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To: cripplecreek
"Personally I would ditch the federal definition of marriage (leave it up to the church) and cut the marriage related federal benefits down to a handful from some 1500."

IF they had cut the monetary goodies for being married from the Federal Government BEFORE this decision the issue would have dried up and been moot.

Instead the Right served up a nice slow hanging curve ball Named DOMA and the Gayberts crushed it and sent it out of the stadium.

Bottom Line, GAY Marriage is now enshrined into the DNA of the Fed Gov forever.

Marriage is now regulated by the Federal Government.

Well done Conservatives you just made Government EVEN BIGGER!

65 posted on 06/26/2013 7:25:35 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
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To: Mad Dawgg
Well done Conservatives you just made Government EVEN BIGGER!

Conservatives would understand the federal government has no jurisdiction over marriage. I would tend to thank Republicans for broadening the illegal scope of federal power with DOMA. As another posted, if the federal government stuck to the Constitution, all the "marriage benefits" would be eliminated and restricting those benefits would be a non sequitur.

106 posted on 06/26/2013 7:33:38 AM PDT by trubolotta
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