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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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To: Polybius
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.

I'm simply puzzled you would post this less than a week after the USSC ran roughshod over the first amendment. The USSC will do what it wants; the full faith and credit clause will be the vehicle.

64 posted on 12/17/2003 7:56:19 AM PST by Right Wing Professor
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