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Exactly right. Some issues must be dealt with by the government.
Seeing as the right to life was actually mentioned in our founding documents, I think that’s more than enough prerogative to consider abortion a federal issue. You would always have the issue of people crossing state lines to do it, which would make any particular state law ineffectual. If it took a constitutional amendment, that’s fine.
And in the case of marriage, it’s just stopping the government from being involved. If two same-sex people, or three, or four, want to claim they’ve been married, that’s up to them, but there shouldn’t be any government recognition of it. And marriage/divorce/custody is far too legally complicated an issue to have different rules set up in different states.
>> “The church can’t throw abortion doctors in jail and stop states from redefining marriage as two women and one cow or whatever they think up.” <<
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Churches should throw no one anywhere; its not their purpose, but the institution of marriage was declared and defined by God, and for a governmental entity to attempt to redefine it in any fashion is a clear violation of the first amendment, in as much as it totally obliterates the free exercise clause.
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