No joke intended. Those are the majority of problems leading to the the very goals you listed:
Marriages between men and women provide the stable legal, social and moral basis on which to raise families and nurture children. No other arrangement has been shown to be better for raising children to be productive and successful members of society.
So why is what I listed as additions to the amendment a joke? Aren't those other "living arrangements" not marriage? How do they contribute to what you want?
We need to enlarge state's rights to allow bigamy, sex (and what the hell, marriage) between adults and children.
Thanks, but I'll pass. Guess you really didn't want to address that after all.
Look, you can pretend to make your state's rights appeal to "true conservatives" till you're blue in the face.
That's three mistakes in one simple sentence. First I'm not pretending. I'm for real. Look for me on all of these FMA threads. Second there are no states' rights. States have powers. Persons have rights. Finally, most conservatives I've met have a deep appreciation for federalism and a constitutional republic. They don't resort to their own personal set of values and biases to impact the just powers of those states they do not reside in. Finally, I've run into quite a few interesting folks here, but not a lot of conservatives. Don't confuse either theocrats or dictators with the term conservative.
Your protesting otherwise is about as believable as the gay rights advocate who wrote the article heading this thread peddling his tripe as a "conservative argument".
As I recall, you posted to me complaining of my position. Wouldn't that make you the protester? As for "gay rights" they have exactly the same rights as you or I do. Kinda hurts now, don't it. Imagine, due process, right of association, privacy, equal protection under the law...who do they think they are...citizens?
http://www.bartleby.com/65/st/statesri.html
Now. Instead of your stupid avoiding, try answering the substance of my argument. I say a Constitutional Amendment, first and foremost, represents an expression of the will of the people that has to meet very high hurdles, including approval by three-fourths of...the States. The result is a Federal power, but the process is not of a Federal power usurping state's rights. Get the difference?
Sure you do. But you'll go off on some stupid tangent anyway. But that's okay. 'Cause you're one of the only 'real' conservatives on FR. Really you are. Really.
"As for "gay rights" they have exactly the same rights as you or I do. Kinda hurts now, don't it."
It does hurt...laughing. It seems gays have even more rights than the rest of us. They have the right to change the fundamental meaning of whole viable and socially constructive institutions to suit their whims.
And their transgender friends have even greater powers! They can transcend their genders! They can magically change from male to female and female to male, and the rest of us are obliged to recognoize this amazing ability.
Keep going. You're a regular Ronald Reagan.