So here’s a full faith and credit question. Let’s say that instead of gay marriage, MD had lowered the legal age of consent and marriage to 10. An adult male marries a 10 year old girl in MD, moves to OH and OH then has to consider the marriage (and what would be considered statutory rape/child molestation) valid?
Something tells me that’s not the case, that there are limits on what full faith and credit applies to ...
Although your highly unlikely hypothetical scenario is food for thought, it seems to have missed the point of my previous example concerning different legal drinking ages in different states as it relates to the FF&CC.
My hypothetical analysis of your scenario is as follows. Regardless if OH is required to recognize the marriage in MD, that’s beside the point. The man has no constitutional protection preventing OH from putting him in prison for rape and child molestation even if that child is his legally married wife. (We’re not in Kansas anymore Toto.)
Like it or not the ruling concerns honoring a contract. Marriage is a contract, while gun laws and age of consent are not.