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On 6/29/13 11:02 AM, Eisboch wrote:

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On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 21:24:40 -0400, BAR wrote:

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On Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:18:47 -0400, "F.O.A.D."
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On 6/27/13 8:13 AM, iBoaterer wrote:
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On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 18:56:59 -0400, "F.O.A.D."
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U.S. moves one step closer to Civil War ? SCOTUS strikes down
DOMA
Freedom Outpost ^ | June 26, 2013 | Shea Bernard

The DOMA decision is not the one that will start the civil war.
SCOTUS
punting on Perry threw the question of state marriage laws back
to the
states.
You can still have a couple married in California, considered
unmarried across the line in Arizona, Nevada and Oregon.

Yes, but their rights follow them.

Well, the jury is out on that one, but it appears that if a gay
couple
from California moves to Backwardsville, Texas (that would be
the entire
state), the state of Texas does not have to recognize that marriage.
What is going to happen is that there will be many lawsuits filed
in the
states that don't recognize gay marriage, and eventually those
barriers
will come down.

That may be true in the 9th circuit but it may not go the same way in
the 11th and the court did not give them any specific guidance.

Why wouldn't my Texas issued CCW permit be honored in California?

I dunno. The same reason it is not honored in:

Connecticut, District of Columbia, Guam, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland,
Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, New York
City, Ohio, Oregon, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, Virgin Islands,
Washington, American Samoa, Illinois, N. Mariana Islands?

If a marriage "can" be force to be recognized by other states then
surely a CCW permit is
just the same.

I agree.

There is no federal law that requires one state to recognize marriages
performed in another state. What the Supremes did was rule DOMA was
unConstitutional. DOMA stipulated that certain federal financial perks
and other similar benefits accrued to only male-female married couples.

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Unless the states eventually stop worrying about where you were married
(like they do for heterosexual couples) the gay rights groups will soon
be pressing for a federal law that forces recognition of gay marriages
uniformly throughout the country.

If that happens, then I want to be able to travel anywhere in the
country carrying a firearm. Fair is fair. :-)

I don't see the feds getting into the marriage business on its own
through Congressional action, and I don't believe the Constitutional
amendment process would fly until several more generations have passed.

It would be smarter for the individual states to just move on to another
issue of great importance to Republican lawmakers, such as regulating
the loves of the women in their states. Oh, wait...they already do that.