[ellery]

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.

[asmith92008]

Have you considered the effects of the full faith and credit clause? States must give full faith and credit to their sister states' legal licenses. Do you honestly think if one state's judges, i.e. Massachusetts, impose gay marriage in that state, federal judges will not force the rest to comply?