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Let each state allow same-sex weddings, or not
[ Tortuga Bi LIBERTY comments:
Altho Cheney is generally a fascist,
his position on same-sex marriage is okay.
Marriage is indeed a state-by-state issue
(NOT federal).
Different states DO have different marriage rules
(on consanguinity, common-law, divorce, etc.).
Hey, nobody can be wrong ALL the time --
that would be a form of perfection;
unknown among humans.
Now, let's repeal the federal part of DOMA.]
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Altho Cheney is generally a fascist,
his position on same-sex marriage is okay.
Marriage is indeed a state-by-state issue
(NOT federal).
Different states DO have different marriage rules
(on consanguinity, common-law, divorce, etc.).
Hey, nobody can be wrong ALL the time --
that would be a form of perfection;
unknown among humans.
Now, let's repeal the federal part of DOMA.]
...............................
[ excerpt from AP report,
on Dick Cheney speech,
Monday, June first, 2009:]
.......
Cheney on gay marriage: 'Freedom for everyone'
By PAMELA HESS,
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON –
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he
supports gays being able to marry
but believes states, not the federal government,
should make the decision.
"I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone,"
Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club.
"I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish,
any kind of arrangement they wish."
Cheney, who has a gay daughter, said
marriage has always been a state issue.
"And I think that's the way it ought to be handled today,
that is, on a state-by-state basis.
Different states will make different decisions.
But I don't have any problem with that.
I think people ought to get a shot at that," he said.
Cheney spent most of his speech,
and during the questions and answers that followed,
defending the Bush administration's wartime policies.
[......]
[ for more, see AP]
......................
on Dick Cheney speech,
Monday, June first, 2009:]
.......
Cheney on gay marriage: 'Freedom for everyone'
By PAMELA HESS,
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON –
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he
supports gays being able to marry
but believes states, not the federal government,
should make the decision.
"I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone,"
Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club.
"I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish,
any kind of arrangement they wish."
Cheney, who has a gay daughter, said
marriage has always been a state issue.
"And I think that's the way it ought to be handled today,
that is, on a state-by-state basis.
Different states will make different decisions.
But I don't have any problem with that.
I think people ought to get a shot at that," he said.
Cheney spent most of his speech,
and during the questions and answers that followed,
defending the Bush administration's wartime policies.
[......]
[ for more, see AP]
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In fact it HAS to -- and this was one of the issues leading to our Civil War when Taney's Court threw out the Missouri Compromise (the "Dred Scott" case).
Get it? The gays and lesbians aren't campaigning for more than this, would likely settle for having to travel a bit to get married in one of the states that allows it. IF their home state had to recognize that marriage once they returned home.