Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> In article <fur25p$amd$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
> 
>> Here's an interesting paradox:  If President McCain puts a couple more
>> conservative justices on the SCotUS, states could resume enforcing
anti-
>> sodomy laws.  I suspect that a Massachusetts marriage license will not
>> be an adequate defense.
>> 
> 
> Going back a bit ... . Is it clear why, in the days when divorce was 
> difficult, other states were willing to recognize Reno divorces, 
> although currently states are unwilling to recognize Massachusetts same 
> *** marriages? Is the difference in the legal nature of the problem vis 
> a vis full faith and credit, or in the politics.

IANAL, but I think the idea is that the marriage/divorce has to be
recognized as valid under the laws of one state even if performed in
another state, but doesn't confer the rights and responsibilities it
would have conferred in the other state. I think the current idea,
untested in law AFAIK, is to rewrite the law so that the rights and
responsibilities of marriage are only conferred in the case of "one man
and one woman".

	Robert
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