TO THE EDITOR:
            Re “Court Weighs Who Defends Proposition 8” (page A18, Sept. 7):

The issue of same-sex marriage is getting too drawn out. This should be a decision made by the federal government, not by the states. When it is made by the states we have different rulings all over the country, which ultimately leads to more problems.

The primary problem is that when two people of the same sex get married in a state where it is legal, I don’t know if that marriage is allowed/acknowledged in a state where same sex marriage is banned.

This question should have been answered in the article. Are the same-sex marriages that took place in California, before Proposition 8, still seen as valid marriages by the state?

ERIC OSLUND
Bemidji, Minn., Sept. 7, 2011