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 @534afeaa I remember when my state was considering its own "defense of marriage" act. Before the SCOTUS smothered those laws in their crib and rendered the whole conversation legally moot.

They always try to tell you the worst case scenarios won't happen. That's in the playbook.

It's incumbent upon the educated public to both game out the worst-case abuses of the law (because someone will choose to use the law as a cudgel; someone always does) and to recognize that downplaying those risks is always the play the supporters will make.