[Destro]

amendment is code word for "we will talk about it to fire up our base but will take no action beyond calling for an amendment".

The Supreme Court already authorized congress' ability to define marriage in its ruling on polygamy. The Supreme Court in that very same decision ruled that marriage is by definitiona public act and not a private one.

I am sorry but the Republican congress and the president are either cowards - legal morons - or manipulative politicians if they claim they can not ban gay marriage without an almost impossible to get amendment to the constitution.

[LS]

No, I am sorry. You apparently didn't read the Lawrence decision, because the court clearly said that in fact statute law won'd do it. And "amendment" is code word for "amendment." There have been more than 20 of them.