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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [qb] Ok, I might come off sounding like an evil ignorant foreigner, but how can a marriage be valid in one part of the country, but not the other? I realise you lot a certain laws for certain states but the legal recognition of a marriage seams like a "biggie" to me. [/qb][/QUOTE]Marriage rights are handled at the state level with slight vararitions from state to state- there are slight diffrences in divorce laws as well. In this case, a contraversial California Supreme Court decision that had recognized same-sex marriage in California as a fundamental right. In response, The Mormon Church of California and aligned church organizations attained enough signatures to take up a ballot amendment to the state's constitution to trump the sate's supreme court's ruling- which they did and it sadly passed....possibly invalidating the thousands of same-sex marriages performed since the supreme court's initial ruling. [URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposition_8]Or read about it here.[/URL] Also, the Mormon Church made contributions to the fund supporting Prop 8 mandatory- thus possibly imperiling their tax-exempt status by useing religion to influence voters and the state's political process. It's amazng the passion some people feel to take away other people's right to be happy. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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