Posted on 05/17/2004 4:33:22 PM PDT by ambrose
All he has to do is go to Mass, get married there, then come back to Indiana where they will have to recognize the marriage.
No they don't.
Pitching a fit in a courthouse. The guy should get 30 days for stupidity.
I dont think thats true..
Indiana won't really have much of a choice.
Indiana law applies in the state of Indiana and Indiana law recognizes marriage as estate between one man and one woman.
Wrong, there only six states that don't have laws forbidding same sex marriage and Indiana isn't one of the six.
I see that you don't watch Brit Hume on FNC, he had Jonathan Turley on today explaining this. :)
Roger that!
It's going to happen all across the country. It might not be tomorrow, but it won't be long. They've won. Period. Remember this day.
So will my concealed carry license be recognized in Illinois, California and New York?
My speculation of what's going to happen is that marriage from crazychusetts will not be recognized in California and a challenge to the Defense of Marriage act will be made in San Francisco.
The home of the 9th circus.
So do you trust federal courts to not rule state constitutions "unconstitutional" because of the FF&C Clause?
Although the U.S. Constitution requires each state to give full faith and credit to the laws of other states, the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), passed in 1996, expressly undercuts the full faith and credit requirement in the case of same-sex marriages. Many states have also passed DOMA laws, specifically barring same-sex marriages in that state. Because of the apparent conflict between the federal DOMA and the U.S. Constitution, as well as all the other uncertainties in this area, equal rights advocates -- and their opponents -- are eager to have the U.S. Supreme Court decide the issue of same-sex marriage once and for all.
I think this whole things is going to get very ugly before it get's fixed.
This provision's roots probably dealt with states that had a higher minimum-age requirement than did Massachusetts at the time, but it would appear to apply with equal vigor to bar "exportability" of same-sex Massachusetts marriages into states that do not recognize same.
Oh, shut up ...ot !
I've got a feeling that this BS is going to end up jamming state courts for years.
A legislator told me there would be an unholy legal mess with homosexual marriages so they had to pass a law that does not recognize it. Apparently the mess will be with wills and estates. He said the courts would be overwhelmed with cases regarding inheritance etc. Good luck.
Jeez, can you imagine if the Apostles had been so weak in their faith.
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