Senate to Tackle Gay Marriage Ban

[Right Wing]

Senate to Tackle Gay Marriage Ban

WASHINGTON — President Bush and congressional Republicans are aiming the political spotlight this week on efforts to ban gay marriage, with events at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue — all for a constitutional amendment with scant chance of passage but wide appeal among social conservatives.


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,198154,00.html

Among conservatives, some say it is federalism and disregards states' rights, while others support the ban in support of the sanctity of marriage and social conservatism. I do believe in and support the constitution, including states' rights. However, my belief in the social issues are important enough for me to support a constitutional ban on such things as abortion and gay marriage. What do you guys think?

[Madcowhunter]

It isn't the duty of the federal government to tackle moral issues. It should be left up to the states.

[Dagummit]

It isn't the duty of the federal government to tackle moral issues. It should be left up to the states.

So a state should also be entitled to deny the marriage licenses from other states...say states that have a ban on gay marriage?

Is that correct? Because that is the VERY reason this type of amendment has come up...some === gets married in a state that allows that morbid shit and then try to force another state to honor it...

[Guns R Cool]

It would never work in state. Something this big needs to be dealt with by the federal government. If one state bans gay marriage while another state legalizes it, there's no point to it. The fags from the banned state will go to the legal state. Unless you propose that a state has the right to prohibit its citizens from traveling to another state for the purpose of an act that is illegal in their home state. This goes with abortion as well.

[Dagummit]

It would never work in state. Something this big needs to be dealt with by the federal government. If one state bans gay marriage while another state legalizes it, there's no point to it. The fags from the banned state will go to the legal state. Unless you propose that a state has the right to prohibit its citizens from traveling to another state for the purpose of an act that is illegal in their home state. This goes with abortion as well.

Exactly...if it were truly a states rights issue...all these new "states rights" supporters on here would be crying foul over the abortion thing....good point!

And yes, I am a states rights person...just like a state (13 actually) had the right to secede from an oppressive federal gov't...I am willing to bet that all these new "states righters" on here couldn't even see that a state has that right...but I suppose it would be one of those "only when it suits them" type of things anyways....

[Argonath]

Why don't states that have banned gay marriage just not recognize homosexual couples as married? I mean, if a couple goes to a border state, get's married, then returns home, then why doesn't their home-state just not recognize them as married?