Why not leave red-hot social issues up to the states?

It seems like a lot fo the polarizing issues of our time are the big social ones: guns, gays, abortion, same sex marriage, etc. It seems to me they are getting in the way of our addressing the really big issues: our place in the world, health care, job loss etc.

Of course we have this to some degree now, but there is so much pressure to make the country homogenious (no reference intended) that it feels like we are hung up on trying to make us all alike when we are not.

Why not let all the states address these issues and keep the feds out? If you want to live in a ultra conservative place you go there. If you want a liberal atmosphere you move there. Isnt this then the "land of the free"? Would this not relieve some of the red-blue tension?

Yes, social issues need to be left to the states!

Abortion, marriage, guns, etc.....were at one time regulated BY THE STATES!!

Well, since it is blatantly obvious you are Gay and wanting Gay Marriage-the Benefits you are actually after are given at the Federal level!

As a member of a Church that has been around longer than there even were WASPs, let me remind you that Marriage is a Sacrament bestowed on a Sexually compatible Couple, to help in God's gift of blessed Life!

To someone like me, anything short of a Marriage with the sacrament bestowed is not really a decent marriage in the first place!

Please for the love of God, even if (Surprise to no one) you do not believe in it, do not make the issue of marriage any worse than it has already become-PLEASE!