"No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.".
But the VT and Mass Supremes ignored the fact federal law and the Constitution ARE the Supreme Law Of the Land. The Mass Supremes were just more honest in deciding civil unions didn't go quite far enough. And that brought us here to this debate today.