Article 9 – The States
Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof.
The Supreme Court may not use this clause to force some States to honor another State unless and until a preponderance of the States shall have codified the same law. Preponderance is defined as the number of States needed to ratify an amendment. This is meant to bar the Supreme Court from legislating. We have the example of same sex marriage before us where the Supreme moved the law very much ahead of the sense of the States and the Citizens. To be clear, the Supreme Court must limit itself as well as limit the Executive and Legislative.
However, if it is a question of Natural Rights, then the Courts must come down on the side of defending Natural Rights against all usurpations. In the case of same sex marriage, the Supreme Court should have ruled for adult individuals to make any personal contract they wish. If there were laws creating barriers to same sex personal contracts, those laws should have been struck down. The Supreme Court should refuse to rule on laws about ill-defined terms like marriage which have a legal as well as a religious aspect and request Congress to resolve the issue. Congress shall take up the issue and resolve it before the case may be continued.