Discuss how the issue of same-sex marriage has made the constitutional mandate of the full faith and credit clause difficult to follow. What actions has the federal government taken in this regard?
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary. The Constitution's full faith and credit clause requires each state to honor every other state's public acts, records, and judicial proceedings. This constitutional mandate posed a problem in the years from 2004 to 2015, when same-sex marriage was legal in some-but not all-of the states. Already in 1996, members of Congress feared that one or more states might recognize such marriages. If a gay couple was legally married in one state, would all the others be forced to recognize the marriage? To prevent this result, Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which provided that no state was required to treat a relationship between persons of the same sex as a marriage, even if the relationship was considered a marriage in another state. A second part of the law barred the national government from recognizing same-sex marriages in states that legalized them. The constitutionality of both parts of the law was subject to debate.
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