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TDale313

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2. That is exactly what...
Fri Jun 28, 2013, 09:34 AM
Jun 2013

The next round of fights for marriage equality will be about. At the moment, situations like yours are kinda a legal limbo. The court said the Federal Government had to treat legal same sex marriages the same way it does any other legal marriage. In the states where it's already legal, it's clear. But what about, for example, a couple that is legally married in California and is transferred to a state that doesn't recognize their marriage? What, they're unmarried? Married federally but not on the State level? It will probably take couples in this situation taking their cases to court to ask/force their new state to recognize their marriage. The recent rulings were great, and they definitely lay the groundwork for marriage equality to go nation wide. But for that to happen it'll be a state by state fight until/unless the Supreme Court clarifies.

Basically, it's TBD

Editing to add: Sorry my post doesn't have much practical answers on the "What do we do now?" Or "What does this mean for us right now?" front.

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