[Amendment10]

Can states have gay marriage?

The states can have gay marriage imo. In order to prohibit gay marriage the Constitution would have to be amended to prohibit such marriage imo.

Also, regardless that the corrupt media would have everybody believe that the Supreme Court decided Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) unconstitutional, Section 2 of DOMA is evidently still in effect.

Section 2. Powers reserved to the states

No State, territory, or possession of the United States, or Indian tribe, shall be required to give effect to any public act, record, or judicial proceeding of any other State, territory, possession, or tribe respecting a relationship between persons of the same sex that is treated as a marriage under the laws of such other State, territory, possession, or tribe, or a right or claim arising from such relationship.

So regardless if a state allows gay marriage, states that don't allow gay marriage can basically ignore such marriages.

[Amendment10]

Regarding my previous post, I should note that English common law, which the Founding States acknowledged in the Constitution, prohibits anything but one-man, one-woman marriage. In fact, the Supreme Court referenced common law in Reynolds v. United States where the Court outlawed polygamy. My problem concerning issues like gay marriage is that I don't know where 10th Amendment-protected state sovereignty stops and common law begins.

[ansel12]

When I posted post 31, I hadn’t seen this post.

So you do believe that states can have gay marriage, and you believe that when a family moves to different state, that their family no longer exists as a married couple with kids, or if an FBI agent or Marine is transferred to a different state, that they are no longer married.

[ansel12]

I was hoping you would respond to post 33.