The liberals change the criteria based on whatever supports the liberal view of an issue.
So, in the case of abortion, they don’t want states to have any say, because Roe Vs. Wade created a broad federal right to abortion. The federal courts decision is binding on the states, say the liberals there.
But on marriage, the liberals take the opposite position, that states rights are paramount, and that the federal government has no right to define marriage.
Liberals are not known for having any consistent principles. The Defense of Marriage Act case is a prime example, since in that case, they argued that the states have the right to define marriage, not the federal government.
I can just hear the liberals complaining tomorrow. Today they celebrate the marriage ruling. Tomorrow they will complain that we have a “patchwork quilt” of state marriage laws, in which most states still do not recognize homosexual marriage. Nothing in the court case compels a state to do so. So the liberals will have a new set of things to bitch about.
Liberals aren’t stupid.
They are going to push for federal recognition of gay marriage as legal.
They HATE states rights, but they can’t get to this without getting rid of DOMA. DOMA is the first step. Dump DOMA then now they will set up some case against a particular state and then O will try to ram through a bill forcing all states through the same ‘full faith and credit clause’ to recognize gay marriage.
Am I blind? Am I the only one who sees precisely what Obama is going to do?