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Just a passing thought, but let's assume the worst case: Massachusetts Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage; Federal Courts, possibly including the Supreme Court effectively annul the '96 Defense of Marriage Act; and the Marriage Amendment fails passage. It goes without saying that courts all over the country will be flooded with suits insisting that say Texas recognise the marriage of Joe and Fred, who have just moved back from Massachusetts.

I suggest that we call on our friends in the NRA to file an amicus curie suit favoring the gay rights side, and simultaneously request that the precedent set be used to guarantee that a legally obtained concealed carry permit issued in one state be honored by another. If Constitutional law doesn't bother these nitwits, perhaps the thought of Texas tourists packing .45ACPs in shoulder holsters will give them the willies. Might even get them to look at the second half of Article IV Sec 1, to wit: and the Congress may by general law prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof.