So the way I interpret Article IV is that the STATES have to give full faith and credit. The federal govt. isn't a state, they don't have to recognize these marriages. I can't imagine that doing that doesn't fall afoul of some other part of the constitution or law,.
I guess for me it just seems really unfair to say "You may be married is the eyes of the states, but not in the eyes of the federal government because you're a man married to a man or a woman married to a woman." For sure that's discrimination based on gender.
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