The Law Is An Ass, Once Again

States that object to the recent Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage should simply ignore federal law and do as they wish in regards to marriage. The precedent for ignoring a federal law one does not like has been established and practiced shamelessly by the liberal and liberal states. Oddly enough, it is the liberal who now describes this practice as unspeakably evil any time conservatives even whisper a hint of the possibility of ignoring federal gay marriage laws. Some liberal states, such as California, ignore federal drug law and federal immigration law and hold themselves up as superior for doing so. If some states are allowed to ignore some federal laws they find objectionable why would others not have the same right? This does not really matter as there is nothing the federal government can do to force a state to comply with any particular federal law anyway. Sure, they could withhold federal funding dollars but it is better to be poor than immoral. They could send federal marshals in to force priests to perform gay marriages at gun point, county clerks to issue same-sex marriage licenses and bakers to bake gay cakes, but the optics would be bad and that is unlikely. The only option for this fiasco seems to be the liberal option of ignoring laws you do not like. cjpost