Thanks for the reply.
"If Scalia's dissentiing opinion held true, the majority ruling could potentially negate the DOMA and create a legal loophole allowing same-sex marriages and obliging all other states to recognize them."
If that happens, and the courts back up that argument, then won't gun/carry permits fall under the same line of reasoning? I don't see how they couldn't.
Please don't get me wrong, I am not an advocate of same-sex marriage.
Ultimately it comes down to what the court will do. That's hard to predict sometimes. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for the USSC to decide that a gun permit in one jurisdiction has authority in another jurisdiction, based on FF&C concerns.
Custom and history goes against that idea. On the other hand, custom and history supports that a couple married in one state is considered married by all.
Also note that we dodged a bullet with the Equal Rights Amendment back in the 1970s. That change would say, esentially, that the state can't stop a woman from doing what a man can do, and the state can't stop a man from doing what a woman can do.
A woman can marry a man - if the ERA was in place it would be a sound legal basis for allowing a man to do what a woman can do, in this case, marry a man. Same goes for allowing women to do what any man can do - marry a woman.
Whew! That was close!