[Spunky]

Here is why we need an amendment.

I heard Senator Frist say today, the State of Massachusetts is likely to pass a State Constitutional Law recognizing Gay or Lesbian couples as married. Other states may pass a Law saying there is no marriage between Gays or Lesbians.

Now because each State has to recognize the Constitutional Law of another State all the Gays and Lesbians would go to Massachusetts, get married and then go back to their state and it would have to be accepted by that state.

So the Gays and Lesbians would have to be recognized in every state they live in as a married couple with all the benefits of a married couple even though the people of that state didn't want it that way.

This is the proposed Amendment

.......SECTION 1. Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman. Neither this Constitution or the constitution of any State, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups.'
Joint Resolution

[Luis Gonzalez]

"Now because each State has to recognize the Constitutional Law of another State all the Gays and Lesbians would go to Massachusetts, get married and then go back to their state and it would have to be accepted by that state."

Wrong, Frist needs to learn the law.

Read post #161.