[Gorobei]

Homosexuality is an aberrant stain upon society that must be addressed NOW. I am sympathetic towards states' rights, but sometimes such rights have to be set aside for the needs of the greater good. Just like certain liberties need to be curtailed by the Patriot Act so we can properly fight the new global war on terrorism.

[Northeastern_Realist]

Troll much?

[spikeytx86]

Your right, lets give the feds the right to legislate away all "Stains" and abominations to society. Government knows best right? What happens when the democrats regain control in which will happen someday whether this year or decades from now it WILL happen, they decide that guns are a stain on society, as are profits, and incomes above $100,000, property rights, and religion and they decide to cleanse society of there evil because decades earlier a republican congress gave the federal government the power to right all wrongs that "society" i.e. those in power at the time deem wrong.

[WOSG]

"am sympathetic towards states' rights, but sometimes such rights have to be set aside for the needs of the greater good."

Gee, that sounds like something Hillary would say.

This is not about denying anyone's rights.

Rather better to simply say this: Marriage has been defined as between one man and one woman for 1500 years+ in western legal codes. Affirming that in our Federal Constitution impinges on nobody's rights, but simply affirms traditional marriage for what it is, an important building block of society.