To: Akira
I agree with you and RJ. But marriage is different.
Why should we let five Massachusetts judges make it law in their state, thus Constitutionally requiring the other 49 states to recognize it?
To: 11th Earl of Mar
I just don't buy that. There's nothing that says a marriage constituted in Mass. has to be recognized in Texas, is there? Mass. won't recognize a CCW permit issued in Texas, no matter how much I complain. States laws are states laws, are they not?
I know that this will tie up many courts, and I've heard all of the nightmare scenarios involving divorce, complex legalities, etc. I'm no lawyer. But I just can't bring my federalist centered brain to embrace this one.
11 posted on
12/16/2003 5:32:07 PM PST by
Akira
(Blessed are the cheesemakers.)
To: 11th Earl of Mar
Why should we let five Massachusetts judges make it law in their state, thus Constitutionally requiring the other 49 states to recognize it? What Massachusetts decides to allow or disallow has no Constitutional bearing on any other state.
Congress and 37 states' legislatures already have passed laws intended to block recognition of other states' approval of same-sex marriages. Short of militarily conquering the United States Government and other states with the Massachusetts Highway Patrol, Massachusetts can not force any other state to recognize the legal validity of a Massachusetts same-sex marriage.
63 posted on
12/17/2003 7:45:51 AM PST by
Polybius
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