The Fair Faith in Credit clause ensures that marriages in one state are recognized in the other states.
No...states do not recognize civil unions for same sex couples. How is that the government discriminating against religion? No one is or would be forcing your church to marry homosexuals. What it would allow is for my church to do so, so if you want to get technical, the current laws discriminate against religion since there are many religions out there that don't have issues with homosexuality and are prevented from performing legally binding ceremonies for their gay parishioners. Yes I am upset the rules are different for the LGBT community. They should be the same set of rules that apply to the straights. I am not, but if they were truly for equality, they would be all for this. The constitution guarantees equal treatment under the law for all, not just those you agree with. If they don't support same sex marriages, then they are a bunch of hypocritical shitbags. -----Original Message----- From: Sam [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 1:21 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: interesting opinion piece on Beck and the teabagging party Is marriage in the constitution? Don't states already recognize civil unions? Why use the name marriage if it has no value? What you've just stated is the government is discriminating against religion, and you're fine with it. But you're upset the rules are different for gays. Most importantly, why are you telling the TP what they should stand for. There are millions of issues they could stand for, why did you add this one? On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Eric Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is essentially what is going on now, sans all the BS from the right. > The government isn't recognizing religious marriages, but only the civil > aspects of it. You can get married in your religion without the sanction of > the state. It's perfectly legal to do so, but with the caveat, you don't > get all the legal protections in regards to visitation, inheritance, etc > that you do when the government sanctions the civil side. The government > can care less what religion you are getting married in (with the exception > of a few states, mostly in the south, who have ordination requirements to > keep out smaller faiths and non-Christian faiths that do not ordain their > ministers. The rest is covered by the Constitution, so the states really > shouldn't get to decide if they are going to discriminate or not. If I > marry a guy here in IL (for sake of argument), in accordance with the US > constitution, ALL states must recognize the marriage as legal and binding. > Anything less is a violation of the US Constitution. The arguments against > allowing gay marriage are extremely lame and lack any logical thoug ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:326454 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
