Which department of the government would be in charge of enforcing anti-gay marriage laws?

I'm doing a paper for government class on gay marriage, and I need to know which department of the government would be in charge of enforcing a law banning gay marriage. The law would ban all gay marriage and would consider all gay marriages invalidated.Which department of the government would be in charge of enforcing anti-gay marriage laws?
Department of homeland security!Which department of the government would be in charge of enforcing anti-gay marriage laws?
Marriage is a custom of human circumstance and condition. This is a cultural and community guideline that supersedes statutory sanctions.





Community acceptance or rejection of gay or anti-gay relationships is more valid than governmental legislation.





Research traditional society to discover perspective on government and law. Law enforcement is local.
It would be the individual city halls and county clerks all over the country. Anyone already married would be grand fathered in though because we do not allow ex post facto law, or in other words, you can not be made a criminal by a law being passed after the fact.
Department of the Interior Decorators.





DID, so you wont. =8^)
The Deparment of Homeland Security. They are a threat to our nation and should be treated like terrorist. The punishment should be waterboarding.
There wouldn't be one specifically for a gay marriage ban per se.





The IRS would handle false claims of marriage on tax returns.


Insurance companies would handle their own stuff either by denying claims or prosecuting false claims.





You see there is very little government involvement in marriage. Honestly a person can have a marriage ceremony of any type that they want ... say to a tree ... and the government will only get involved when it steps into it's little world of control.
tHE DEPARTMENT OF BEND OVER
If there aren't any, then they'll most likely create one just for that. Just like the Department of Energy under Carter.
1. Citizens are the members of the political community to which they belong. They are the people who compose the community, and who, in their associated capacity, have established or submitted themselves to the dominion of a government for the promotion of their general welfare and the protection of their individual, as well as their collective, rights. The duty of a government to afford protection is limited always by the power it possesses for that purpose.





2. There is in our political system a government of each of the several States, and a Government of the United States. Each is distinct from the others, and has citizens of its own who owe it allegiance, and whose rights, within its jurisdiction, it must protect. The same person may be at the same time a citizen of the United States and a citizen of a State, but his rights of citizenship under one of those governments will be different from those he has under the other.





3. The Government of the United States, although it is, within the scope of its powers, supreme and beyond the States, can neither grant nor secure to its citizens rights or privileges which are not expressly or by implication placed under its jurisdiction. All that cannot be so granted or secured are left to the exclusive protection of the States.





4. The right of the people peaceably to assemble for lawful purposes, with the obligation on the part of the States to afford it protection, existed long before the adoption of the Constitution. The First Amendment to the Constitution, prohibiting Congress from abridging the right to assemble and petition, was not intended to limit the action of the State governments in respect to their own citizens, but to operate upon the National Government alone. It left the authority of the States unimpaired, added nothing to the already existing powers of the United States, and guaranteed the continuance of the right only against Congressional interference. The people, for their protection in the enjoyment of it, must therefore look to the States, where the power for that purpose was originally placed.





5. The right of the people peaceably to assemble for the purpose of petitioning Congress for a redress of grievances, or for anything else connected with the powers or duties of the National Government, is an attribute of national citizenship, and, as such, under the protection of and guaranteed by the United States. The very idea of a government republican in form implies that right, and an invasion of it presents a case within the sovereignty of the United States.





6. The right to bear arms is not granted by the Constitution; neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence. The Second Amendments means no more than that it shall not be infringed by Congress, and has no other effect than to restrict the powers of the National Government.





7. Sovereignty, for the protection of the rights of life and personal liberty within the respective States, rests alone with the States.





8. The Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, and from denying to





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any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws, but it adds nothing to the rights of one citizen as against another. It simply furnishes an additional guaranty against any encroachment by the States upon the fundamental rights which belong to every citizen as a member of society. The duty of protecting all its citizens in the enjoyment of an equality of rights was originally assumed by the States, and it still remains there. The only obligation resting upon the United States is to see that the States do not deny the right. This the Amendment guarantees, but no more. The power of the National Government is limited to the enforcement of this guaranty.





9. In @ 88 U. S. 214, it held that the Fifteenth Amendment has invested the citizens of the United States with a new constitutional right, which is exemption from discrimination in the exercise of the elective franchise on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude. The right to vote in the States comes from the States; but the right of exemption from the prohibited discrimination comes from the United States. The first has not been granted or secured by the Constitution of the United States, but the last has been.
There is none. In order to get married you need to get a marriage license from the government. You would go to city hall to do this, I believe. I have never gotten married ;). But that is where a gay couple would be disallowed from getting married - they would be unable to get a marriage license.