TheKingOfRhye
And if Alabama voted to ban interracial marriage, how long do you think that would last?

afchief
As long as the people of Alabama vote for it!!!

TheKingOfRhye
You're telling me the federal government wouldn't step in and say "no, you can't do that"?

afchief
There is no legal right for the feds to do so. If the majority of people of Alabama want this law, then they have spoken. It is law.

TheKingOfRhye
The will of the people of Alabama overrules the United States Constitution?

afchief
Marriage is NOT mentioned in the Constitution. The feds have NO right to hear the case. That is why 30 states had it in their Constitutions that marriage is between one man and one woman in accordance with the 10th amendment.

Three states put homo marriage in their Constitutions. That is how the law works. The people vote for a law or the legislative branch makes law.

That is how laws are made and changed and struck down in America. There is NO other way.

gizmo23
What if a state said all churches will be taxed double the rate for everyone else or every unmarried pregnant women must get an abortion you would support it ?

afchief
First the people have to get enough petitions to get it on a ballot. Then the will (vote) of the people have to approve it. It becomes law!!!

gizmo23
And you would be OK with any law they would pass

afchief
I never said I would be OK, but it would be the law.

gizmo23
So all rights come from the majority of people that vote for them. now I get it.

afchief
Straw man argument.