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If you were part of a minority group that didn't have equal rights would you still consider it an unimportant issue that should only be resolved when we have no other problems? I tend to find that people who overly emphasize the "states rights" aspect of SSM actually just don't want it to happen at all and hope their state can squeak by without it. If your state made an unconstitutional law say, that Christians couldn't marry, would you be just as upset if the federal government stepped in and overruled them?
You pose an interesting point. Sure I might be upset. Especially if the government were making laws against a LARGE PERCENTAGE of the population. I might be upset regardless of who they are. And it would probably impact how I vote. But I don't really care what happens in your experience. It has no basis on the way I feel. I don't like the federal government defining marriage. I personally think that marriage shouldn't be the definition used. I think it should be a civil union for all so that ANYONE can get "married" and that all the government does is approve a contract that says "you can have this that and the other."
And sure you will probably argue that that is what marriage is, but NO it isn't. Not in this day. It isn't just a government contract anymore. It has to do with love. In the instance I am discussing something that would expand the contract to anyone and would not imply love. You can have a celebration celebrating your love and the government won't be involved in your bedroom/love life at all. I hate the government.
I also feel the state debate is more logical because it is a power that is granted to the state. So the state should regulate it. And the state has a better understanding of what the people of the state want than the fed does. I hate when laws are made bigger than they should be. A local law should be local. A state law for the state. A federal law for the fed.
But I digress: if this were a state issue it would have passed many many times by now. And it is starting to pass in many states. And maybe our federal elections should be decided on fiscal policies, foreign policies, and other things that are powers granted to the fed. Ya know? The way it is supposed to be?