Having either the federal or state governments regulate marriage is not anybody’s preference. Sen. Cruz is talking like he does not understand the Founding States’ division of federal and state government powers.
The Founding States made the 10th Amendment to clarify that the Constitution’s silence about things like marriage, abortion, euthenasia, etc., means that such issues are automatically uniquely state power issues. State power to regulate euthanasia, for example, is basically why the Supreme Court did not interfere in the Terri Shiavo case imo.
You forgot OR TO THE PEOPLE