Denis

Article IV, Section 1 - Full Faith and Credit Clause

I find this clause intriguing and possibly contradictory. The import is that the laws of one state must be recognized as legitimate by every other state. So if gay marriage is legal in Massachussets, the state of Utah would have to recognize those unions....is this correct? Has this been the way it works out? Also, the idea that states are allowed to write their own laws but that those laws can be trumped by the US Constitution, i.e, a federal document, is a strange tension.