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To: Neeka who wrote (591044)	7/15/2004 2:25:20 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"There is no doubt that activist judges will strike down the DOMA." Maybe, maybe not. So far I don't think any challenges to the Clinton-signed DMA have gone very far in the Federal Court system. (The Mass. decision was in the State's Supreme Court, and relied entirely upon the Mass. State constitution, not the federal. DMA was not at issue.) "The timing for a constitutional amendment will come when this happens then repubs can make this a state's rights issue." That's what McCain said: the States have ALWAYS been responsible for marriage (that is, since civil marriages first began), and he saw no reason to take this away from them. Something like 12 - 13 States have already put marriage proposals on their ballots for this fall....