To: Lunatic Fringe
What you say might have some merit if it were not for left-wing federal judges who will force it on other states. Sooner or later, the Federal Defense of Marriage Act will be challenged, and sooner or later a liberal appellate court will tell, for example, that New Hampshire must recognize Massachusetts' gay marriages regardless of the DOFAct and state bans on gay marriage.
That is why it is a disingenuous and phony position that at least 6 of the Democratic candidates have taken. They say it should be left up to the states, while they know that the leftist judges they would appoint would most certainly take away that option.
While I oppose gay marriage for religious and cultural reasons anywhere in the nation, on a practical level I could go along with what you say if what you say were practical. But with liberal judges it is not.
12 posted on
11/20/2003 11:31:31 AM PST by
Aetius
To: Aetius
Read my 'Full Faith & Credit' analysis above to see exactly why one renegade state refefining marriage has a national implication.
14 posted on
11/20/2003 11:40:58 AM PST by
HitmanLV
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