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Originally Posted by ChristopherHall
I understand your logic, but it doesn’t cut the Constitutional mustard...
The issue with this particular subject is that you have two citizens arguing that they want to have the right to marry “whoever” they like period. Now the question becomes; does civil government have the right to tell people who they can or cannot marry? This was already visited in the Supreme Court, I believe it was in 1969 (Lovings vs. Virginia?).
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First of all, California did not strike this down based on the US Constitution, but on the California Constitution. Your analogy being a religious one obviously crosses up with the First Amendment. The problem that you fail to see is they already had the right to a civil union in CA, the term marriage was reserved for unions between people of the opposite sex. This is an attempt to force other states that have DOMA to be forced into accepting same-sex marriages through full faith and credit.
YES!!! The state does have the right to restrict who you marry...
They have age restrictions.
You can't marry your kids, grandparents, cousins, etc.
You can't marry if you are already married.
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