[PISANO]

And I think there will be..

It will be a monumental effort. If you remember the ERA didn't make it, and that had TREMENDOUS support throughout the country. Actually if NOT for Phillis Schafley's efforts it would have succeeded. It is very difficult to get 2/3's +1 in both the House and Senate but it is almost impossible to get 3/4 ths of the State Legistlatures to ratify.

[Always Right]

It is very difficult to get 2/3's +1 in both the House and Senate but it is almost impossible to get 3/4 ths of the State Legistlatures to ratify.

On this issue it will be. I think it will be the biggest slam dunk Constitutional Amendment ever passed. The defense of marriage will have far more support than ERA ever had.

[jwalsh07]

Hawaii, a liberal state, overturned their Supreme Court by constitutional amendment when thet HSC, in direct contravention of the will of the people, ruled homosexual "marriage" Constitutional.

California, another liberal state, passed a referundum overwhelimingly defining marriage as between a man and a woman. If those states are a bellweather, a Marriage amendment will sail through.

[aristeides]

It is very difficult to get 2/3's +1 in both the House and Senate but it is almost impossible to get 3/4 ths of the State Legistlatures to ratify.

You're ignoring the alternate method the Constitution provides for ratifying an amendment. Congress can specify that ratification is to be by state legislatures, as it usually does, but it can only specify that it is to be by state conventions. In the one case where the latter method was adopted, the 21st Amendment, the conventions were popularly elected, and ratification was accomplished within the short period of around nine months. I think it is most unlikely that the necessary 1/4 + 1 of state conventions would be elected that would be needed to block ratification of a federal marriage amendment.

[B Knotts]

It will be a monumental effort. If you remember the ERA didn't make it, and that had TREMENDOUS support throughout the country. Actually if NOT for Phillis Schafley's efforts it would have succeeded. It is very difficult to get 2/3's +1 in both the House and Senate but it is almost impossible to get 3/4 ths of the State Legistlatures to ratify.

I think it could be accomplished if it is done as quickly as possible, with this decision fresh in people's minds.

[B Knotts]

It will be a monumental effort. If you remember the ERA didn't make it, and that had TREMENDOUS support throughout the country. Actually if NOT for Phillis Schafley's efforts it would have succeeded. It is very difficult to get 2/3's +1 in both the House and Senate but it is almost impossible to get 3/4 ths of the State Legistlatures to ratify.

I think it could be accomplished if it is done as quickly as possible, with this decision fresh in people's minds.