Comments on: Should Liberals Champion States’ Rights? http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/03/should-liberals-champion-states-rights/ The Tenther Grapevine Sat, 25 May 2013 16:02:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chuck Anziulewicz http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/2010/03/should-liberals-champion-states-rights/#comment-2330 Chuck Anziulewicz Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:39:27 +0000 http://blog.tenthamendmentcenter.com/?p=3550#comment-2330 For those who suggest that the issue of marriage is best left up to the states, it's important to remember that the federal government has a vested interest in married couples for the purposes of income taxes and Social Security benefits. From the fed's point of view, it wouldn't do for a couple to be considered married in one state, then magically "UN-married" once they decide to move somewhere else.

As it is right now, any heterosexual couple can fly off to Las Vegas for a drunken weekend and get married by an Elvis impersonator, and that marriage will be automatically honored in all 50 states, no questions asked. And the federal government will bestow 1,138 legal benefits, protections, and responsibilities on that couple (according to the Government Accounting Office). But Gay couples are held to a different standard. This is why the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is transparently unconstitutional.

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