C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
Wrong! This is excellent news:
http://news.yahoo.com/appeals-court-halts-gay-marriages-michigan-210343159.html
Maybe the adults will take charge here and restore power to the states.
Incorrect.
The states do not have the power to deny Americans their civil liberties:
[N]ational citizenship has privileges and immunities protected from state abridgement by the force of the Constitution itself.
U.S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton, 514 U.S. 779 (1995).
Consequently, residents of a given state are first and foremost citizens of the United States, where the Federal Constitution protects their rights as citizens, in this case the 14th Amendment, from unwarranted interference by their state of residence, there is no power to restore to the states, as they never had any such power to begin with.