[unspun]

When you start statutoring maxims of the common law known as unarguable fact for millennia, you are clearly acknowledging that a statute has precedence over fact. This is not good, especially at the federal/national level.

Yeah... well... ;-`

I'm prone to compare this with the arguments at the Constitutional Convention over implicit vs. enumerated rights. The implicit right of the people for marriage to be simply what it is and that only (Don't you hear Creation groaning?) has become threatened and alas, we need to declare it with the enumerated.

[William Terrell]

But don't you think that if we have to code inherent truths to protect them, with a form inferior to that of the truth being a basic assumption by which people live, that codification is necessarily doomed, itself?