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Marriage and the law: understood properly, the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution actually protects the right of states to refuse to recognize same-sex "marriages" legitimized in other states.(Constitution Corner)
In the press, on talk radio, and on television, self-styled conservatives and liberals alike are warning Americans that the forced recognition of homosexual "marriage" is inevitable because of the requirements of the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution. That is to say, a homosexual couple who is legally "married" in one state, Massachusetts for example, would have the right to have that union legally validated in all the other 49 states because the Constitution requires such reciprocity among the states.
Because of this supposed constitutional dictate, many who oppose legalizing homosexual unions support an amendment to the U.S. Constitution ...
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