If the State hadn’t told us what marriage is in the first place (via tax law, estate law, etc.), the Supreme Court wouldn’t be weighing in now.
Note that as a consequence of the ill-conceived 17th Amendment, the corrupt, citizen-elected federal Senate has helped the corrupt House to pass a bunch of laws which the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to make.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear.
“If the State hadn’t told us what marriage is in the first place (via tax law, estate law, etc.), the Supreme Court wouldn’t be weighing in now”
More than that - the day we gave states the power to license marriages, we gave them the ability to define it.
I’m complicit as well - has anyone here been married without first clearing it with the state? That’s when we lost this fight.