The attorneys will be busy with this for many years. Same sex marriage will be legal in a few states, I bet. So there will be inevitable lawsuits about :
# 1 will a gay marriage from Mass. or another state have to be legally recognized in another state.
# 2 Does the Federal gov't have to recognize gay marriage, thus overturning the Federal Defense of Marriage Act.
# 3 if forced to recognize gay marriage, will beneits relating to children, such as tax exemptions for dependent children, be ruled unconstitutional because the gay couple, most of who will be childless, don't get such a benefit for dependents?
# 4 If it's discriminatory to define marriage as two people opposite sex, will the same reasoning then be used in the future to legalize polygamy, group marriage, adult child marriages, incest, etc. In other words, where will it be legal to draw the line, legally speaking, if we toss out the concept of monogamous opposite sex marriage?
I suspect the trend given that the supermajority of states are going to prohibit ANY FORM of marriage outside of one man and one woman will be the following:
1. Only Mass will ever have actual homosexual marriage.
2. Mass. homosexual marriages will be accorded the same de facto status of "civil unions". Just as the vermont civil unions do not cross state lines even without the 1996 DMA, the Mass. marriages will not cross state lines.
3. Homosexual "marriages" with children will be treated the same as cohabitating homoseuxals who adopt. If both adopt the child, assuming it is even legal, then the child will be treated accordingly. The truth is that homosexual sex partners generally do not adopt the child.
Remeber 27 states do not allow second parent adoptions or severly restrict the practice. (IOW a child may ONLY HAVE a mother and a father. not two of either)
as for the last point, you are right on point. If you allow homosexuals to marry based on the myth of a "love test" under the law, then all those moslems who were denied spousal visas for wife numbers 2-4 will have standing to sue. This includes all rebel mormons. This inclues every wacko group. This includes animal sex people.