That’s always what it’s been about—the redefinition of marriage. John Adams did not say in vain that the Constitution is only for “moral and religious people” and “is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”.
And how is it “matrimony” when the root of that word is “mother”?
What Adams meant was that if the People become irreligious and immoral, there is nothing in the Constitution to save them from tyranny.
While it is true that nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to impose gay marriage on the states, there is also nothing in the Constitution that prevents each state, or eventually all the states, from redefining or abolishing marriage.
Only a moral and religious people can protect THEMSELVES from abominations. In the absence of such a people, the Constitution will simply slip into desuetude.
Because the American People have accepted government schooling, the fed, the income tax, welfare, abortion, and gay marriage, the Constitution is defunct. There was never anything IN the Constitution that could prevent it.
mar·riageOrigin Middle English: from Old French mariage, from marier ‘marry.’
--from http://www.etymonline.com/
- marry (v.)
- c. 1300, "to give (offspring) in marriage,"
Societies either favor the creation of successive generations or they disappear.