Not only is the Amendment dead, it was never breathing to begin with. It is at least 19 votes short, and probably 25 votes short in reality, when you consider that (at a minimum) 5 or 6 "yea" voting Senators would be unwilling to be the 67th vote to put it over the top. That kind of swing has never occurred.
Gay marriage in some form has been likely since "Roemer v. Evans" was handed down in 1996 and inevitable since "Lawrence v. Texas" was handed down in 2003.
Justice Stevens has given every indication that he will never retire while a Republican is in office, and he's the only superannuated Justice among the Roemer and Lawrence majority. In any event, Chuck Schumer will filibuster to stop any appointments of Justices who would vote to reverse the trend ... and Republicans are 7 votes away from breaking any filibusters. If Bush were to be re-elected on the Electoral College while losing the popular vote again (an ever-increasing probability, in my opinion), Schumer will probably filibuster any Bush Supreme Court appointee no matter what.
you are giving up way to easily. there are plenty of confirmable justice candidates out there who would not be fillibustered, who would vote differently on gay marriage issues then some of the current court members.
"Justice Stevens has given every indication that he will never retire while a Republican is in office"
Willingly. God might have other plans for him.