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Among state laws, how many different definitions of “legal firearm sale” do you suppose there are? How about “legal liquor sales”? Or “capital murder”? Or any of a hundred different things regulated by state laws?

Right. There’s a little something called the Tenth Amendment, which no one serving in the U.S. government appears to have read in a while. Nor, it seems, has James Dobson:

All of these senators are smart enough to know that, first, it would create utter chaos to have 50 different definitions of marriage in one country, where every state is required by the Constitution to support the laws of the other 49. Come on, Senator McCain and company. You and your colleagues know better than that.

Was there “utter chaos” when Missourians could buy whisky on Sundays and Kansans couldn’t? Other than a little extra traffic on State Line Road in Kansas City, I doubt it.

My problem with many leftists is that they believe, deep down inside their souls, that you are too dumb or evil to determine your own government. Dobson and his ideological brethren (Saint Sam the Marriage Definer) believe this too.

UPDATE: And this line of thinking pervades the religious “Right’s” opposition to the HPV vaccine, which I told you about in detail a few months ago.

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