[goldstategop]

Actually the FMA would preserve federalism by leaving the issue of civil unions up to the state legislature. I can't think of anything more pro-state's rights. But to hear the Democrats talk, to trust the representatives of the people is to slide down into despotism.

[Bahbah]

"Actually the FMA would preserve federalism by leaving the issue of civil unions up to the state legislature."

YES.

[lugsoul]

That's a good answer, except that it contradicts the very language of the amendment. The amendment would prohibit any state constitution from being construed to grant the "legal incidents" of marriage to a homosexual couple. So that if, for example, the Hawaii constitution required that same sex "civil unions" receive all of the legal benefits of marriage, the FMA would prohibit such a construction.