Umm, nothing stops them from doing that now, my FRiend.
how does your state deal with that?
The ONLY thing at issue is whether the government recognizes such unions, and what right/benefits are conferred by that joining. Getting government out of the business of treating married and single folks differently makes all of the Gay Marriage issues immediately moot...
But thank you for proving my point. You apparently want to use the Federal Government to promote YOUR social views, and are unwilling to give up a chance at that that power.
You want marriage defined from state to state?
Government should not be defining something that pre-dates its existence. I want them to stay out of the issue entirely. (Just as the Census form ought to have one question and only one blank to fill in, tax forms etc need never ask us about our love lives.) Why are you so insistent on keeping government in authority over how couples relate to each other?
I wasn't aware that polygamy was legal yet.
I know what marriage is and without federal law the radical left and liberaltarians will end marriage by making everything marriage and every corner of America will have to comply with whatever the most radical corner has passed because they will be forced to recognize marriages from other states.
Marriage does predate American government and if you meant that marriage (we don't know if marriage did, it may have been one of the reasons people formed law) predated the first government, then everything predated government including forced sex of weak females, child sex, and murder, but government has been defining marriage for at least five thousand years and the institution predates recorded history.