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To: FormerLib
Fred’s proposal would protect a state from having to recognize a “gay marriage” from another state.

It doesn't affect me either way so I personally couldn't care less how homosexuals envision life, liberty and happiness or how the government regulates it.

But under this arrangement wouldn't the Federal government have to recognize the marriage regardless of where the people reside?

22 posted on 10/03/2007 7:02:56 AM PDT by Realism (Some believe that the facts-of-life are open to debate.....)
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To: Realism
But under this arrangement wouldn't the Federal government have to recognize the marriage regardless of where the people reside?

That's just one of the questions that Fred needs to answer. There is no way that we can allow the Federal government to recognize these sexual pairings as being the equivalent of marriage.

25 posted on 10/03/2007 7:07:36 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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To: Realism; FormerLib
But under this arrangement wouldn't the Federal government have to recognize the marriage regardless of where the people reside?

Fred's proposal is that NO State would have to accept the 'marriage' of homosexuals from another State that had legalized it. He thinks that since marriage laws are regulated by States, that the citizens in those States should be the ones voting on those laws, but that they shouldn't have to be affected by those passed by other States. Since the Full Faith and Credit Clause can be changed by a vote of Congress, rather than having to go through an entire amendment process, that could be put into effect immediately. Fred also wants to bar Federal Judges from messing with the decisions of a States' citizens on the matter.

So if a majority of the voters of New York State decided to allow homosexual 'marriage', and the voters of Pennsylvania did not, the Commonwealth of PA wouldn't have to recognize the 'marriage' of homosexuals from NY.

41 posted on 10/03/2007 7:45:19 AM PDT by SuziQ
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