"Making matters worse, if Trump is elected this year he could veto any congressional attempt to reverse such a disastrous ruling of the Court by passing a law guaranteeing same sex marriage rights."

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[–] MangoKangaroo@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Question because my reading comprehension is bad: would this kill same-sex marriage nationwide, or would it just allow red states to say they won't recognize it? Not to say the latter isn't bad, I'm just curious if this would fuck over my ability to even get married in, say, Washington or Oregon.

[–] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 29 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Yeah, it essentially makes it a state issue, and each state can ban, or not, and choose to recognize marriages from other states, or not. So if you got married in Washington that might allow same-sex marriage and respect marriages from other states, and then you move to e.g. Tennessee that banned it and didn't recognize out of state marriages, your marriage essentially wouldn't exist there. I also imagine for the case of emergencies and whatnot, if you were traveling through such a state, you wouldn't be recognized as spouses, making it literally a life or death issue for travel.

It's very, very bad.

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

What an excellent scheme to keep talents away from entering the red states for a job.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

It sounds odd but that’s the point. Educated voters vote democrat.

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