[tjwmason]

Since you are all hot and bothered to pass a Federal constitutional amendment, you probably haven't even stopped to think about this: If a state chose to amend its own constitution to provide all the legal benefits of marriage to gay couples, this amendment would prevent it from being construed in that way. Directly thwarting the legislative and constitutional process.

It seems to me that the one most concerned with constitutional amendments is yourself; you have this belief that the governments of the 50 states are itching to pass constitutional amendments adding civil partnerships with legal incidents of marriage to their constitutions.

I see the higher moral position about the nature of marriage as more important than legislative or constitutional processes. As a conservative, I do not worship processes; rather I live in the real world.

[lugsoul]

"I see the higher moral position about the nature of marriage as more important than legislative or constitutional processes."

That's really the point. You don't care how it is done, as long as you ban what you view as the evil.

That may be conservative morality, but it ain't conservative politics.