The U.S. Constitution by Ray Raphael

Author:Ray Raphael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2017-10-31T04:00:00+00:00

ARTICLE. IV.

SECTION. 1.

Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.

Before Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), which ruled that same-sex marriage is legal throughout the nation, advocates of same-sex marriage pointed to the first sentence: a same-sex marriage in one state should be given Full Faith and Credit in every other State. But in 1996, Congress used the second sentence to support its Defense of Marriage Act, which defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman. The framers never imagined this legal tangle.

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