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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
"Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups."
If you guys are right, isn't the entire second sentence superfluous? The only way a state or federal law could be construed to require that the legal incidents of marital status be conferred on unmarried couples is if a legislature, state or federal, tried to permit civil unions.
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Is the issue in MA that some are saying that their constitution requires that same-sex couples be permitted to marry, not just enter into a union with the incidents of marriage?
