Cynthetiq

A great topic! Thanks! I was just in Gettysburg and that's obviously one of the biggest issues central to the civil war.

I'm a big proponent of State's rights. There's 50 of them and you get to pick and choose where you want to live in order to achieve the "pursuit of happiness."

It's hard to not get the "founding fathers envisioned" because the Constitution is VERY specific as to what powers the Federal government was granted. If it wasn't a stated power it isn't theirs and belongs to the states.

So, a global marriage law is not within the realm of the Constitution, it would have to be an amendment and go through the entire amendment process also very specific process.

The way that I live in NYC has no bearing to how someone in Alaska lives or Texas. We may be similar because we have a cultural thread of TV, movies, books, and internet, but our day to day is very different in how we interact with people and the land around us.

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