States Should Keep Call on Same-Sex Marriages

We are an American society, and at times look for answers to include all of our nation.

But, we do have a Constitution complete with Article 1, Section 8, and the 10th Amendment, which give much authority to states. This is not something new, just coming with the advent of advocates of states rights in recent years. That the attitude for states rights has been around is evident in that different states have different laws on the very topic I would talk to you about now.

Even as Obama was about to come out with his statement favoring same-sex marriages, North Carolina voters were passing a state constitutional amendment saying marriage is between a man and a woman. In Washington, an proposed initiative had gathered half the signatures needed to put it on the ballot.

Those two states were considering the issue because it is a state matter. Obama might speak, selling a policy to the nation as a whole, but it is the states that should decide, simply because that is what the Constitution calls for. I have argued that the cry of the public is cry enough to allow such marriages, but when I consider what the Constitution says, I say, Let it be a state by state matter, based on the voice of the people in each state.