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Yes, but not until after a half zillion Equal Protection cases forcing the other states to honor the marriages from the 11 "progressive" states.

I haven't read the opinion yet but I'd be astonished if they did not touch upon the fallout in the dissent. After all, DOMA was passed with the specific intent of curing the Equal Protection issue.

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10:18 Amy Howe: Pages 16-17 of Scalia dissent: he chides the majority for failing to set forth the level of scrutiny that should apply to laws restricting marriage to a man or a woman.

There it is, Scalia sees the free-for-all coming. When I said Equal Protection above it should have been the Full Faith and Credit clause

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But by giving gays marriage benefits, doesn’t this then force them to accept that gay marriage is equal to the acceptable definition of marriage...so it changes the definition of marriage’ by default?