[Luis Gonzalez]

"But we are going to lose the whole stinking war unless we engage the battles where the enemy is waging them."

And the enemy is waging this war at the State level.

[FormerLib]

And how many states have now passed laws stating that marriage is between a man and a woman? (They better get started passing laws stating that grass is green as well!)

Wanna bet the homo activists attempt to use the federal government to attack them?

I'll wait to see you on the front lines defending against that!

[NutCrackerBoy]

The enemy is waging this war at the State level.

And I am fighting the enemy in my state (Massachusetts). You make simplistic arguments against the FMA by evoking the fear of federal government taking over marriage. It wouldn't destroy federalism in marriage law.

The FMA has words; these words have meaning. If you read it and eschew the type of caricature favored by opposers of the Patriot Act, you may agree the FMA would clarify things. Like many proposed constitutional amendments these days, national and state, it is mainly aimed to reign in judiciaries.

Also, the FMA may not have to be brought to full fruition for it to have a preemptive effect. Then it again, it may.