Your strategy has failed.
You’ve got nothing left to sell.
We are in complete agreement here.
Also the monster Entitlements yet that still happened as well as the 16th along with the Social Security Act where the feds explicitly defined marriage. Make that stuff unconstitutional (16th requires another Amendment) then originality will start to be restored.
We have to repeal the 17th, too. The States need representation in the Federal system.
Today, the feds expanded marriage, not draw the definition back.
Marriage was put into the realm of the feds via DOMA*, it really was overreach (9tn and 10th Amendments) — the terrible ruling was Prop 8, where they said [basically] that the only people with standing are government officials (who may be malfeasant or misfeasant or nonfeasant).
* Or, perhaps the Social Security Act as you observe.