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This is why now a Constitutional amendment makes sense. And there are enough states to ratify.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3036603/posts

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This is why now a Constitutional amendment makes sense. And there are enough states to ratify.

Nonsense.

That article is wishful-thinking claptrap.

She points to the number of states banning gay marriage, but that in no way guarantees that those states would ratify an amendment. The article is willfully blind to context. Raw numbers hide the truth: when were the bans passed, has the climate changed, and would such a ban pass today?

Look at a state like Colorado. They banned gay marriage in 2006, but the state has been moving increasingly libertarian (not to mention purple) since then. Would they ratify an amendment? Doubtful.

Then there's California. Nobody is seriously suggesting that Prop 8 could even pass today, much less a Constitutional Amendment.

Kidding ourselves doesn't help. We need clear eyes if we are to have any hope of turning this around. Ten years ago, we could have passed an Amendment. Now? Not a chance in you-know-where.