Simple Same Sex Marriage Question

[Valin]

TRR:

 

I have not seen this question asked anywhere, Cathy and Susan fall in love, a love such as the world has never seen. So get married in Massachusetts then 3 years later move to Mississippi, Are the still legally married?

If not, the questions is if you and your Wife/Husband move to another state do you have to get remarried?

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Wedding Bells

 

by Jeffrey Toobin April 1, 2013

 

In 2003, the Supreme Court decided that gay people could no longer be thrown in prison for having consensual sex. Specifically, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s opinion, in Lawrence v. Texas, declared that Texas’s anti-sodomy law “demeans the lives of homosexual persons” and violated the right to liberty guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. But Kennedy was careful to describe the limits of the Court’s holding. He wrote that the case “does not involve whether the government must give formal recognition to any relationship that homosexual persons seek to enter.” In other words, in Kennedy’s telling, Lawrence v. Texas was not about same-sex marriage.

To which Justice Antonin Scalia responded, in a dissenting opinion, “Do not believe it.” He explained:

The Court will hear two cases. The first weighs the constitutionality of Proposition 8, the measure passed by voters in California that ended the state’s brief experiment with marriage equality; the second is a challenge to the exquisitely ill-named Defense of Marriage Act, the 1996 law that bars the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages even in states where they are legal. The two cases present variations on the same fundamental question: Is there any circumstance in which the state can deny gay people benefits that are granted to straight citizens? http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2013/04/01/130401taco_talk_toobin

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By: Benjamin Wiker

3/25/2013 08:56 AM

 

 

Author and speaker Benjamin Wiker, Ph.D. has published eleven books, his newest being Worshipping the State: How Liberalism Became Our State Religion. His website is www.benjaminwiker.com

 

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As the Supreme Court hears arguments for and against gay marriage we might stand back from the whole judicial fracas and ask ourselves a larger and hopefully more startling question: “What is the government doing deciding what marriage is?”

 

This is really two questions in one. First, how did it come to be that we, as a culture, are in a position where something seemingly so natural, something that existed long before any governments were around, is now up for debate? Second, why is it that we would look to a branch of the government to settle that debate?

 

The answer to the first question is rather complex. For centuries (not just decades) liberalism has been picking away at the Christian foundations of Western culture. Liberalism is, in essence, http://www.humanevents.com/2013/03/25/god-gay-marriage-and-the-imperial-court/

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Updated March 24, 2013, 5:37 p.m. ET

Marriage and the Supreme Court

The Justices should not pre-empt an evolving cultural debate best settled democratically.

This week the Supreme Court takes up same-sex marriage, amid shifting American mores and a healthy debate about equality. Yet the two cases before the High Court are less about the institution of marriage than the sanctity of democratic institutions and the proper role of the courts.

Over time, through popular consent, the law comes to reflect an evolving social consensus. On gay marriage, state by state, election by election, voters are extending to gay and lesbian couples the same rights and responsibilities that pertain to a union between a man and a woman. Those choices are the pith of self-government, even if fair-minded voters in other states preserve the traditional meaning.

If the Supreme Court now reads a right to gay marriage into the Constitution and imposes that definition on all states,

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324103504578374401098039218.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

[Valin]

Updated March 24, 2013, 5:37 p.m. ET

Marriage and the Supreme Court

The Justices should not pre-empt an evolving cultural debate best settled democratically.

This week the Supreme Court takes up same-sex marriage, amid shifting American mores and a healthy debate about equality. Yet the two cases before the High Court are less about the institution of marriage than the sanctity of democratic institutions and the proper role of the courts.

Over time, through popular consent, the law comes to reflect an evolving social consensus. On gay marriage, state by state, election by election, voters are extending to gay and lesbian couples the same rights and responsibilities that pertain to a union between a man and a woman. Those choices are the pith of self-government, even if fair-minded voters in other states preserve the traditional meaning.

If the Supreme Court now reads a right to gay marriage into the Constitution and imposes that definition on all states,

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324103504578374401098039218.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

 

First Thanks for these posts.

Second They don't answer my simple question

Nine states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Iowa, Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, Maryland, Maine, and Washington have same sex marriage. So the question is if a homosexual couple get legally married in Iowa and move to Mn.? Are they still married, given the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the Constitution & if they are not does this also apply to opposite sex marriage? Point being, if you and your wife move from texas to Ohio you're still married with all that entails.

So once Massachusetts legalized same sex marriage, the whole question became moot. I have not seen this question asked.

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TRR:

 

I have not seen this question asked anywhere, Cathy and Susan fall in love, a love such as the world has never seen. So get married in Massachusetts then 3 years later move to Mississippi, Are the still legally married?

If not, the questions is if you and your Wife/Husband move to another state do you have to get remarried?

Question about Cathy/Susan -- At this time Mississippi does not recognize gay marriage or any type of union between same-sex partners. (the same goes for Texas)

Marriage between a man/women whether Justice of the peace/chuch is recognize thought out the United States No Matter which state it took place in.