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Beck, Marriage and The State of The Union

Blair43 Wrote: Dec 10, 2012 10:40 AM

The problem lies with the Full Faith and Credit Clause, which means that then when a single state such as Massachusetts or Hawaii changes their definition of marriage, all the other States must honor this allowance. In order to get around this, DOMA acts under the Supremacy Clause, allowing the Federal Government to override the individual States' laws in order to establish a single standard.

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rmccarthy Wrote: Dec 10, 2012 11:06 AM

Seems rather obvious...people just can't agree on much of anything....ever!

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Beck, Marriage and The State of The Union

My buddy, Glenn Beck, has made a great contribution to the TEA party movement and to a renewal of popular interest in our Founding Fathers and their ideals. For all that he deserves praise.

But, I believe, he is making a serious error in abandoning the civil right of marriage. The Republican Party was founded in opposition to two historic wrongs. The party’s first platform in 1856 denounced “slavery and polygamy—the twin relics of barbarism.” Slavery was finally put down with a terrible toll—630,000 Americans dead in the Civil War. The new movie, Lincoln, tells the dramatic story of the...

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