That would be correct and the feds gave Utah a choice, accept the federal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman or join Mexico.
That is the precedent for the federal governments defining marriage while states regualte it. All the rest of the states rights bs is simply that bs.
Marriage is and has been defined by the feds as the union of one man and one woman.
See post 17.
Clarence Thomas believes you can't rely on judicial precedence -- you have to go back to the founding document, in this case, the Constitution. If you rely on precedent, then one bad judicial action spawns many more -- like a game of telephone.
I don't see in the Constitution where the feds have authority over marriage. That means it belongs to the states.
Very good, concise and correct comments.