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Originally Posted by djplong
1) What harm does gay marriage do to you? Don't give me a line about the "sanctity of marriage" because it was legal for my uncle to marry 6 times to 4 different women - to say nothing of incidents like the Spear's weekend not-a-marriage.
2) The Constitution requires the states to respect each other's laws. That means, while Alabama can have laws that do not sanction gay marriages in their state, they DO have to recognize a marriage legally performed in another state.
I think this will end up becoming a challenge to the Constitutionality of the DoMA.
Mind you - I'm not saying that, for instance, the Catholic Church should be forced to perform these ceremonies or anything like that.
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I'm not against gay marriage, myself, and that may be a surprise to some. I am against things like this being shoved down the throat of a populace that overwhelmingly is against it.
Giving testimony of bad actors is not in itself a justification to trash a time honored belief and law based on traditions that go back thousands of years. It's the easy way out for a debate on the issue.
If the law is to be changed it must be done by the people through their legislators. If it's unilaterally decreed by an unelected activist judiciary it'll be a travesty and an affront to our system of government. IMHO