State's rights is ruse in debate

To the editor:

I have not heard the use of state's rights as an appeal since the 1950s. I thought that argument died with Strom Thurmond. Do you think all those gays and lesbians drive to San Francisco to get married in pickup trucks with Confederate flags on them?

Don't you think the state's rights appeal is a ruse and only a prelude to the final legal debate? After all, if the U.S. Supreme Court can find a constitutional right for a woman to abort her unborn infant, somewhere in the vapors of that living document must be a right for a woman to marry a woman. No wonder the proposed constitutional amendment will be fought against tooth and nail.

THEODORE J. GRIESHOP

Jackson