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This author points out that the greatest harm to marriage comes from the current divorce and custody laws. That is where reform is most urgently needed and it requires no constitutional amendments.

That reform is in no way exclusive of the need to prevent the redefinition of marriage. Thankfully, this can all occur in the realm of the legislative, but the divorce and custody reform movement needs to build up momentum.

It is more urgent (even if not as important) to put up a defense against the redefinition movement that already has momentum, and the unfair advantage of judicial activism.

The divorce and custody laws have turned the institution of marriage in a joke, and an financially and emotionally costly one at that. The lives of tens of millions of men and their children have been completely turned upside down. Where was the defense of marriage crowd when that was happening? A lot of them couldn't be bothered with their problems. I'll even go out on a limb and assert that many of them were cheering on the movement that labeled every father a "deadbeat" and made them visitors in the lives of their children.

I hope the defense or marriage people aren't seriously expecting those of us that have been (and still are being) screwed over by what is called marriage today to carry any of their water after society as a whole has turned it's back on us. From our perspective, what's left of this "institution" isn't anything we're going to get worked up to defend.