[lentulusgracchus]

You have to get the middle of the first page for the major reason the Supreme Court won't hear appeals of court rulings in favor of homosexual marriages--federalism.

That's just their excuse. The "right" party wins at state level, they won't hear it. They didn't refuse to hear the Lawrence decision, because the State of Texas had been upheld under a previous SCOTUS ruling handed down by the Burger Court in 1985. They reversed their own clear-cut ruling based on politics and desired outcomes -- the same old positivist BS. Icing on the case: A closeted gay justice may have voted and written the opinion on the case. That would be judicial misconduct at the galactic level.

Watch -- a State Supreme Court upholds a referendum affirming DOMA, state or federal, and SCOTUS will snap that case to the top of their docket before you can say, "BOHICA!"

[zaphod3000]

The state law at issue in Lawrence was a due process challenge under the Fourteenth Amendment, so it became a question for the Supreme Court. Also, a state Supreme Court would never get to rule on DOMA, because DOMA is a federal law, and only impacts the federal government. In fact, there have been a number of challenges to DOMA, all of which have failed.

[fwdude]

Watch -- a State Supreme Court upholds a referendum affirming DOMA, state or federal, and SCOTUS will snap that case to the top of their docket before you can say, "BOHICA!"

And if an activist SCOTUS overturns DOMA as "unconstitutional", this should be the impetus for the next civil war.