[Jim Noble]

“You could have 300 million signatures”

You couldn’t get five million at this point in history. The time to do this was 1994 and the GOPe chickened out and passed DOMA instead.

It was possible to amend the Constitution then, and it would be impossible to repeal now.

That moment is gone.

[dbehsman]

You couldn’t get five million at this point in history. The time to do this was 1994 and the GOPe chickened out and passed DOMA instead.

It was possible to amend the Constitution then, and it would be impossible to repeal now.

I was just thinking about that yesterday morning, and I remember it well. Bill Clinton was saying that while of course he agreed that marriage is just between one man and one woman, he didn't like the idea of "mucking around" with the Constitution. A feeble argument if I ever heard of one, and an argument which the Republicans did not seize upon and bash Bill Clinton over his lying hypocritical head!

The liberal media said that it was preposterous to go for an amendment, because no one was pushing same sex marriage, and the attempt to pass a Constitutional amendment was just a political stunt by those "evil" Conservatives. The liberal media claimed that the Republicans were just looking for a nonexistent problem that did not need a solution, and that we should focus on other things.

Christian Conservatives were assured by the Republican party that this was not really worth pushing, we had a law and that was enough, amending the Constitution might make the liberal media hate the Republican party even more, and that there was no way that same sex marriage would ever become law of the land.

And now, here we are.