Reply #7: Eventually it will be the law of the land in all jurisdictions of the United States.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

And the opponents will not be able to stop it.

They can't stop the application of the 14th Amendment clauses: due process clause, privileges and immunities clause, and equal protection clause. There was no reasonable state interest in stopping gay marriage in CA.

And they haven't even gotten to the Full Faith and Credit Clause, which they probably won't need to use. IOW, you get gay married in Massachusetts, you move to a state which does not recognize gay marriage, they are going to have to recognize the law of the State of Massachusetts you were married under as being valid. That has not happened yet, but a judge in Dallas County granted a gay couple married in Massachusetts a divorce, while the Texas A.G., Greg Abbott, sputtered about annulment.

This is what happened in Loving v. Virginia with respect to interracial marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Loving were married in the District of Columbia and then moved to Virginia, which had laws against miscegenation (Interracial marriage). Their marriage was NOT invalidated just because they moved to another jurisdiction.

Ironic given the tourist slogan, "Virginia is for lovers". :shrug:

Absoluely analogous.

Yes I am a lawyer but I don't play one on TV. :D

PS: Constitutional Law is a REQUIRED COURSE. I am no legal scholar and I can figure this stuff out. This gay marriage issue is really no-brainer stuff.