It's good news for MA because the judge ruled that the fed was encroaching on the rights of Massachusetts citizens and the Commonwealth.
It's not good news overall though.
This is one of the areas where I feel a Federal law is necessary to ensure that a marriage recognized in one state is also recognized in another.
Hypothetical:You get married in MA. Then your company transfers you to West Virginia where you find out that they don't recognize your marriage and they can criminally charge you with illegal cohabitation, sodomy, and running a house of ill repute. So you refuse the transfer and are fired. A good lawyer could very successfully argue that you were fired for being gay.
We need to get people to the point where they understand that Katie and Charlene, or Mike and Phil, being married does nothing to their own marriage, religion, or whatever. And then we need to push for a Constitutional amendment that marriage is between two "people."
We'll worry about poly folks in the future cuz if we don't define the simple steps first the thing will never move forward.
It's alot like the TEA Party. Alot of people believe in it. But everyone involved wants their own little spin added to the agenda. If they would simply define their beliefs in three or four bullet points and move on, they'd be alot stronger and scare the shit out of both the Democrats and the Republicans.
"This is one of the areas where I feel a Federal law is necessary to ensure that a marriage recognized in one state is also recognized in another."
US Constitution, Part IV, Section 1: Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
The law requiring each of the several states to recognize marriages performed in other states already exists. Just needs to be enforced.
Actually, while not "common knowledge," the Full Faith and Credit clause is fairly well known.
If you want odd things that only libertarians are likely to know, how about this: a guy was caught carrying a loaded, concealed pistol without a NH license to do so. However, he had a Virginia license to carry. Normally, the way such laws are written, Full Faith and Credit doesn't apply (eg, carry is banned, with an exception for those who have appropriate paperwork), and states only recognize licenses from other states that they have explicit reciprocity agreements with. In this case, though, because VA licenses are issued by judges (rather than the police, as in NH), he argued that the license was the result of a "judicial proceeding," covered by Full Faith and Credit, and got the prosecution to drop the case.
It's not good news overall though.
This is one of the areas where I feel a Federal law is necessary to ensure that a marriage recognized in one state is also recognized in another.
Hypothetical:You get married in MA. Then your company transfers you to West Virginia where you find out that they don't recognize your marriage and they can criminally charge you with illegal cohabitation, sodomy, and running a house of ill repute. So you refuse the transfer and are fired.
A good lawyer could very successfully argue that you were fired for being gay.
We need to get people to the point where they understand that Katie and Charlene, or Mike and Phil, being married does nothing to their own marriage, religion, or whatever. And then we need to push for a Constitutional amendment that marriage is between two "people."
We'll worry about poly folks in the future cuz if we don't define the simple steps first the thing will never move forward.
It's alot like the TEA Party. Alot of people believe in it. But everyone involved wants their own little spin added to the agenda. If they would simply define their beliefs in three or four bullet points and move on, they'd be alot stronger and scare the shit out of both the Democrats and the Republicans.
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US Constitution, Part IV, Section 1:
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
The law requiring each of the several states to recognize marriages performed in other states already exists. Just needs to be enforced.
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Thanks for that info.
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If you want odd things that only libertarians are likely to know, how about this: a guy was caught carrying a loaded, concealed pistol without a NH license to do so. However, he had a Virginia license to carry. Normally, the way such laws are written, Full Faith and Credit doesn't apply (eg, carry is banned, with an exception for those who have appropriate paperwork), and states only recognize licenses from other states that they have explicit reciprocity agreements with. In this case, though, because VA licenses are issued by judges (rather than the police, as in NH), he argued that the license was the result of a "judicial proceeding," covered by Full Faith and Credit, and got the prosecution to drop the case.
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