Yeah, but some states isn't enough. The moment you leave that state, the validity of your marriage is up in the air. No one should have to settle for being officially married in certain areas like a state-sized closet.
If two people commit to each other in such a binding fashion, it behooves the rest of us to at least give them the rights that come with their commitment, as we would give any heterosexual marriage.
Yeah, but some states isn't enough. The moment you leave that state, the validity of your marriage is up in the air. No one should have to settle for being officially married in certain areas like a state-sized closet.
Plus, the Fourteenth Amendment essentially prohibits leaving civil rights up to individual states. If something is considered a right in the United States, the Constitution requires that it be protected as a right everywhere in the United States. Marriage was established as a right in 1954 in Loving v Virginia.
Yeah, but some states isn't enough. The moment you leave that state, the validity of your marriage is up in the air. No one should have to settle for being officially married in certain areas like a state-sized closet.
If two people commit to each other in such a binding fashion, it behooves the rest of us to at least give them the rights that come with their commitment, as we would give any heterosexual marriage.
Plus, the Fourteenth Amendment essentially prohibits leaving civil rights up to individual states. If something is considered a right in the United States, the Constitution requires that it be protected as a right everywhere in the United States. Marriage was established as a right in 1954 in Loving v Virginia.