:53:23 AM PST by lentulusgracchus (Et praeterea caeterum censeo, delenda est Carthago. -- M. Porcius Cato)
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