Dear Mary...

"Replacement_Tommel" wrote in
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In article , Michael Wise
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In article ,
Douglas Berry wrote:

Lo, many moons past, on Thu, 04 Mar 2004 21:35:28 GMT, a stranger
called by some "Jarg" came forth and
told this tale in us.military.army

"Douglas Berry" In the US, marriages are handled by county
registars.
Not the states,
not the federal government. Those marriages might only be legal in
a
singal county now, they are marriages.

I'm afraid that simply isn't true:

California passed Proposition 22, which says that only marriages
between a[i]
man and a woman are valid in California.

State law is very clear, said Randy Thomasson, executive director of
Campaign for California Families.
"ssuing invalid marriage certificates and officiating at
unlawful
weddings is a misdemeanor and punishable with fines and jail time,"
the
group said.

Which violates Article 1, Section 31 of the Constitution.

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SEC. 31. (a) The State shall not discriminate against, or grant
preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of
race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of
public employment, public education, or public contracting.
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I don't see anything there about sexual preference. It clearly states
"sex"...and not sexual preference.


Look up the full faith and credit clause in Art IV, Sec. 1 - all states
must
recognize the legislative acts, public records (-i.e. Marriages legally
performed in that state), and judicial decisons in that state.

Fauntleroy v. Lum, 210 U.S. 230, 28 S.Ct. 641 extrapolates on this.

In short, if a state allows gays to marry, ALL other sates must recognize
it.

Go ahead, look it up.

-Tom

Didn't Clinton's masterpiece enactment of the Defense of Marriage Act do an
end run around the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution to
forestall just this eventuality? I wonder if the DOMA has been tested in
court?
Take care,
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of a short decisive war appears
to be one of the most ancient
and dangerous of human illusions."
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