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I thought the position Sen. Cruz took on same-sex marriage is that because it raises no constitutional issues, it is strictly a matter for each state to decide. What a resident of any state thinks of any other state's policy on that matter should be irrelevant.
It can't be irrelevant because of reciprocity. If a couple marries in one state all the other states are supposed to honor that. The pressure to make it a national issue is pretty high because none of the states have the power to ban it if one state does not. If the gays in state A, where gay marriage is not legal, just go to state B to get married then state A de facto has gay marriage.