> “Marriage is a states’ and local issue.”
As of today, January 29, 2016, the above is not the case.
Anthony Kennedy, a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by Ronald Reagan after he had craftily lied about his views of the judiciary, decided last year that marriage is a federal issue.
You’re living in the Constitutional era when in ***fact*** you are in denial that we are living in the post-Constitutional era.
In theory, a Constitutional era can be resurrected but Washington DC will never amend the Constitution to define marriage. Only the states via Article V of the Constitution can have the will to amend the Constitution to define marriage, or in the alternative, a better lasting solution, to create by amendment a 30-state quash authority to void and nullify any action, ruling or directive of the federal government.
Well then you’re one of the ones who have given up on your freedom. I will never give up.
As far as marriage goes, it is completely outside the constitutional power of the feds. You need no constitutional amendment. You just need to enforce constitutional limitations on the feds and you do that by state action which can be accomplished immediately. A well-run convention of states (CoC) could do some good, but not here because again, marriage is outside legitimate federal action. Constitutional amendments that reiterate the Constitution tend to weaken it.
Good luck.