I know, it’s refreshing to see someone actually adhering to the Founders’ vision. The US was never meant to be a place where all states were carbon copies of each other.
After April 1865, state sovereignty was erased forever.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
newsflash that day is LONG past.
Full faith and credit and commerce clause interpritations have already done that.
States other than for very minor issues ARE becoming clones.
The marriage debate IS a federal issue because of the federal income tax. The federal government WILL eventually be forced to accept homosexual based marriages for purposes of taxation via judicial imposed overturning of the mere law of 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
In order to prevent that constitutional challenge, the common law status of marriage has to be codified in the constitution. PERIOD.
The unfortunately part of your post is that even though you are correct in principal, courts have said that because of “equal protection”, one state’s legalized “right”, then becomes all state’s rights.
But notice how that does NOT apply to concealed carry laws...while some states allow open carry and some concealed carry - others don’t even allow you to carry one at all. And some municipalities make it illegal to even own one (unless you are of the wealthy ruling class).
>I know, it’s refreshing to see someone actually adhering to the Founders’ vision. The US was never meant to be a place where all states were carbon copies of each other.<
I doubt very much that the Founders ever would have dreampt to legislate God’s law about marriage one way or the other. Marriage = one man + one woman. Anything else is an abomination to our Creator.