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The difference is that the US is a country and Europe is not. Generally speaking it might limit your liberties if one state did not recognize your spouse and an
by hotpotamus 5y ago
The difference is that the US is a country and Europe is not. Generally speaking it might limit your liberties if one state did not recognize your spouse and another did.
- pdonis 5y ago> Generally speaking it might limit your liberties if one state did not recognize your spouse and another did. That would violate the Full Faith and Credit clause of the US Constitution. Even before Obergefell v. Hodges, states that didn't allow gay couples to marry still had to honor the marriages of gay couples who were married in other states that did allow it.
- hotpotamus 5y agoWas that ever actually settled before Obergefell? My memory is that it was undecided, and Obergefell ended it pretty decisively.
- ryathal 5y agoFree movement in the EU makes that a distinction without a difference for the practical purposes though.