Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
If you don't let states ban same sex marriage, you can't have others allowing it. I don't believe there is a federal law recognizing same sex marriages.

The nice thing about the state by state system is that it lets some states jump ahead of the rest of the country and test out new concepts.
But doesn't the federal government recognise state law as being, well, legal? That obviously doesn't make it federal law.

As an example a marriage performed in Massachusetts would still be legal and valid in Utah, isn't that correct?