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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Two things, and please don't hate me for this.
1.) I think it would depend entirely on his constituency, and on some issues I certainly don't have a problem with this.
2.) (and this relates to that full-faith-and-credit topic too):
From The Advocate, September 3, 1996
>>The misnamed and misguided Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is as unconstitutional and unnecessary as it is mean-spirited and malicious. The authors of the bill mistakenly claim that Congress has the authority to allow one state to ignore a legally recognized marriage in another. But the U.S. Constitution is unequivocal on this point: “Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.”<<
Guess who wrote this column (this is only the first paragraph)?
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1) The question was what he meant, not what he'd do.
2) I'm curious to hear who wrote that, but -- and this is one of those rare topics where even Not Me and I seem to be in agreement -- I think it's pretty well established that the Full Faith and Credit Clause has a public policy exception that would permit states to decline to recognize same-sex marriages from other states.
