The Full Faith and Credit Clause

Yeah, I know that govt can be a boring class, but it is required, and today's class really rubbed me the wrong way. My professor likes to pick example topics that will get the class talking and so they are all controversial issues. Today's lecture was on the Full Faith and Credit Clause in the Constitution. For those of you that want to know, it is Article 4 Section 1. Basically it says that each state will respect public acts, records and judicial proceedings of another state. For example: If you marry someone in one state the other states should not argue it because it is a public act, you can get the records publicly, and if you were married by a JOP it is a judicial proceeding. Same with divorce, if you divorce in Missouri, you are divorced in Iowa.

Well the controversial issue here is Same Sex Marriage. I am one of the odd girls out in my class being that I am very open minded and I believe that same sex marriage should be allowed. It really makes me sad that I can marry the love of my life and one of my close friends can't. Not only is it unfair and biased, it is unconstitutional to not honor the marriage of Billy and Joe from a state that allows it when they have to move to a state that doesn't. Here is Missouri the Mo Constitution even states that they will not honor it. To me that is BS, how is it that we can pick and chose and when we back ourselves into a corner we just change it.

So anyways, we start the debate and one girl says this:

I think that they(homosexuals) can just stop being that way, it's a choice. We just need to recondition them to be the right way(straight).

WTF!?!?! So folks, now you know that we can just "recondition" anything that is "wrong" with people. My FH told me to just let if go and let her live in her "self serving world." Seriously, if someone would have said that at my old school they would have probably been tied up in the quad and stoned. Well I think that is it, I think I have run out of steam for now...

Maybe I will call one of my homosexual friends and tell them that I need to recondition them so that they are straight and then we will laugh and people who are so discriminatory.