Re: [UUPoly-L] Poly reality

["Catherine Deville" <catdeville@cox.net>]

Dave said:
<<If we can keep  "home rule", it  works like this:  If we want tighter gun
controls, let either cities or states set them, not the federal government.
Then people can naturally move, leave those places that are just "too bad,
or too strict for them.  Another example:  If we let states set the marriage
standards, and whether gays and lesbians may marry if they choose (not just
civil unions), then gays may move to those states that allow them to marry,
and avoid those that do not.   >>

The problem with that, and the federal legislators know it, is that allowing
same sex marriage in one state opens up Interstate Commerce constitutional
arguments which compel other states to acknowledge that marriage.  That
precedent was established in the 60s when that constitutional provision was
used to strike down the laws prohibiting "colored persons" and "white
persons" from marrying.