[rollo tomasi]

Back in the day, that was the understanding, hence no need to federalize the institution since homosexual "marriage" was not even a threat to natural relations in the States. Federal expansion started occurring which then institutionalized the recognition. Then the 1960s happened and look what is happening.

Apparently the Libertarians think time travel is possible today so that people who try to protect marriage can go back and defeat the 16th, Medicare/Medicaid, Immigration laws, Social Security Act, etc. that officially institutionalized matrimony in the Fed government. Erase the sexual revolution and go back to the cultural mindset of the late 18th century.

[JCBreckenridge]

Read Reynolds vs the United States. Your argument is incorrect. Marriage has been federal since there’s been a US. The definition of marriage as one man and one woman was never left up to the states and Reynolds argues this is why the federal government could ban polygamy.

Arguing that ‘it’s not federal’ has opened the door for gay marriage in all 50 states. Congratulations.