[WOSG]

"Following your logic, the SCOTUS should never have ruled that the Texas sodomy law was unconstitutional, but they did."

There is no doubt that they made a mistaken ruling not based on the text of the US Constitution. And there is no doubt it has opened a pandora's box here.

It seems the FIRST ORDER OF BUSINESS is to fix the Massachusetts Constitution. If not a single state in the union has gay marriage, then the federal issue is moot.

[randita]

It will take until 2006 for the MA Constitution to be amended. In the meantime, hundreds, if not thousands of gay couples will be married in MA. Those from DOMA states will go home and challenge their state's laws. This will end up before the SCOTUS before the MA Constitution is amended, I believe.