Well, that would protect the word 'marriage,' but in either case it would be denying some people due process. The due process I refer to is following the proper rules for gaining legal access and recognition.
If the attempt fails, as I mentioned it might, at least the group cannot claim deprivation of rights or denial of due process. Let the people decide. Not the courts or Congress. Else we're going to have a group of some very unhappy people out there who are going to feel dis-enfranchised. We have a system that will insure equality to all. Give them an opportunity to use it, without destroying the meaning and institution of marriage.
Maybe in another hundred years, the people might get used to the idea of homosexual 'relationships' and regard them on par to married folks and the Jim and Jim Crow laws will fade into oblivion. ;>
I've suggested in the past they use another word to describe their relationship. Even a fabricated word, such as 'smerge,' for instance. If they want to get smerged, let them get smerged and live in a state of smergiage. If they want to smerge each other and be on legal par with similar partnerships, let them push for an amendment that will recognize and ackowledge their class as smerged folks.
Any more than anti-polygamy laws violate due process?
Destroy the meaning of the word 'marriage'and you have destroyed civilization itself.
No other insitution is as important to a society as marriage, that is why the Left has attacked it with easy divorce laws and now homosexual 'marriage'