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Marriage law should be added to state constitution
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Oklahoma has a 1997 law that was enacted to protect the state from being forced to recognize homosexual marriages from other states. A court ruling this week in Massachusetts has hastened the day when that protection might be needed. The Bay State’s Supreme Judicial Court decided by a 4-3 vote that homosexual couples have a constitutional right to marry. Unfortunately, it’s not enough to write off such a decision as some other state’s foolishness. The U.S. Constitution’s “full faith and credit” clause requires a state to recognize a compact made in another state if it doesn’t expressly conflict with its own laws. Oklahoma’s law is supposed to protect against recognizing a same-sex marriage in that way, but will a state statute be enough? Will it stand the test of court challenges that almost certainly will come as one state and perhaps others allow homosexual marriage? More : ardmoreite.com |
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