Having legal gay marriage in some states + not in others is America not creating a 2 tiered system? How does this work? if U R married in 1 state but travelling in another? How can the law be different in different states?What does this mean?
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It means that the union will not be recognized in the other states and any benefits you will aplly for as a married person will not be available. Mr Bill
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What an excellent question! Yes, not only is it creating a two-tiered system between the states where any two consenting unrelated adults can marry (MA and CT), but it is creating marriage discrimination in the rest of the states. This is because marriage, which has been fundamentally a LEGAL STATUS administered by the STATE for the last few hundred years, is available only to some citizens and not others (to marry the person they choose). This despite the US Constitution, which is supposed to support equal rights for all . . . that's why we need this to be decided once and for all on the FEDERAL level. Fortunately, we have a new President coming into office that may be amenable to wording toward such a solution. Basically, the way it works is, while you are in the state that allows such marriages, the marriage is legal. Once you leave the state, it is not. Pretty awful, huh?
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