[linda_22003]

The Constitution is supposed to be about government behavior, not personal behavior. The attempt to change/outlaw one form of personal behavior was thumpingly reversed in a little more than a decade. Why do you want to change the focus of the Constitution?

[murdoog]

The Constitution is supposed to be about government behavior, not personal behavior.

Except that gay marriage is not about personal behavior. Gays can still have sex with each other without a gay marriage amendment. Gay marriage is about requiring the public to recognize gay unions to be just as legitimate as heterosexual unions.

[conservative blonde]

It is very much about government behavior when judges take it upon themselves to reverse the will of the people.

[Antoninus]

The Constitution is supposed to be about government behavior, not personal behavior. The attempt to change/outlaw one form of personal behavior was thumpingly reversed in a little more than a decade. Why do you want to change the focus of the Constitution?

The Constitution is our social contract--the agreed upon rules under which our society operates. The only ones changing anything are those groups which use the courts to ram through society-changing novelties, like homosexual marriage, without regard for what society actually wants.

The Marriage Protection Amendment simply sets limits on what we, as a society, are willing to recognize as a legitimate marriage. No homo-marriage. No-polygamous marriage. No incestuous marriage. Period. Ten years ago, the need for such an amendment would have been thought silly. Today, in the aftermath of judicially-mandated fake marriages, the need is obvious and pressing.

When the Federal Marriage Amendment passes--perhaps not this session, but the constant irritation of the homo-normalization lobby ensures that it WILL pass--it will never be overturned.