Perry is right. I have said that for years.
Different states have different morals and should make their own laws without big brother overlords.
I want Roe overturned, but the states majorly came together to provide a common defense with each retaining their own government.
“Our friends in New York six weeks ago passed a statute that said marriage can be between two people of the same sex,” Perry said. “And you know what? That’s New York, and that’s their business, and that’s fine with me. That is their call. If you believe in the 10th Amendment, stay out of their business.”
Perry also expressed that sentiment when he told the New Hampshire Sunday News that the New York decision “is New York’s prerogative.”
The 10th Amendment says, “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.” Like many constitutional amendments, this one gets interpreted and spun beyond its original meaning. But in the context of marriage, there should be no doubt that each state must have the right to decide who can get marriage licenses. Equally important is each state’s authority to decide whether to recognize marriages performed in other states. The federal Defense of Marriage Act, approved in 1996 and signed by President Bill Clinton, allows states not to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. That law also defined marriage as “only a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife.”
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We’ll give Perry spokesman Mark Miner the last word on this.
“To not pass the Federal Marriage Amendment would impinge on Texas’ and other states’ right not to have marriage forced upon it (by activist judges and special interest groups).
“The amendment process respects all states by requiring three-fourths ratification by the legislatures. Our Constitution was designed to respect states, including the amendment process.”
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/perrys-consistency-commendable-1658391.html