Cosmoline
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I guess states not allowing folks to vote or banning the legal sanctions of marriage based on race was quite OK.
If by "OK" you mean "constitutional" then yes it was "OK".
Not after the 14th was enacted it wasn't.
I believe that we also need a federal amendment to the US Constitution. How can Virginians define our society and culture if other States can force homosexual marriage upon us?
Your concern might justify a modification of the FF&C clause, but it would never justify preempting marriage and making it a federal issue by actively preventing any state from recognizing same sex marriages.
The whole thing is a STRAW MAN. Wake up.
The States did not delegate juridiction over our basic rights to the US.
They did when they ratified the 14th. Or are you one of the people who deny that the 14th was ever really ratified and think we should go up to black men and say "Come with me! You are my slave now."