To: djf
A civil union is a contract, and as such, another state would be pretty much obliged to honor it.That is not true. Here is the law... pay attention to the red typeface.
Article IV.
Section. 1.
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
Only Congress can define the effect...
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
The best case scenario for conservatives is that the activist courts keep overturning gay marriage bans. That will help us in actual elections the most.
To: Sir Francis Dashwood
It certainly is true.
No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
United States Constitution, Art 1, Sec 10, Cl 1
92 posted on
07/26/2006 11:40:03 PM PDT by
djf
(A short fence is mathematically the same as NO FENCE...)
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